Word: australian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...main purposes are embodied in the plan. First it is intended to provide a means of publishing before the election names of all men nominated and supported by a fixed number of signatures. Secondly, it is proposed to vote according to the Australian ballot system, the place of voting being kept open for a number of hours during the day. The objects of both measures are, to place all men in the class upon a more equal footing (irrespective of organization), than has been the case in the past, and furthermore to obtain a larger vote...
...Harvard Forum will hold a special public debate in Sever 11, at 7.30 tonight, on the question: "Resolved, That all day voting by the Australian ballot would give greater satisfaction in the election of class officers than voting in a single evening meeting...
...reasons stated in the CRIMSON editorial of Monday, Section III makes the Australian system proposed unfair and undesirable. The remedy of dividing the offices into two groups and having two voting days would, it seems to me, cause the election to extend over too long a period of time and make it too complicated...
...having the class seated alphabetically at the meeting and obliging them to keep their seats the voting can be as secret and fair as by the Australian system proposed, and it surely will be far less complicated...
...secretary, marshals, literary officers, and chorister, were to be elected on one day, and the committee men on a later day, then a man who had failed for an office proper (for example, a marshalship) could still come up for a committee place. If all-day voting by the Australian ballot be adopted, this balloting on two different days, while a little more inconvenient perhaps to the tellers, would be no great hardship on the individual elector who who could vote between lectures without sacrifice of time. This must still seem far preferable to the antiquated method of spending...