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...affiliations 8. There's still more counting to do; votes from Tehran weren't due to be counted until late Sunday, and about 50 closely-contested seats will have to wait for an April runoff to be decided. And counting won't be easy, not with an 83-percent turnout and ballots that can have up to 30 different names scrawled on them needing to be transcribed...
...South Carolina. But 19 days is a lifetime in this wild and woolly primary season. And Saturday, the all-important and ineffable "mo" swung back into Bush's corner, as the Texas governor chalked up a sizable victory in South Carolina, thanks in large part to a huge turnout among religious conservatives. A record number of South Carolinians showed up to vote...
...different. But when the choices actually mattered, like if Gandhi were running against Hitler, she would vote and have her presence felt. But an invisible voter is really no voter at all. The reason politicians usually don't court the youth vote is because they have a very low turnout. Better to cater to the retirees, the religious conservatives, the unions, who are hard to please but are guaranteed voters. And you wonder why special interests have taken over Washington...
...perennial problem with our student government is student disinterest. Voter turnout for the presidential election is less than 50 percent. Each year the council wonders how to increase the tie between the undergraduates the governing body that "represents" them. Perhaps a regular corner in The Crimson? Maybe each member should hold office hours? A newsletter published on the web? All these suggestions to no avail. The majority of students remain blissfully ignorant of what exactly the council does...
...were rejected by 55 percent of voters, despite Mugabe's attempt to woo his traditional peasant support base with a promise to nationalize the country's 4,000 white-owned commercial farms and turn them over to land-starved black small farmers. Unfortunately for Mugabe, the 25 percent national turnout suggests that rural voters had stayed home in large numbers - the peasantry may make a fine support base for a guerrilla war, but getting them to the polls can be a nightmare...