On 16 Aug 97 10:19, Brian Lingard wrote:
 BL> In a good number of organizations, the
 BL> bulk of the candidate
 BL> selection is done quite a bit ahead of
 BL> time and the slate of
 BL> candidates presented for election has
 BL> pretty much the exact
 BL> number of candidates to be elected, so
 BL> the election process is a
 BL> formality.
 BL> As examples of pre-selection I'd consider:
 BL> -U.S. elections for Congress and the
 BL> res.  Like Americans don't
Ever hear of Congresswoman Linda Smith of Washington state's Third 
Congressional District?  She won the state primary for her first 
term in Congress by a write-in victory!
Mike Freeman
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