Once Boris N. Yeltsin was returned by a popular vote to the presidency of Russia, the Soviet Union and Gorbachev, who had never been democratically elected to its presidency, became undermined.
He was returned by a fair majority.
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, the council of the Western Isles, based in Stornoway on Lewis, reported a similar record turnout, with 87% of postal votes returned by mid afternoon, and others expected to hand theirs into polling stations.
In many other democracies, voters can only vote at one location and are unable to vote remotely – postal voting is either unavailable or limited so that votes can be returned by election day.
Votes must be returned by post or email by midnight on 17 August to be included, but members can alternatively vote at the special general meeting on 22 August.
In an 8-to-2 vote, the "open verdict" returned by the jury failed to offer the backing Scotland Yard had sought for police commanders and the two firearms officers who shot the Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes.
The best candidate topics are decided by a voting scheme, where each question contributes to a vote for its original topic ("Gynecology" has 3 votes, and "Infertility" has 1 vote).
This area returned a narrow No vote of 51%.
One freshman, Alabama's Parker Griffith, after getting roughly $1.5 million from the DCCC in 2008 and 2009, returned the favor by voting against every Democratic priority and then bolting for the Republican Party.
Ultimately, on March 25, the Senate voted 56 43 to pass the bill, which, because of procedural violations in some of its language, had to be returned to the House, where it passed again by a vote of 220 207.
