"People decide on their own if they want to vote or don't want to vote," he grumbled last Monday, on the eve of the primary election for city offices, including his own — the very election that had been abruptly postponed on account of the catastrophe.
"Some people say 'count every vote'; it'd be better if you just counted every legal vote," says Dino Rossi, a Republican who lost by a wispy 129-vote margin.Yet Washington is forging ahead with the very election method that helped to muddle that crazy race: postal balloting.
She's fallen afoul of the very election laws that she, as secretary of state, was supposed to enforce.
And, as the very elections for the parliament suggest, European voters conceive of their politics in national terms.
Re "The Recount Is In, and the Supreme Court Loses" (Op-Ed, July 17): Jeffrey Rosen concludes that the recounts of Florida's presidential ballots by various news media have proved "inconclusive," even though no recount has ever swung that very close election to Al Gore.
Mayor Carollo's very election to a second term in 1998 created one of those situations.
To many overseas, Obama's very election represented a return to American ideals.
There is no president, and the National Assembly itself is a problematic assembly because while it is criticizing the presidential elections, the Assembly is the product of those very elections that were supposedly so bad.
That very first presidential election, carried out in the law school's stately, leaf-strewn quadrangle, would prove typical of Mr. Obama's lifelong quest to mediate conflict, and of the way that goal has merged with his own quest for advancement.
