The prisoners were not fully aware that the state had come to the end of the line, and, having no chance to act on that understanding, voted down Oswald's offer ("If they had said, 'Either release the hostages or we're coming in shooting,' " one inmate observed afterward, the vote might have gone the other way).
Oh well.Don Herzog Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law SchoolAnn Arbor, Michigam SIR —Your article on the US Supreme Court's opinion upholding the ban on partial-birth abortions omitted one fact about the five justice majority which is perhaps more significant to understanding their votes than is their conservatism.
He explains, "We can agree that the Constitution itself should be taken as binding without finding it self-evident that Americans must be bound by past understandings of votes by some segment of the citizenry over two centuries ago".
That is why we are so upset that the government have come back with this proposal, reneging as far as we are concerned on a tacit understanding that voting for 28 days would finish the debate on this issue for this parliament.
In a unique programme of research – the largest attempted in Europe, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has ploughed more than £5m into interconnected work streams funding research that promises to have profound consequences for understanding why we vote and why we vote the way we do.
Campaign professionals have developed a new conceptual framework for understanding what moves votes.
Combined with the widespread understanding that most votes in most states simply have virtually no chance of affecting the outcome of the presidential election, the effect is to erode our collective belief that our most important political office is actually chosen democratically.
Kirby Swales, the author of the new report, Understanding the Leave Vote, says the referendum campaign, in which anti-immigration sentiment was an important factor, exposed a series of divides in British society.
Everybody should have a clear understanding of their voting rights.
However, it's my understanding that abstentee voting by mail has been going on since early December.
