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Last October, TIME used Lori Lucas, a single mother in Shrewsbury, Missouri, to personify the suburban swing voter courted by all parties in this year's presidential election. Lucas, like many fellow moms, was undecided when she appeared on our cover. Afterward, she began researching the candidates at the local library and decided against Bill Clinton because of the character issue. Says she: "I think he is crooked, more so than I'm willing to put up with." (She was somewhat bewildered at TIME readers who assumed that "because I smoked pot [in high school] and had a baby...
INDICTED. WES COOLEY, 64, Republican U.S. Representative from Oregon; on charges he lied about serving in Korea in his state's voter-education pamphlet; in Salem, Oregon...
...voting districts reporting, President Rawlings was leading with 57 percent, while John Agyekum Kufuor had 39 percent of the vote. Rawlings, who first seized power in a 1979 coup, ruled over a single-party state until winning the 1992 elections with nearly 59 percent of the vote. Voter turnout was estimated at 65 percent to 70 percent of Ghana's 9.2 million eligible voters. Despite protests of election fraud by Kufuor supporters, international observers said there was no indication of manipulation of the vote. Rawlings has been praised for launching an austerity program in the early 1980s that gave Ghana...
...time to reassess the process by which America votes for its leader. The current system distorts our candidates' priorities, objectives and motives and the narrow political, geographic and economic issues they tackle. We cannot ask ourselves why voter turnout is so low if we do not have a system in which each and every vote truly is equal. BENNETT SHULDMAN Moscow...
...maintain and promote democracy in the face of diminishing voter participation? An obvious step is to simplify the mechanics of voting. It has become too complicated and time consuming, both in understanding the issues beforehand and in casting a vote. Being locked into a certain place to vote or the complications of absentee balloting are still obstacles. For the 57 years we have been married, my wife and I have exercised our voting privileges, rain or shine, but we were sorely tempted this election to forgo that right. The numerous propositions and initiatives, the widely differing backgrounds and experience...