Word: voter
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However, demanding sacrifice is so politically harmful that these senators bit their lips until they knew the measure had passed and then voted no as a hedge against the plan's possible failure and the inevitable voter dissatisfaction it would provoke...
Future Congresses will be more likely to beat a hasty retreat at the first sign of voter discontent with the package because it did not enjoy universal support from the Democratic party...
...elected officials accountable. We dedicate ourselves to educate the local electorate to the pressing issues facing our city and to attempt to broaden participation in the electoral process by reaching out to those who don't traditionally participate in the election process. To this end, we will sponsor voter registration drives to increase participation in and understanding of the political process...
...field -- columnists for the Nation, for instance, or resident thinkers at Washington's Institute for Policy Studies -- and they'll tell you there hasn't been any lurching in their direction. A few tentative little steps perhaps -- abolition of the "gag rule" on abortions, the signing of the "motor voter" and family-leave bills, some vague reformist intentions here and there -- followed by an inexorable stagger to the right. Even after all the bean counting, for example, and despite the near appointment of Lani Guinier, Clinton is surrounded with moderate white fellows like Bentsen, Rubin, Panetta and Christopher...
...proposed solutions are complicated, at least compared with conventional electoral rules. One remedy is "cumulative voting," in which every voter would be given as many votes as there are seats available. For example, if there were five city-council members, each voter would have five votes. That measure, says Guinier, would allow black voters to cast all their ballots for a black candidate, consolidating their power. Dozens of communities, mainly in Alabama, have already used such schemes. A more drastic remedy would be a "minority veto," which would allow judges to give black legislators the power to veto a measure...