Sinn Fein replicated its Westminster triumph in the local government ballot, increasing its number of councillors in the province's 26 councils from 74 in 1997 to 108, while the SDLP dropped from 120 to 117 councillors.
By exploiting this discontinuity, the paper finds that the dual ballot increases participation at the local polls by about 1 percentage point.
Edward J. Pozzuoli, the chairman of the Broward County Republican Party, said considering dimpled ballots "increases the subjectivity by tenfold" of workers.
He received 33 votes on the first ballot, which increased to 41 on the twentieth ballot.
We use a regression discontinuity design and panel data analysis to estimate the causal effect of campaign costs on candidate entry in Japan, where the amount of money required as a deposit for ballot access increased periodically to become one of the highest in the world, and a considerable part of campaign costs.
All of these ballot items increased the turnout of DFL-leaning voters.
The pace of ballot returns increased from a daily average of two thousand last week to ten thousand this week.
Lines were almost nonexistent, an outcome political activists ascribed variously to the fierce heat, lack of ballot papers, increased efficiency on behalf of the electoral commission, and voter apathy.
Lines were almost non-existent, an outcome political activists ascribed variously to the fierce heat, lack of ballot papers, increased efficiency on behalf of the electoral commission, and voter apathy.
The judges ultimately permitted the counting of three hundred and fifty-one rejected ballots, which increased Franken's lead by eighty-seven votes.
