"Which direction does the village take?" One persisting hope of foreign and Chinese monitors is that as experience is gained with democracy at the bottom, similar elections will be required at the far more significant level of the township, where there is real authority over sensitive issues like taxes and land use.
In recent days, video messages to Mr. Khan's supporters showed him bedridden and wearing a large neck and back brace, appearing to accept his party's election disappointment even while vowing to get to the bottom of election fraud reports.
Pastor believes that, compared with other democracies, America is "somewhere near the bottom in election administration," and thinks that voter I.D.s make sense — but only if they are free and easily available to all, which, he points out, is not what Republican legislatures have proposed.
The state has what is known as "bottom up" election administration where the local counties are preeminent.
Long before they were invited into government, Mexican civic techies built specific mobile tools to transmit everything from top-down hurricane alerts; to two-way crime reports based on citizen tips; to bottom-up election-monitoring tips, with voters submitting cases of suspected fraud.
At bottom, the general election will confront New Jersey voters with a stark choice.
The gap between top and bottom in that election was 13.8%, very close to what it had been from 1976 to 2000, and he won in every group with a household income of more than $50,000 a year.
Normal candidates might have realized they were bumping along the bottom of their election – if not, their life – when video emerged of them bragging, as a newlywed, about forcing themselves on women, genitals and all.
When the late Dai Morris, a Welsh MEP, angered his whips in 1999, he was punished by being demoted to the bottom of the election list and thus condemned to lose his job.
This Democratic advantage was an anomaly, of course — Mississippi is that very deep red state at the bottom of your election map — and, although Childers was a conservative Democrat, his defeat this year at the hands of Republican Alan Nunnelee was more or less expected.
