Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election was the greatest possible tribute to the secret ballot, which is the heart of democracy. It is true that the vote was low;* there was considerable evidence that many had voted reluctantly. But a reluctant vote counts just as much as an enthusiastic one. The election was a decision, perhaps some day to be amended (as democracy can and does amend its choices), but an affirmative decision nevertheless...
Wallace could draw some consolation from the fact that his 508,542 votes in New York had cost Truman the state's 47 electoral votes. If he had been on the ballot in Illinois, and had received the 48 to 64,000 votes cast for Progressive candidates for local offices, he would have given Dewey that state too. But his loud & noisy campaign had struck no roots. He had managed to convince the voters that he had only one major policy-Russia was always right, the U.S. always wrong. Obviously, the future of Gideon's army...
...experts thought they had him analyzed, charted, taped and ready for delivery. One pollster loftily dismissed him two months ago and would not even take another look. But the independent voter apparently wasn't telling anybody anything. This week he went to the polls and cast his secret ballot. In Illinois, a victorious Democratic candidate for the Senate, Paul Douglas, declared: "This is ... a people's victory." He was right. The little old independent voter was the hero of Election Day. There was only one thing to his discredit and that was his casualness. On the basis...
...night before. A minute later Vag realized the exam wasn't coming up after all--it was over and what was more, there was the blue book he had failed to hand in. Squatting right in the middle of his desk it was, marked carefully in black, Absentee Ballot...
...simply hadn't known how to vote. Pulling his ballot out of its envelope, he noticed it was just as he left it seven days ago. The names were still as empty as the circles beside them were bare. Most of the country had pencilled an X in the circle under President; Vag took out his pen and entered the letters V A G in the ring. He could vote for himself any time and best of all, he didn't need a stamp...