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	China Program Activities - China Holds First Direct Elections at Township Level
		A researcher from the Legislative Affairs Committee of the NPC was quoted as saying, "though the election did not abide by the current regulations and political system, it reflected a positive direction of rural democracy." According to election organizers, the NPC's comments created enough ambiguity to allow other townships to consider direct election experimentation.
		Election organizers may have recognized that the impetus for political reform in China has largely taken place in experimental form and in the countryside.
		Village committee elections, for example, are rooted in collapse of collectivized agriculture and the dissolution of the commune system in the late 1970s.
	www.iri.org /asia/china/2000-02-03-China.asp (958 words)

	Search Results for "Direct election"
		direct primary An election in which voters choose candidates to run on a party s ticket in a subsequent election for public office.
		1 1852 Direct election of the Chamber of Deputies was reintroduced, with limited suffrage....
		He failed to win the necessary overall majority for reelection in Finland's first direct election for the presidency in January 1988, but the Electoral College...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Direct+election (300 words)

	Direct election - Information from Reference.com
		Direct election is a term describing a system of choosing political officeholders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the person, persons or political party that they desire to see elected.
		The method by which the winner or winners of a direct election are chosen depends upon the electoral system used.
		the election of the US President is technically indirect -- the voters elect the electoral college, who then elects the President -- although in practice it resembles a direct election for most purposes.
	www.reference.com /search?q=Direct+election (408 words)

	LWV \| Selection of the President
		The League testified and lobbied for legislation to amend the Constitution to replace the Electoral College with direct election of the President, including provisions for a national runoff election in the event no candidates (President or Vice-President) received 40 percent of the vote.
		In 1997, the LWVUS again called for abolition of the Electoral College and for direct election of the President and Vice-President in testimony before the House Subcommittee on the Constitution.
		Election of the President by the House further removes the decision from the people and is contrary to the “one person, one vote” principle.
	www.lwv.org /AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=1323 (404 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Origins & Development > Institutional Development > Direct Election ...
		In one case in the late 1860s, the election of Senator John Stockton of New Jersey was contested on the grounds that he had been elected by a plurality rather than a majority in the state legislature.
		The impetus for reform began as early as 1826, when direct election of senators was first proposed.
		As representatives of a direct election process, the new senators supported measures that argued for federal legislation, but in order to achieve reform, a constitutional amendment was required.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Direct_Election_Senators.htm (1028 words)

	Transatlantic Institute - Building bridges across the Atlantic
		In the 2006 election, Israelis went to the polls to choose parties, rather than a prime minister, as they had done briefly in the 1990s under the direct election system.
		Direct election meant that on election-day voters would separately choose a candidate for prime minister, in addition to the usual party-list ballot cast for the Knesset.
		This episode--known ever after as "the stinking maneuver"--led Israelis to change their Basic Law in 1992 to require that a separate popular election of the prime minister (PM) be held concurrently with balloting for the Knesset, although the PM's mandate would continue to depend upon a parliamentary vote of confidence.
	www.transatlanticinstitute.org /html/pu_studies.html (1201 words)

	EC: Direct election? Danger!
		The direct election system is subject to types of fraud that are impossible under the Electoral College system.
		In a direct election, any of the 160,000 polling places in the U.S. could affect the outcome.
		The last direct election proposal provided that the election results should be certified no less than thirty days after the election.
	www.avagara.com /e_c/ec_directdanger.htm (906 words)

	Australian Republican Movement - News 7-12-01 'Greg Craven: Direct Election Disaster' Greg Craven, The Australian
		After all, the final proposal was a combination of three blueprints, two of which expressly contemplated direct election.
		Once it has produced the inevitable proposal for direct election, that is the only thing the subsequent constitutional convention is allowed to discuss.
		So it appears the leadership of the ARM is progressing majestically towards a referendum where a complex and controversial model for direct election will be opposed not only by monarchists but by every conceivable variety of non-direct election republican.
	www.republic.org.au /ARM-2001/news&events/newsclips/clip7Dec2001.htm (669 words)

	Articles - Direct election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Direct election is a term describing a system of choosing political officeholders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the person, persons or political party that they desire to see elected.
		The method by which the winner or winners of a direct election are chosen depends upon the electoral system used.
		The most commonly used systems are the plurality system and the two round system for single winner elections, such as a presidential election, and party-list proportional representation for the election of a legislature.
	www.foreverc.com /articles/Direct_election (119 words)

