Word: capping
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...power may have been cut in Cap Haitien, but the air in Haiti's second largest city on the evening of June 24 crackled with electricity. Within 12 hours, nearly every elective position in the country would be up for grabs as more than 10,000 candidates vied for 2,195 local offices and 101 seats in the legislature. That accounted for the scene outside the town's election center, where thousands of empty ballots were in trucks, waiting to be delivered to the polls. The ballots, however, weren't going anywhere because workers had already made their feelings plain...
...could scarcely blame them. When Haiti tried something like this in 1987, marauding army-backed death squads attacked voters with guns and machetes. The Cap Haitien workers knew, of course, that much had changed since then. President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was returned last October by the U.S. military after spending three years in exile. The military officers who ousted him had been driven into an exile of their own. And now a new civil society was taking root, nurtured by 6,000 U.N. peacekeepers, a host of relief groups and $1.2 billion in foreign...
Still the officials in Cap Haitien wouldn't budge, so international observers were forced to unload the ballots and wait until morning. At 5 a.m. a convoy of trucks careered through the streets in a last-minute distribution dash. The display was typical of the chaos that beset voting stations across the country. Ballot boxes turned up in the oddest places: stacked on street corners, stashed beneath poll workers' beds, tossed into ravines. But such irregularities are one thing; the gunshots, screams and sirens that have traditionally attended mass action in Haiti are another, and they were notably absent from...
...work? "There are lots of ways to look at data, and I haven't seen their report," she says, although a copy was sent to her last week. Charles Murray, who glowingly accepted O'Neill's work when it first appeared, now says, "I never thought some small family-cap disincentive would work. I think the key to what's happening here is the growing stigma that's attaching to illegitimacy across the population." The Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector, who more than anyone else used O'Neill's work to urge copycat laws elsewhere, says, "I never expected...
...federal politicians are pushing hardest to extend family caps everywhere. Missouri Representative Jim Talent is honest enough to say, "We may have to revisit the scholarly underpinnings of our argument, but on the other hand, everyone has a study, right?" Florida Representative Clay Shaw, who pushed the family cap through the House, simply ignores the Rutgers findings: "We have found through our studies that there are kids out there who are having children because of the cash they're going to receive...