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Another major issue is electronic voting. For the first time, first-years were allowed to vote via e-mail in the council's general elections this fall and posted record voter turnouts...
...longer we wait, the lower voter turnout is going to be, and without high turnout, we're not going to be any better off than we were before," she said...
Both parties still have to satisfy the voter whose main problem is the culture of Washington. George Cronk, 66, a retired autoworker now living in Ashley Falls, Massachusetts, voted for Clinton in '92 but went Republican last year. Now he tells the TIME/CNN pollsters he's headed back to the Democrats. "The Republicans made a lot of big promises,'' he says. "Once they got into power, they seemed to change. Term limits went out the door. They became what they replaced.'' Cronk was never a Perot voter, but he voices the big complaint of Perot's followers. For them, Republicans...
...temporary default on U.S. debt payment. Both could happen if the President vetoes the temporary debt-limit extension that the Republican Congress has put before him, and that requires him to approve their budget proposals. This is macho, partisan face-off time. If you're a Perot voter, or even if you're not, there could hardly be a better example of Beltway fecklessness...
Moreover, Peres will be racing against a deadline. He needs to have a settlement--or to have made significant progress toward one--that he can sell to Israeli voters in elections that must be held no later than next November. Peres could call the election as early as February, and some supporters want him to do so to take advantage of the postassassination surge in the polls. But knowing that voter sentiment can reverse itself in Israel almost overnight, the acting Prime Minister seems to prefer giving himself the full year to negotiate a peace that will...