ROB RICHIE Takoma Park, Md., Feb. 6, 2012 The writer is executive director of FairVote, which promotes election reform.
"So I am very glad that I have been able to meet the concerns of voluntary organisations, while ensuring that the bill still regulates effectively when organisations directly try to promote election candidates and parties".
Not just to promote elections, but to institutionalize pluralism and an existing form of federalism.
It's not only the aftermath of last January's earthquake that is troubling the still-embryonic democratic process in Haiti — although it's not easy to promote elections amid mass displacement and homelessness, to say nothing of all the electoral identification cards lost in goudou-goudou, the quake's onomatopoeic Creole nickname.
International and domestic policy makers often promote elections to establish village government in fragile states.
Promoting elections is generally a good thing even when they produce victories for democratic forces we disagree with.
Gregory succeeded in saving the Holy Roman Empire from disintegrating by promoting the election of Rudolf I of Habsburg as emperor.
It sent out letters promoting the election and appointment of sympathetic candidates and judges, and wrote annually to members of Congress to ask them to introduce an E.R.A. bill.
Mr. O'Reilly responded with his own attack two days later on his program, "The O'Reilly Factor," where he claimed that G.E., through MSNBC, was "promoting the election of Barack Obama and then seeking to profit from his policies".
His listing was related to the agency's creation of a 1964 ad that became famous as the "daisy commercial," promoting the election of President Lyndon B. Johnson by suggesting that his Republican opponent, Senator Barry M. Goldwater, was not to be trusted with nuclear weapons.
