Word: balloting
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...particularly ironic that Lewis is taking steps to raise the term bill fee now, when the council's presidential election will take place in less than a week. It would have been a simple thing to place a term bill referendum on the ballot. When students are requested to pay more for student groups, is it so much to ask that they be consulted first...
Nationwide, Canadian candidates appear in the same order on the ballots. This enables national newspapers as well as TV stations to show the ballots well in advance of the actual election day, reducing a chance that a confusing Palm Beach County ballot could sway an election. Another feature of the Canadian election system is that no precincts are larger than 500 people, making hand-counts and possible recounts much more viable...
Congress and the National Association of Secretaries of State are now weighing their options regarding such ballot standardization measures. Although Congress cannot mandate every needed change in voting procedures, it can provide the guidance and funding that states need to make sure that the electoral process accurately reports the choices of all Americans...
...Florida Supremes are back to being the veep's last best shot at the White House after Leon County court spokesman Terre Cass, at 2:15 p.m., finally delivered twin rulings from judges Terry Lewis and Nikki Clark on the Martin County and Seminole County absentee ballot application cases. The punishment, said the judges, didn't fit the crime...
...which for the past two days shuttled back and forth between Lewis and Clark's courtrooms as the supposedly one-day trials dragged on and on. The basic facts were never in dispute: Two Republican supervisors of elections had allowed Republican party workers access to two stacks of absentee ballot applications, in order to fill in voter ID numbers - left off the forms by a printing error - and save the applications from the trash. (A similar case in Bay County was thrown out of a lower court Thursday...