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...Turnout for the election was 43 percent of the student body, down slightly from last year's 46 percent, but much higher than the 25 percent who voted in this fall's election of council representatives. The total number of votes...
...voting will run until Saturday at 5 p.m. The referenda need to achieve a 25 percent turnout for the issues to be binding on the council...
However, some supporters of the referenda fear that the separate vote on the questions will not achieve the 25 percent turnout necessary to make the results binding...
...voting districts reporting, President Rawlings was leading with 57 percent, while John Agyekum Kufuor had 39 percent of the vote. Rawlings, who first seized power in a 1979 coup, ruled over a single-party state until winning the 1992 elections with nearly 59 percent of the vote. Voter turnout was estimated at 65 percent to 70 percent of Ghana's 9.2 million eligible voters. Despite protests of election fraud by Kufuor supporters, international observers said there was no indication of manipulation of the vote. Rawlings has been praised for launching an austerity program in the early 1980s that gave Ghana...
...time to reassess the process by which America votes for its leader. The current system distorts our candidates' priorities, objectives and motives and the narrow political, geographic and economic issues they tackle. We cannot ask ourselves why voter turnout is so low if we do not have a system in which each and every vote truly is equal. BENNETT SHULDMAN Moscow...