Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...than in the U.S. Youngsters are picketing supermarkets, boycotting restaurants and writing Congressmen, sometimes on recycled paper they have painstakingly mixed, pressed and dried themselves. The White House reports that it receives hundreds of environmental entreaties every day from citizens too young to make their views known in the ballot...
...defeat of the environmental ballot initiatives provides an opportunity for interest groups to rethink their approach to environmental issues. Many citizens are tired of being asked to become lawmakers when they enter voting booths and decide on the merits of intricate policy questions that are supposed to be the province of Congress and state legislatures. Environmentalists might also reconsider their tendency to favor more government regulation as the answer to most ecological problems. In Washington State voters rejected a ballot initiative that would have put curbs on development, partly because they feared it would mean new government intrusions into their...
...M.P.s gathered in the House of Commons' lobby and awaited the result: Major got 185 votes, Heseltine 131, Hurd 56. As it became clear that Major had missed a majority by only two votes, a large groan of frustration rose up. The prospect of a third ballot was too much to bear after the tension-filled days of the previous three weeks...
...election was to be the stirring climax to 13 months of breathtaking change. As the first all-German ballot since 1932, when Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party won a plurality, Sunday's vote was portrayed as the ultimate moment of a historical closure. A little more than a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and two months after unification, the polling for a new Bundestag would be a celebration of democracy and the end to years of division...
...well about a kind of democracy fatigue. Sunday was the fourth time they were going to the polls since March, when East Germany elected its first post-Communist parliament. In Brandenburg some said they were tired of campaigns and elections; others that they felt their votes, amid millions of ballots, counted for nothing. In an open-air market run by unemployed workers, one woman, retaining the old reluctance to give her name, dismissed any worry about absenteeism. Casting an eye backward in time, she said, "Of course they'll vote. It's a secret ballot...