Word: turnouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many as 100,000 Filipinos showed up to wave banners and shout, "Cory! Cory!" However, it was reported that some participants were bused in from the provinces, and the government's claim of a turnout of 1 million was hyperbole. But the crowd loved her performance. Said a bystander: "Now we can sleep at night...
...been emboldened by the response to their call for a two-hour strike last Monday. At the stroke of noon, millions of workers and students took to the streets, shutting down hundreds of enterprises, from huge steelworks to the local Fiat service agency. Not only was the astounding turnout a sharp rebuke to the country's leaders, but it was a warning that a few cosmetic changes within the Politburo would not satisfy the demands for a more democratic system...
...United States today, over half the eligible voters no longer vote for President and far fewer vote in off-year state and local elections. In fact, the United States now has the lowest voter turnout of any industrialized nation in the world, with the vast majority of poor and young people not voting. Further, in 1988, 99 percent of incumbent members of Congress were reelected. This strongly suggest that, due to the power of incumbency, our system of representative democracy has broken down completely and that election to Congress is now tantamount to lifetime tenure--a House of Lords...
Changes in this year's program have been implemented partially as a response to criticism of last winter's effort, students said. Many students have expressed mixed feelings about AWARE week, calling attention to what they described as a low turnout at the various speeches, films and forums held in February...
...addition, voters decided on a controversial ballot initiative known as Proposition 1-2-3, which would radicallyoverhaul the city's rent contol system. Observerssaid yesterday that 1-2-3 and the three vacancieshad contributed to a high voter turnout andpredicted overwhelming defeat for the referendum...