Because of the vagaries of the Green's ultra-democratic selection process, there's no guarantee Swarbrick will rank high enough on the party list to ensure she enters parliament come the election, but the initial signs look good.
"If senator Peris is not standing for election, Labor needs to come clean and say who will be No 1 on its Senate ticket in the Northern Territory and whether there will be a democratic pre-selection process or just another captain's pick," Scullion said.
But bias would be hard to disguise, and one other contender, Manuel Bartlett, has hinted that "party unity" could suffer unless the selection process is "democratic" and "equitable".
Only Mr. Obama and a handful of close and very discreet aides know where the vice-presidential selection process stands with the Democratic National Convention in Denver just a week away.
As CEO of the 46th Democratic National Convention, Kerrigan lead the site selection process for and the planning and execution of, what has been commonly referred to as, the most successful national political convention in modern history.
Our selection process is unique and democratic: each poem gets at least four editor-readers; the highest rated ones are brought to table and read aloud at our bimonthly meetings, then voted upon.
Boxer, who also was named to the Committee on Environment and Public Works, was the only woman and first-year senator who participated in the committee selection process this week by Democratic leaders.
Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota, whom Mr. Kerry considers one of his closest friends in the Senate, said he had talked up Mr. Edwards to James A. Johnson, the veteran Democratic operative who is directing Mr. Kerry's selection process.
The selection process did work as envisioned in Eastern Europe, the one region with an uptick in democratic governance.
The myth that New Yorkers choose their top trial judges by democratic election was exploded last week by a 77-page federal court decision striking down the clubhouse-controlled selection process for violating the rights of candidates and voters.
