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I'll try again. At 05:16 +0300 18.4.2002, Adam Tarr wrote: >Here are some links that I have been looking into to try and find details >on Eastern European Approval-Style elections. I have only found counter-examples. Here's Steven Brams's reference: Shabad, Theodore (l987). "Soviet to Begin Multi-Candidate Election Experiment in June." New York Times, April l5, p. A6. http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/approvalvote/altvote.html The Soviet Union passed a new electoral law in December 1988 for the election of the new Congress of People's Deputies, the huge Leninist-type body. I haven't found this law, only a short reference in Estonia: http://www.vvk.ee/english/overview.html My understanding is that the following rule still in force in Tajikistan goes back to Soviet legislation. "A voter should vote only for one candidate and for one political party. When voting for one candidate and one political party the voter should cross out names of candidates and political parties, against whom he/she votes. A voter vote against all candidates and all political parties he/she shall cross out all candidates and all political parties." http://www.ifes.org/AsiaAssocSite/tajikistan.htm Armenia has the same rule but the ballot is different. A ballot with votes for more than one candidate is invalid (Article 58) http://www.internews.am/elections/english/law/code/eleven.htm Kazakhstan uses similar ballots as Armenia, but you can vote for several candidates in the elections of bodies of local self-administration, which according to Article 21 have multi-member districts, so it doesn't count as Approval. http://www2.essex.ac.uk/elect/database/legislation/kaz_el99.htm Thanks for the links. Here's a nice one: http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/election.htm Olli Salmi ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
