Word: voting
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Less than a mile away at Likud headquarters, the party faithful watched the vote count click toward 40 and then stall. The party of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was not even close to the 61 needed to form a majority government in the 120-seat Knesset. Once again a divided electorate had voted Israel into political stalemate. Likud leaders began feverishly calculating potential coalitions. Declared a Likud activist: "My God, the rabbis have...
That third bloc could materialize because Israel's cumbersome proportional- representation system allocates disproportionate political power to small parties -- a mere 1% of the popular vote, roughly 20,000 ballots, can yield a Knesset seat. Once again the system prevented the country from electing a strong, united government. As Gad Ya'acobi, a Laborite and Minister of Economics and Planning, noted, "We have institutionalized the tyranny of the minority." To put together a slim majority, Shamir will have to accommodate not only the four religious parties but also three extreme-right secular factions whose platforms all advocate annexing the occupied...
...Graham takes her complaints about the voting procedures to court, she may have a hard time proving her case. Although Thompson received little more than 50 percent of all ballots cast--leaving open the possibility that nearly half of the voters intended to vote for Graham--in past elections it has been common for voters not to express a preference in local races...
...first ever politically-oriented discussion, the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) last night debated and postponed a vote to urge Harvard to pursue a more aggressive policy of minority recruitment than currently exists...
...proposal will be discussed again at an open meeting Wednesday night, and will be decided by vote on Friday. "People wanted a little more time to reflect on it," said John Young '87-'89, president of HRCF...