Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contained in the ballot are five questions dealing with three fields of military participation, America and another great war, Government control of munitions and war resources, and United States entry into the League of Nations...
Saarbrucken, The Saar, January 9--Ill-feeling bordering on open violence among rival factions in the Saar plebiscite resulted tonight when the Anti Nazi united front organization bluntly charged the German front leadership with "Terrorist methods" in handling the arrival of German-American voters in the Sunday ballot...
...possesses several equally good methods of attack any successful procedure needs to determine the facts concerning the election and recount, Concerning the election, Playfair and Gibbs have not yet explained the absence of officials at polling places at specified times, the absence of a place for signature on the ballots, the unorthodox ballot boxes, and the unusual expense involved in their arrangements. Concerning the recount, no adequate explanation has yet been offered of the reasons for the recount, the failure to notify or obtain authorization from the Council, and the final unfortunate release of the results to the Transcript without...
Nine of the preferential ballots for Bowditch rated 3-2-1, were rejected because they were unsigned. This reduced his lead of 16 by 20 votes so that Gundlach won by the close margin of four votes. Although there was no place on the ballot on which to affix one's signature, announcement was made through the CRIMSON and at the polls that a signature was necessary...
...restricting cotton production by means of a prohibitive ginning tax. Instead the vote was 9-to-1 in favor of this form of compulsory crop limitation. The "election" was unique in that to polling places throughout the South went thousands upon thousands of Negroes who had never cast a ballot before in their lives...