Word: voters
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...begin with, I strongly urge the council to place the question of how to allocate the $40,000 before the student body in a referendum vote. Furthermore, as voter turnout in recent computerized council elections has been deplorable I urge the council to conduct the referendum by hand. Send representatives into dining halls. Place them in strategic locations in front of the Science Center and other academic buildings. Make them available to explain and answer questions about the various proposals. And most importantly, leave room for students to express their own ideas as to where the funds should be directed...
...last Ivy Council conference (held for delegates from all Ivy League undergraduate student governments), the relationship between student governments and undergraduates was discussed. The common problems were that the student governments lacked respect from students, voter turnout was low (although Harvard has the highest turnout in presidential elections in the Ivy League), and few people believed that their governments had any effectiveness in determining university policies...
...argued for total war--a party-line vote to proceed however they chose. The Democrats were doing Clinton's bidding, they argued, and would never go along with a bipartisan deal; they were counting on a long trial to make Republicans look partisan and obsessed. The fear of a voter backlash was no reason to abandon principle. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who won with just 49% of the vote in 1994, told the conference, "I'm up in 2000. And if you read the papers, I'm an endangered Republican species. But I'm not worried about that...
...native Illinois. Second, New York has astonishingly loose residency requirements: all she has to do is live there on Election Day--maybe in a nice hotel suite. Other states are less accommodating. Illinois demands you live there at least 30 days and be a registered Illinois voter, while Arkansas exacts from its Senators a harsh two years of residency. All of which may put Hillary in a New York state of mind...
...pages chronicle Franken's fictitious run for the democratic presidential nomination in 2000. He hires Norm Ornstein (fellow at the American Enterprise Institute), Dick Morris (political consultant) and Dan Haggerty (Grizzly Adams) to build a highly successful campaign around eliminating ATM fees. Perhaps he's mocking the American voter, or the election system, or even himself. Whatever his point, doggonit, it's sharper than making fun of 12-step gurus...