	OpinionJournal - Outside the Box
		And the direct election of presidents would be a political, electoral, and constitutional mistake that would radically change America's election system.
		First, the direct election of presidents would lead to geographically narrower campaigns, for election efforts would be largely urban.
		One wonders if the direct election of presidents is really the beginning of an effort to bring national government under the control of large and liberal states.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/pdupont/?id=110008855 (1099 words)

	NCPA - Government And Politics - Direct Election Versus The Electoral College
		Whatever the ultimate outcome of the presidential election, there will be debate about replacing the Electoral College with a direct popular vote.
		Polls have consistently shown large majorities of Americans favoring direct election of the president.
		The most recent poll, by ABC and the Washington Post in 1988, found 77 percent of Americans preferring direct election to the current system.
	www.ncpa.org /pd/govern/pd112000a.html (339 words)

	AskMe: America Asks About Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The proposed amendment provides for the direct election of the President and Vice-President by the voters.
		The pair of candidates who recieves the greatest number of votes cast by indivdual voters would be elected- as long as they recieve at least 40% of the total votes cast.
		If not,there will be a run-off election between two pairs of candidates who recieved the most votes.
	archive.ontheissues.org /AskMe/Electoral_Amendment.htm (647 words)

	Rita Fan takes on direct election
		She will take on a direct election for the first time in her political career, competing on Hong Kong island, a hotly-contested geographical stomping ground.
		Her rivals include the heads of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong, as well as Audrey Eu, "voting queen" of the 2000 by-election.
		"It is my wish to take part in a direct election once in a lifetime, and I hope very much that the people would tell me if I should stay on," she said.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-07/19/content_349681.htm (329 words)

	Direct election -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Direct election -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		By far the most important example of this process not being the case is the election for (The person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government) President of the United States, which is an (additional info and facts about indirect election) indirect election.
		This (The body of electors who formally elect the United States president and vice-president) Electoral College is in fact who choses the President, as demostrated rather spectacularly in the (additional info and facts about 2000 election) 2000 election.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/di/direct_election.htm (161 words)

	Bruce Bartlett Opinion Editorial: Direct Election Versus The Electoral College
		Whatever the ultimate outcome of the presidential election, it is safe to assume that there is going to be a serious debate next year on replacing the Electoral College.
		Those supporting direct election and abolition of the Electoral College will be deluding themselves if they think it would have prevented this year's election debacle.
		There may be a better system of electing a president, but direct election definitely is not one of them.
	www.ncpa.org /oped/bartlett/nov2000.html (1017 words)

	Serbia Info News / Extension of municipal authority - direct election of mayor
		Extension of municipal authority - direct election of mayor
		Belgrade, July 24 - "The local self-governing draft law foresees direct election of the president of the municipality and the mayor, the two functions which constitute the executive, the introduction of an ombudsman office and substantial extension of municipal authority," the Deputy Justice and Self-Government Minister Dusan Protic told a press conference.
		According to him, innovations in this field constitute the first significant step towards reform of the self-governing system of administration.
	www.serbia-info.com /news/2001-07/24/24703.html (265 words)

	National Popular Vote -- Electoral college reform by direct election of the President
		National Popular Vote -- Electoral college reform by direct election of the President
		Common Cause supports National Popular Vote's proposal for the direct election of the President of the United States.
		A century ago it was states that first established women's suffrage and direct election of U.S. Senators.
	www.nationalpopularvote.com /pages/organizations/commoncause.php (296 words)

	The Empire Strikes Back -- Froomkin
		It may seem odd that three papers in a symposium devoted to the "New Paradigms" relating to the Internet are directed, in whole or in part, to one of the hoariest of legal topics, the governance of nations.
		Thus, for example, the Post-Johnson thought experiment is at a sufficiently high level of generality that it concentrates on asking questions about the role of law in society in general in the hopes of generating answers applicable to the Internet.
		Amendment XVII (providing for direct election of Senators who had formerly been chosen by state legislators pursuant to Id. Art.
	personal.law.miami.edu /~froomkin/articles/empire.htm (6076 words)

	FairVote - Gallup Polls on Direct Election
		Members of National Popular Vote discuss their plan for direct election of the president, a hope shared by the majority of Americans.
		FairVote NC member Lee Mortimer takes aim at the segmentation of our country into swing states and safe states, forcing candidates to ignore most of us.
		A call for serious consideration of the National Popular Vote plan in the Massachusetts legislature.
	www.fairvote.org /activist/?page=1823 (146 words)

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