Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their squeaks had an agonized sound, and with reason: they were getting a kicking around from election boards, the courts, the Dies Committee, the American Legion. By one technicality or another, last week 17 States had taken steps to bar candidates of at least one minority party from the ballot...
...Most harassed little party was the Communist. In most States a political party must score a certain minimum number of votes to keep its place on the ballot; if it loses its place, must then file nominating papers to get back on. Signatures on Communist nominating petitions were being investigated by the Dies Committee and American Legionnaires, turned over to local prosecutors. Many a signer told investigators he had thought he was approving a new schoolhouse or playground...
Many a signature was found to be an out-&-out forgery. In 21 States the Communist Party was either barred from the ballot or made no effort to get on. Arizona ruled that Communists were not qualified to hold office, on the ground that they could not swear to uphold the Constitution...
Citizens of twelve states are out of luck as far as casting a ballot for their presidential candidate is concerned, unless they go home or can prove themselves self-supported by scholarships or by trust funds, the chairmen of the two College political organizations admitted last night...
Superintendent of Elections William E. Sewell, searching for evidence of ballot-box stuffing and illegal voting in Hudson County, demanded to see the County's poll books for the last four elections, so that he could compare the signatures of voters with signatures in his registration books. Hudson County declined to surrender them. Sewell threatened to go to court. Word came from Hudson County that the books had been burned. Later, 1938 and 1939 records were grudgingly produced...