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...course load this semester. But despite having attended a Delta Gamma sorority formal in Boston the previous night, he doesn’t appear to be affected by a lack of sleep. The thrust of this morning’s breakfast meeting is the issue of how to ensure voter turnout for the upcoming referendum. With Petersen planning to use the results as an advocacy tool in a push for a new College calendar, widespread student participation in the vote is crucial.Sundquist puts the issue to Tracy E. Nowski ’07, the former manager of the Petersen-Sundquist...
According to the UC Constitution, a referendum only has a binding effect on UC policy if it achieves a 25 percent turnout. But, said President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, every voter will be pursued...
...March that all French citizens should learn La Marseillaise). To some in Saint-Gilles, Sarkozy's allure is in his electability. "I'm voting for Sarkozy not only because I think he truly believes these policies are necessary," confides a retired Saint-Gilles farmer and past Le Pen voter who identifies himself only as André, "but also because Sarkozy has a far better chance of winning and applying them than Le Pen ever will." If that prediction is correct, this town so reviled for its politics in the past may turn out to have been simply ahead of its time...
...adult resident--including noncitizens--to vote for local offices. And since the election occurred at an odd time of year, officials took extra steps to get the word out. They mailed a notice, in Spanish and English, to every home. They sent a second notice to every registered voter. Yet when Election Day came, turnout was light, especially among noncitizens: not one of them cast a ballot...
...campaigns and if congressional district lines were drawn by citizens' commissions instead of partisan state legislatures, we would have less polarized politics. And if we moved Election Day from Tuesday (I'll bet you can't tell me why it's on Tuesday!) to the two-day weekend, our voter turnout would exceed its current ranking of 139th in the world. Certainly, we can regain the world's respect. Certainly, we can achieve balanced economic growth and assure all our citizens health care for their families, a good education for their children and security in their old age. The only...