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...administration can justifiably say that [U.C. members] don't represent the students because such a low percentage of the student body voted us to this position," said E. Sonny Elizondo '00, co-chair of the U.C. election commission. Turnout at recent U.C. elections has hovered around only a third of the undergraduate body...
Although last night's turnout was small, the board of directors said they remained optimistic that more students will become involved...
...casting ballots. An average of just 44.1% of the voting-age population has turned out for national legislative elections in the 1990s, putting the U.S. in 139th place among 163 countries surveyed by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. The top-ranked nation? Malta, with a turnout of 96.2%. Here's how some other democracies stack...
...whether the agent had a right to act that way. But for such a system to function, it sems crucial that citizens know and be able to defend their liberties. As I spend hours a day listening to people complain of injustice, I am struck by simultaneously-low voter turnout, daily grumbling overheard on the train about mandatory jury duty and ubiquitous public opinion polls that show Americans are unhappy with their goernment, their society and their lives. Make no mistake: it is not the endless calls for help that bother me, but rather the fact that they...
ALGIERS: A weaker than hoped-for turnout gave Algerian President Liamine Zeroual's party 150 seats in the country's first elections since 1992. But fundamentalist parties captured 103 seats, giving the country's Islamic movement a potentially important foothold once again in Algerian politics. More than 60,000 have been killed in the struggle between the government and the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) since the Islamic party, which looked sure to gain control of the government in the 1992 elections, was outlawed after an army coup. Although the FIS is still party non grata, Zeroual has agreed to allow...