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With only 40% of U.S. citizens showing up at the polls, the results of this election can hardly be called a mandate [ELECTION 2002, Nov. 18]. We should make Election Day a national holiday and push voter participation to--gasp!--50% or 60%. Only then could the words mandate and triumph be used honestly. MAGGIE DONALDSON Seattle...
They said their proactive approach would include a national voter-registration drive leading up to the 2004 elections and more debate events throughout the year...
...views. "He's my heart and soul," explains Ilinka Tasic, 50, kissing Seselj's silver-haired likeness at a vegetable market overlooking the Danube. "He is a true patriot." Authoritarian politics still has an audience in Serbia. But Seselj's re-emergence reflects a more general frustration among Serbian voters with their democratically elected leadership, which, two years after Milosevic's ouster, has yet to produce the kind of economic results that many Serbs had hoped for. Seselj insists he is running to flush out corruption and succor the poor. But for Serbs like Nikola Barovic, a human rights lawyer...
...registered voter in the city of Cambridge, have power,” Graham said. “Power concedes to nothing but power...
Harvard’s lack of bad losses compared to Rhode Island’s losses to teams well off the NCAA radar—Brown, St. Bonaventure and New Hampshire—led to a majority of rational human voters ranking Harvard ahead of the Rams in both polls. But the NCAA selection criteria led to a different result than voter opinion...