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Any appropriate measure to remove the danger – the ballot box, impeachment, or invocation of the US Constitution’s 25th Amendment – would help restore our safety.
And in Tharparkar, an impoverished part of Sindh province, a female candidate is on the ballot for the first time ever.
Female candidates may be on the ballot, but that does not mean women will vote for them – if they vote at all.
During the last general election, in 2013, female voter turnout was less than 10% at 800 polling stations across the country, and in 17 districts, fewer than 5% of eligible female voters cast a ballot.
By that, he meant no violence and no doctoring the ballot count.
The “no” vote not only forestalled attempts by President Mwai Kibaki and his inner circle to tighten their grip on power, but it also confirmed to ordinary Kenyans the power of the ballot box.
But ordinary people rejected Kibaki’s power play, reclaiming their nation’s path through the ballot box – an idea that is still almost unheard of in the Kenyan context.
The poor and the oppressed may not have much, but they do have the numbers, which is what matters at the ballot box.
The Revolution RebornMEXICO CITY – In El Salvador, for the first time ever in Latin America, a former political-military organization that tried to gain power through the barrel of a gun has achieved its aims through the ballot box.
The lesson of the first ballot of 2002, which saw a high level of abstention and the surprise elimination of the Socialist Lionel Jospin, partly explains that mobilization.
With 31% of the vote he will come to the second ballot in a very favorable position.
In order to have a serious chance to win, she has to transform the second ballot into a referendum against Nicolas Sarkozy.
In the second ballot of France’s presidential elections, he will prove to be a Queen or more like a King maker.
On May 6, the date of the second ballot, French citizens will choose between two risks.
Soon after a majority of Mexico’s voters backed my candidacy at the ballot box, my team met with the leaders of the country’s three main political forces to define a common reform agenda and a collaborative framework to realize it.
Governments fail and the people replace them at the ballot box.
For his part, AMLO has spent his transition period introducing pro forma ballot initiatives to reverse major decisions such as the construction of a new airport outside Mexico City.
India was also the first country to use an indelible stain on the voter’s fingernail to signify that he has already cast his ballot.
There was a time when, in certain parts of India, workers could stuff ballot boxes for a candidate and political parties could “capture” polling booths.
Indeed, many FARC defectors now prefer to fight for their cause at the ballot box under the new left-wing Polo Alternativo Democratico.
Popular frustration may not wait for the ballot box.
If they chose to forego the advantages of European financial integration, they would have to explain that decision to voters, who could then express their approval or disapproval at the ballot box and, of course, through their investment decisions.
People in the streets increasingly fear that they will never get to cast their ballot or have their say.
The lessons of Asia’s financial crisis and its current political crisis seem clear: in economics, removing government intervention without establishing needed institutional preconditions may deliver crisis, not growth; in politics, credible institutions to check and balance each other are as vital to democratic stability as the ballot box.
For these countries, honest competition at the ballot box, free and open debate, and respect for minority rights – the foundation of liberal democracy – are not currently on the agenda.
Popular revolts – in the streets and at the ballot box – have so far failed to deliver an alternative governing framework that offers credible solutions to the political, social, and economic problems that have engulfed Western and Middle Eastern societies.
These people are now making their voices heard at the ballot box, and we need to listen to them, and respond to their concerns.
The Islamists must have representation in order to ensure that they do not renounce the ballot box as a means of pursuing their objectives.
Brown’s ballot initiative this November would raise California’s top personal income-tax rate to 13.3%, the nation’s highest.
For example, a group called Calexit is trying to introduce a California ballot proposition to secede from the US.
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