Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mayor, an Independent who often provides the swing vote on zoning changes, reminded Wolf of the political situation and suggested that she be absolutely sure of the sixth vote before proceeding...
After the motion, City Clerk Joseph E. Connarton informed the council that Harvard--the largest property owner in the city--had objected, but that he had not yet determined if a seventh vote was necessary...
Most contoversial zoning changes in Cambridge cannot find even a sixth vote on the council, which is split on most issues between the four anti-development, CCA-backed councillors and four of the Independents...
...Duque, trails opposition candidate Guillermo Endara by more than 2 to 1. Yet U.S. officials and opposition leaders are convinced Duque will steal the election. They charge that evidence of government chicanery already abounds: manipulation of voter rolls to keep opponents from the polls, coercion of public employees to vote the government ticket, fraudulent registration practices that will permit Noriega boosters to cast multiple ballots...
...significance of a leadership shuffle that considerably strengthened the Soviet leader's position in his struggle against the party's conservative wing. In theory, the Central Committee functions as the party's most authoritative ruling body in the period between Communist Party congresses. It has the formal power to vote out the ruling Politburo, but it can replenish its own ranks only when a congress is convened. With the next regular congress scheduled for 1991, the Soviet leader had to be content, for the moment, with promoting 24 junior members of the present body from candidate to voting members. Though...