Word: voter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...previous years, low voter turnout was rampant in this year's council elections, many of which were uncontested...
Council officials chalked up the low voter turnout to student alienation from the council...
...opinion, lack of voter turnout occurred because people seem to think that the council is a living joke, that it doesn't have a particular influence in their lives," said Jeffrey E. Zinsmeister '00, a Winthrop resident. Zinsmeister, who dropped out of the race too late to remove his name from the ballot and won the uncontested election, said he plans to resign from the council immediately...
Opponents of randomization, the College housing policy that has assigned upperclass students to the Houses by lottery for three years, initially blamed Harvard's policy for eroding House spirit and causing voter apathy. But House Committee leaders disputed this view...
...though the delay may have hurt some candidates, Brian A. Chernoff '01 said the low voter turnout helped him win aseat as a write-in candidate...