Word: voter
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...other council news, a bill passed late last night will allow the council to organize voter registration drives for the upcoming Cambridge City Council elections
...have seen many martyrs make valiant attempts to rejuvenate the glorified dance committee. It was how soon the liberal reformers crashed that is so shocking. One PUCC organizer who was elected, Tobias B. Kasper '97, even acknowledged in an interview on Sunday that PUCC largely failed to significantly increase voter turnout...
...students who were either uncomfortable or felt they were incompetent around computers. Clearly, if an on-line voting booth was going to intimidate students into participating in a historically low-participation event, then it was not worth doing no matter what the benefits. This--not security or potential voter fraud, both of which can easily happen under a paper election--was our largest obstacle...
Three factors seem to play in favor of online voting. First, historically, lack of literacy has not been a major factor in the success of an election. Even considering the daunting task many faced of voting for someone whose name they could not read, voter participation in the late 19th century set records in this country, averaging over 70 percent. If true illiteracy did not prevent citizens from voting in the 1880's, then there is not much reason to believe that technical illiteracy would prevent the modern citizen (or Harvard student) from voting...
...going to be circulating voter guides which highlight candidates' stands on pro-family issues facing us," Potvin says, adding that the group is dedicated to ending the distribution of birth control devices at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School...