Word: turnouts
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...ballot is a genuine vote. The canvassing boards were put in the position of determining whether a hole was punched out or not. If you and I actually think votes don't count, we are less likely to vote. It seems as if many people believe that, or voter turnout would have been greater. DONNIE McLEMORE Round Rock, Texas...
...sleeping voters lie. The Democrats learned first-hand in Florida that turnout isn't everything. Thorough "get out the vote" drives produced record turnout thanks to first time voters, many of whom found themselves either fallen through the system's large cracks or somehow bewildered by the instructions that told them to punch through the cardboard and pick out the chad so the machine can read their vote...
Israelis don't vote for their leaders so much as against their opponents. And that makes an Ehud Barak-Ariel Sharon showdown for prime minister a tight contest, because both men have high negative ratings for their record in Israeli leadership. And with the likelihood of a much smaller turnout than in a full parliamentary election, the race may be too close to call despite Sharon's substantial lead in the polls...
Current President Fentrice D. Driskell '01 and her running-mate John A. Burton '01 were endorsed by the Black Students Association (BSA), the Black Men's Forum, Perspective and the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), among others, and turnout among these groups' constituencies was very high...
...election that saw the highest voter turnout since 1997, Gusmorino had 1,634 out of 3,061 votes cast in the final round of vote allocation. His closest opponent, Stephen N. Smith '02, finished second with 1,118 votes in the last round...