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Beginning in mid-2016 in California and Washington, DC, ballot measures to raise minimum wages passed with overwhelming support.
Even assuming that Mikhail Kasyanov, Boris Nemtsov, and Democratic Party leader Andrei Bogdanov somehow collect two million signatures each to get on the ballot, the outcome will be the same.
When the Turkish Parliament attempted to elect the president on April 27, Gul did not receive enough votes to win on the first ballot.
In the Eastern Province, a good start has been made, with former terrorists now winning through the ballot box and not the bullet.
Indeed, the presidential election degenerated into a crude exercise in ballot rigging and voter intimidation.
His effort to use corruption charges to exclude from the election his vice president, Atiku Abububar, with whom he had been feuding since 2004, also failed when the Supreme Court ruled that Abububar’s name had to be restored to the ballot.
Obasanjo retains the backing of the army, some of whose members openly participated in stuffing ballot boxes and intimidating the opposition.
The value of the ballot is to seize power and then harass, detain, or even kill your opponents.
Democracy is not the exception, but the rule; military regimes have succumbed to the power of the ballot box; and guerrilla groups have largely become a relic of the past.
Despite repeated assurances, Islamist leaders have shown little interest in democracy beyond winning at the ballot box.
The same is true of ballot initiatives, referenda, and independent candidacies, all of which were non-existent until the recent reform.
Reelection is permitted only for candidates nominated by the same party for which they originally ran, and the enabling legislation for independent candidates, ballot initiatives, and referenda remains unclear.
The poor view the coup against Thaksin of 2006, and the later disbanding of his party, as revenge by the traditional elites who wanted the old ways back, and who would get what they wanted by force since they could no longer get it through the ballot box.
But, according to research by Robert Benewick, a professor at the University of Sussex in England, village elections have been growing more competitive, with a greater number of independent candidates and increasing use of the secret ballot.
About a decade ago, after the Enron and WorldCom scandals, America’s stock-market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), considered requiring that companies allow qualified shareholders to put their director nominees on the company-paid election ballot.
These negotiations will be much harder in view of the spectacular repudiation of a number of key governments at the ballot box, together with the potent rise of protest and Euroskeptic parties in several member states.
It is widely agreed that the top of a ballot influences races further down.
In order to create a peaceful, stable, and effective democratic system, electoral minorities must accept the ballot box as the arbiter of political legitimacy.
Nowadays, leaders are achieving the same end at the ballot box.
This same tendency is apparent in the anti-elite, anti-system rage that has erupted across Europe, reflected in the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum; the right-wing Alternative for Germany Party’s continued rise; far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen’s strong showing in the French presidential campaign; and the Austrian elections this year, where for the first time since World War II no “establishment” candidates made it to the final ballot.
The parliamentary polls, originally scheduled for April 2 but postponed a week after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed to print adequate ballot papers and other election materials, took place in an atmosphere of fear, violence, and uncertainty.
In democratic countries, if politicians who are critical of others while in opposition prove to be ineffective when in government, voters can - and often do - punish their dishonesty at the ballot box.
Its purpose was to ensure that the will of the public could not be fully expressed through the ballot box.
The two main parties, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), along with its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), were punished at the ballot box, after having governed as a grand coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel for the past four years.
For one thing, the Brexit decision may have looked simple on the ballot, but in truth no one knows what comes next after a leave vote.
The Resistible Rise of Marine Le PenPARIS – Watching the results of the second ballot in France’s regional elections on December 13, surrounded by my family, I was overpowered by a sense of relief, and even pride.
As the results of the ballot became clear, my eldest son leaned over and whispered into my ear: “It is in moments like these that it feels so good to be French.”
They might use the first ballot to express their anger at the government and discontent with the system, but they know that the FN is made up of incompetent extremists.
What Ukraine needs is a sharp reduction in corruption, as well as real legitimacy (through the ballot box) for people who want to rein in the influence of oligarchs – a group that has sapped the economy through plunder and incompetence over the past two decades.
As a result, the votes of millions of people who cast their ballot end up not counting.
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