Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throwing out the preferential ballot system in favor of an independently-backed straight election plan, the Council voted that '48 Class members select a minimum of four candidates from the listed slate of 42 for the 12-man committee...
...addition voters must mark A, B, and C before the names of their choices for the three Class Marshall posts. Short biographies of each candidate will be included on the ballot form, and the ballot boxes will be sealed to prevent confusion...
...Governor Harold Stassen reported on results of a six-state speaking tour from Colorado through the South to Florida (most of which is usually considered Taft territory). So far, he calculated hopefully, he had picked up 54 convention votes out of a possible 114. His claimed first-ballot total...
...Since then he had, in fact, been losing ground. Soviet failure to deliver promised goods, particularly bread grain, on promised schedule, increased the heat and frequency of criticism leveled at Gottwald and the Kremlin. The swing away from Gottwald reached a peak when the Social Democrats, by secret ballot, bounced their pro-Communist leader Zdenek Fierlinger out of his job and installed Bohumil Lausman in his place. No rabid antiCommunist, Lausman nevertheless believes that Czechoslovakia should come first. The seams of Gottwald's National Front began popping rivets...
Junior elections would follow much the same rules, with a nominating committee composed of one man from each House and Dudley and the chairman of the Junior Class Committee. These nine will be on the ballot, in addition to 24 men they choose themselves, had any others nominated by petition...