Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in eight equal sections at eight separate polls. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes, cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
...committee of the senior class appointed to make arrangements for the class elections have adopted the rules used by eighty-three, except that the names of candidates receiving less than ten votes, or the least number of votes, will be dropped only after each alternate ballot, instead of after each ballot...
...themselves entirely to attacking the character of their opponents. On the day appointed for the voting a government commissioner takes charge of the polls, assisted by certain of the citizens of the district who he invites. The polls are then opened and each voter steps up and deposits his ballot in the box, has his name scratched on the check list and then retires to give place to another. The check lists, it may be said, are made out two weeks beforehand, and are open to public inspection. The voting begins...
...electors of Harvard college have given notice that they will, during the month of May, receive nominations for candidates for the board of overseers. Each elector may send a list of not more than five names, that being the number of vacancies to be filled, and must send his ballot, signed with his name and year of graduation, to Samuel M. Quincy, secretary, Old State House, Boston...
...Petrikin was elected freshman fence orator at Yale on the first ballot...