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Dobb's flippant truisms flames a grass-root movement that puts him on the ballot.
I probably doubled my knowledge of Iran when I saw Secret Ballot (2001).
It was far and away the favourite-of-show (winning Best in Show by the judging panel, and - ballot tabulation not having been posted, I can only guess, but probably - audience favourite as well).
The most revealing parts, however, come towards the end of the film, when we see massively long lines of African-American voters waiting to cast their ballot whilst Anglo voters waltz into the polling place and vote within seconds.
As a cruel joke, Rick rigs the ballot box so that Angus is nominated for king of the winter ball.
Clearly Herzlinger and his pals have been stuffing the ballot box as NO ONE would find this to be a great, "inspiring" film.
As a result, the explosive potential of caste division also has been channeled through the ballot box, with the lowest of the low attaining high office.
When the ballot counting was completed, Pinochet's continuation had been rejected by a margin of 55% to 43% (the remaining votes were blank or invalid).
While domestic issues might be uppermost in voters’ minds, Harvey, Florence, and other extreme weather events have made global warming a local issue and placed it squarely on the ballot.
In practice, what is compulsory is not casting a valid vote, but going to the polling place, having one’s name checked off, and putting a ballot paper in the box.
The secrecy of the ballot makes it impossible to prevent people writing nonsense on their ballot papers or leaving them blank.
When voting is voluntary, and the chance that the result will be determined by any single person’s vote is extremely low, even the smallest cost – for example, the time it takes to stroll down to the polling place, wait in line, and cast a ballot – is sufficient to make voting seem irrational.
Others are motivated by a sense of civic duty that does not assess the rationality of voting in terms of the possible impact of one’s own ballot.
Having failed at the ballot box, they may – in traditional French revolutionary fashion – resort to “the barricades.”
At its heart lay a simple proposition: the republicans, who called for and bombed for a United Ireland – hammering together the predominantly Protestant North and the overwhelmingly Catholic South – accepted that constitutional change could come only through the ballot box.
Since the council’s legitimacy stems exclusively from Libyan good will and blind faith, rather than from success at the ballot box, this could be devastating.
In fact, the “no” campaign’s victory might have been even more resounding if the Westminster establishment’s desperate, last-minute offer to grant Scotland more powers on taxation, spending, and welfare had been included as an option in the ballot.
This year, one of the issues on the ballot was an act to prohibit tethering or confining a pregnant pig, or a calf raised for veal, in a manner that prevents the animal from turning around freely, lying down, and fully extending his or her limbs.
Then, in 2002, animal welfare advocates put a proposal to ban sow stalls on the ballot in Florida.
So, when Western leaders ask Arabs and others in the region why they can’t govern themselves, they should be prepared for the answer: “For a full century, your interventions have undermined democratic institutions (by rejecting the results of the ballot box in Algeria, Palestine, Egypt, and elsewhere); stoked repeated and now chronic wars; armed the most violent jihadists for your cynical bidding; and created a killing field that today stretches from Bamako to Kabul.”
Third, the US and Europe should accept the reality that democracy in the Middle East will produce many Islamist victories at the ballot box.
They will be overturned at the next ballot, or in the streets, or even by local generals.
Business itself wasn’t on the ballot.
So the ruling elite engineered a coup to secure the power they had failed to win at the ballot box.
The group’s first task is simply to win the right to put a candidate on the ballot in all 50 US states to run against the conventional slate of one Democrat and one Republican.
It turns out that most state bureaucracies, theoretically accountable to the public, in fact are accountable to the parties, and do everything they can to keep Americans Elect from claiming its right to a spot on the ballot next fall.
And in 24 states, voters can propose ballot initiatives to change districting rules and limit the impact of gerrymandering.
Voters in California and Arizona have already done so, and similar measures will likely be on the ballot in other states in 2018 or 2020.
Similarly, at the state level, legislative supermajorities, arbitrary thresholds for passing budget and tax measures, and ballot initiatives financed by special interests can all impede bipartisan problem solving.
Indians know that they can use other means – debates in Parliament, political alliance-making, and eventually the ballot box – to bring about the changes they desire.
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