When the state conducted a referendum on building a new football stadium in Seattle in 1997, 27 of its 39 counties conducted the entire election by mail.
Mr Chen has said he would like to conduct a referendum in 2006 to gain approval for a new constitution for the island.
A government commission gathered 17,000 signatures from Chechens and Russian soldiers in the republic, just more than the legal requirement to conduct a referendum.
He said that a referendum on independence could happen next year, or even this year: "Our priority now is to defeat ISIS and to create an environment fit to conduct a referendum".
"Under the present circumstance, how can you conduct a referendum or an election when chaos is reigning and you have protests everywhere?" Amr Moussa, a former foreign minister under Mr. Mubarak and now an opposition leader, asked in an interview Saturday.
As the announced elections approached, the government conducted a referendum on Nov. 30, 1980, on a new constitution that would have institutionalized the role of the armed forces in a "restricted democracy".
The Board of Education and opponents of school privatization settled a legal dispute last night over how to conduct a referendum on turning over five public schools to a private company, according to the lawyer for the opponents.
People are used to them by now but are unhappy with their presence as they are yet to fulfill their mission to conduct a referendum allowing us to choose between integration with Morocco, autonomy and independence.
As part of the deal, Morocco was supposed to conduct a referendum for Sahrawis to decide whether they wanted to be part of an independent nation or remain under Moroccan rule.
The 4,000 eligible voters of the Seneca Indian Nation of New York conducted a referendum yesterday on a proposal to open the tribe's third gambling casino, this one on its Allegany Reservation in western New York.
