Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former Socialist mayor of Burlington, Vt. spoke at Dudley House last night, calling for Americans who seek to address the concerns of the poor and working classes to vote a third party into the political mainstream...
...Half of the people in America don't vote," Sanders said, asserting that a democratic socialist party would unite and serve groups that typically do not vote in large numbers, and are traditionally ignored by the Republican and Democratic parties...
...Sanders said an increase in voters would expand the democratic process. "Even if the Socialist Party only got 10 percent of the vote, the people in power in Washington would have to listen," he said...
...attempts of Walsh and Today's Independents to make the ballot initiative the central campaign issue may have ended up hurting the referendum's quiet supporters. Sullivan, for years the city's top vote-getter, ran a distant third in this year's campaign...
Elections for an independent Namibia were less than a week away when South Africa, which has controlled the country for 74 years, called foul. Pretoria dramatically claimed that hundreds of Marxist SWAPO guerrillas were infiltrating illegally into the country, posing a serious threat to a free and fair vote. Claiming to have "monitored" internal messages from a United Nations group supervising the election, South Africa suggested that the unit was reluctant to act against SWAPO. Vowing to "take whatever steps would be required," South Africa put its own troops on alert...