· Encourage universities to registers as a block students living in halls of residence · Trial election-day registration.
The New York Page, which never charged a cent, chronicled life in Jamaica, its galas, new apartment buildings and street fairs, its traffic and construction issues, its crimes, trials, elections, accidents and new businesses.
In the 30 years since, media companies have become much better at preparing for big events — sports matches, murder trials, elections, even fashion shows — and capitalizing on them through wall-to-wall coverage on television, commemorative editions of newspapers and magazines, and advertiser-supported special sections on Web sites.
Only in the last 10 years have pro-democracy campaigns resulted in constitutions and laws that allow press freedom, fair trials, honest elections and other basic rights.
What next — an Eastern European military officer's divorce trial, an election campaign in Asia, an iPhone prototype left in a bar? (That's another story).
Here are some more defining traits: equality before the law, without regard for birth, wealth or ancestry; the mass franchise; universal education; jury trials; regular elections.
Students at George Washington University, under the direction of Dr. Poorvi Vora, Dr. Jonathan Stanton and Dr. Rahul Simha, all computer science professors, are working to program Dr. Chaum's system for a trial student election.
Appearing before Judge Alfred M. Wolin four days before he was to go on trial on election-law, tax, perjury and other charges that could have sent him to prison for decades, Mr. Chang, as a condition of his plea, also agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department's investigation of campaign skulduggery.
Mankiewicz anchors the drama in actual events from New York State's violent Anti-Rent War, such as a famous murder trial, the election of John Young as governor on a land-reform platform, and a doctor (here played by Glenn Langan) who leads the strikers.
The UK has run trials for local elections before – in 2002, 2003 and 2007 – and Estonia famously became the first to offer online voting for its general election for parliament in 2007.
