Sure enough, a week after our conversation, the governing African National Congress summoned him back to the national cause, voting him the party's deputy president by a landslide.
The statistician, Nicolas Hengartner, testified for the Democrats that there were statistical reasons to believe that problems with the punch-card voting method caused votes for president to be uncounted.
Mr. Montgomery represented Theresa LePore, the supervisor for elections for Palm Beach County, Fla., when she was being reviled and sued for the design of the county's "butterfly" ballot; it caused votes to be miscounted and played a key part in George W. Bush's 2000 election victory.
In the political ferment that followed the outbreak of the French revolution, James Losh was one of many who passionately advocated, among other causes, voting reform and education for all, including women.
At a time when Republicans feel perfectly comfortable advancing hopeless causes — voting to defund health care reform, say — it's nice to see someone from the other side trying the same trick with legislation that, if it ever actually passed, would actually do some good.
The retrogression standard applies irrespective of whether the voting change allegedly causes vote denial or vote dilution.
Free men and women serving on boards, debating great questions, fighting for causes, voting their conscience.
Voters skip races in which they wanted to vote, or they mark their ballots in ways that cause their votes not to be counted.
Arguing about Zambia, Baldwin (2013 807) has analyzed that, "…the political opinions of patrons do not cause voters to vote against their political interests but to alter their expectations about the performance of candidates in delivering local public goods and services".
As leader of the WSPU she championed the cause of votes for women and was jailed three times in 1908-09.She once issued a leaflet calling on people to "rush the House of Commons".
