Word: ballots
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There were a few twists to the vote, however. At the beginning of the meeting, Born, Braude and Davis voted not to take another round of voting, and once the vote had been taken Galluccio, Maher and Toomey voted to continue with a third ballot for mayor...
...them get away with it. In order to eliminate this bad precedent and reward the other candidates for obeying the rules, Driskell and Burton should be disqualified from the council elections. The results of the election should be recalculated as though Driskell and Burton had never been on the ballot, with their votes redistributed and a new president and vice president should be seated at Sunday's council meeting based on the results. If the commission doesn't act to disqualify them, Driskell and Burton must themselves step down out of respect to the other candidates who chose to abide...
...passing power from its first democratically elected President to its second, then the country's direction will be in the hands of a new elected President and Duma, as well as the thousands of elected officials who now run local governments. Multiple parties vie for power through the ballot box. There are some 65,000 nongovernmental organizations and approximately 900,000 private businesses where there were none a decade ago. A pluralist political system and civil society, competing in the world markets and plugged into the Internet, have emerged from a totalitarian monolith that was closed off from the outside...