Word: voters
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...council uses a cumulative voting system, where in each round the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and his or her votes are transferred to each voter's next-choice candidate...
...these elections--and the House elections in the fall--are an embarrassment to an otherwise capable organization. Whatever the final numbers are tomorrow for voter turnout, this election season has been marked by council-mocking and general student apathy toward our elected government...
Levin is the author of several books, including The Alienated Voter: Politics in Boston (1960), two books on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), and Talk Radio and the American Dream...
...have learned over the years, the credibility that can be afforded by popular elections is far from guaranteed. The low voter turnout that has plagued previous council elections is indicative of the disconnect between the candidates and the student body. It signifies a lack of confidence in council leadership and a dangerous apathy toward the role student government occupies within the College community. At best, popular elections have only brought the council one step closer to a goal that still remains beneath the horizon...
...best when he is angry, not empathic. He blazes with indignation that 12,000 military families are on food stamps while Congress approves a $325 million aircraft carrier the Pentagon doesn't want. But when the subject turns to the dining-room-table issues that top every list of voter concerns--education, health care, moral values--McCain seems to lose some fire. In last week's debate, he took a question about how to fix HMOs--an issue as salient as they come--and not once but twice pivoted to talk instead about Internet taxation...