He had been warned that, if he tried, the separatists were "waiting for him": in other words he could be abducted, beaten or worse.There has been no campaigning in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and posters mainly for only two candidates, one from Mr Yanukovich's party.
But the judge approved the village's proposal: a rarely used process known as cumulative voting, in which each voter has six votes to cast any way he likes -- say, one vote each for six candidates or six votes for only one candidate.
Garfield eloquently defended dissenting West Virginia delegates in his speech against Sen. Roscoe Conkling's convention rule that stated all state delegates must vote unanimously for only one candidate.
One can imagine Steven Spielberg trying to choose 10 best-picture nominees, while naming only five candidates for best director.
Word soon leaked that Icahn would offer only five candidates for the Time Warner board — not fourteen — and none of them familiar names.
At a forum for local candidates in a room adjacent to the mayoral forum, for example, only two candidates for Queens borough president showed up.
On the question of whom they would have voted for with only two candidates on the ballot, 3percentt of those who said they would have voted for Mr. Gore voted for Mr. Nader, and only 2percentt of voters who said they would have voted for Mr. Bush voted for Mr. Nader.
For instance, Japan accepted only eleven candidates out of 5000 asylum applications in 2014.
In Los Angeles County, a lack of competition for seats caused the cancellation of elections in 16 school or community college districts, 15 special districts and two cities -- Hawaiian Gardens, where only two people filed for two City Council seats, and Rolling Hills Estates, which attracted only three candidates for three seats on the five-member City Council.
If there are only two candidates, for example, it doesn't make sense for a voter to do anything other than give the highest possible score to the preferred candidate and the lowest score to the other candidate.
