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...think any of this supposed voter disenfranchisement contributed to a win for the Republicans...
...army troops and police were placed on alert on election day. A dynamite blast, blamed by police on guerrillas in the central Andes city of Huancayo, killed two children and wounded four other people. But a call by Sendero Luminoso to boycott the election went unheeded, and voter participation in the Andean regions was believed to be heavier than ever before. Said Writer Mario Vargas Llosa: "APRA was seen by many as the best defense against the extreme left...
...Socialist government." While analysts believe FI has a good chance of winning seats in Parliament in 2006, they also predict that it could be a one-off performance. Single-issue parties rarely live long. But this prospect doesn't deter Schyman. "We are asking for the voter's mandate to use the parliamentary system to break down the patriarchal power structure. Once that is done, our party is no longer needed." But since the SDP has launched a rival women's interest group, FI won't have to dismantle the patriarchy alone...
...word "fear" eight times, as in "I want to make yobs fear the police." The association of police chiefs criticized the Tories' use of crime statistics, and Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said he hoped the campaign would not become "a competition about who can most effectively frighten voters." But Howard's appeals to popular anger are designed to capitalize on Labour's most acute vulnerability: low turnout. The British Elections Study ( BES), a highly respected academic probe of voter behavior, has just completed face-to-face interviews with some 3,000 people. Using the same methodology that correctly...
...Pima County board of supervisors ratified the plan, dubbed the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, and last year the county proposed a $174 million bond issue to buy up open land for conservation. The measure passed easily, with 65% voter approval. Under the plan, the county allows concentrated growth in designated areas while preserving swaths of open space in environmentally sensitive core areas in a large ring around Tucson. That open space preserves the characteristic desert vistas while providing corridors for wildlife to move around the edges of housing areas. Huckelberry aims to preserve 263,880 acres in that...