Unable to meet that deadline, Nepal's special legislative body extended the deadline and left the country in the hands of a caretaker prime minister until lawmakers could elect someone for the job.
But many of his supporters have expressed distrust of Clinton, and could elect to vote for a third-party candidate, such as the Green party's Jill Stein.
Alaska could elect a candidate for Congress who's never been to the state.
But with new district boundaries and no candidate anointed by Democratic Party leaders to fill the Congressional seat vacated by Mr. Jackson, others believe churches will be a crucial campaign battleground for winning black votes in a district that could elect a white candidate for the first time in three decades.
AS THINGS stand, Indonesian voters could elect their president directly for the first time in 2004.
Not a single person thought it was important that the US could elect a female president for the first time in its 240-year history.
In this season of the lockout, with needs on the defensive line and at safety, and with three key receivers potentially free agents, he could elect to draft players for specific positions.
In Atlanta, Mary Norwood, the front-runner whose success has raised the possibility that the city could elect a white mayor for the first time since 1973, will compete in a Dec. 1 runoff with her closest competitor, Kasim Reed, a black lawyer and former state legislator.
If the American public could elect a governing body for the Internet, candidates would include the Pope, William H. Gates, Oprah Winfrey, teachers, ex-hackers and "regular folks," according to the first major study of public attitudes about accountability on the Internet, to be released today by the Markle Foundation, a nonprofit group that focuses on public policy and technology.
A donor could elect to cover the cost of, for example, emergency transportation for a woman in a rural area to a health clinic or hospital or to pay for training of a local health care worker in obstetrics.
