Ensuring better governance by building firm institutions is harder than putting ballots in a box.Reformers have plenty of reasons to be hopeful, among them the growing sophistication of opposition groups.
"They jumped from the defensive side to the offensive side in the whole homosexual-marriage issue," Armey told me, explaining that, in his view, Republicans overreached by putting ballot measures forward to define marriage.
When you put your ballot in the ballot box, all of us are equal — rich, poor, white, Hispanic, Asian, skinny, ugly.
Court officials put the ballots in the vault, along with those from Palm Beach County.
Some people had put their ballots in the wrong box; in fact the candidate of the ruling Democratic Party was ahead, by 81 votes.
Patsy was elected city assessor by having his own name put on ballots marked for his opponent, thus rendering them invalid.
LEARNED HAND When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are by that act inoculated against the feeling that the gov- ernment is not theirs.
And it's been very forward in how the Internet is used by the general population: in its last parliamentary election in 2011, nearly one quarter of voters put in ballots online and via mobile phones.
As economist John K. Galbraith wrote, "When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are by that act inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs.
"That is, unless I take my surplus campaign funds and put a ballot initiative on the November ballot to allow four-term governors to seek a final, fifth term".
