Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secret Ballot. The German boys run the club themselves. Sergeant Moriarty and his nine friends call themselves counselors. They provide transport, equipment, refreshments and other necessary items out of their own pockets. But from the first, Moriarty pounded home the point that the object of the club was to teach German boys the independent, democratic way of life. And they are learning it. First they elected temporary officers. G.I.s and counselors guided them. One of the first things the boys wanted to know was how the secret ballot system works. The temporary officers then drew up temporary rules. Rule No.11...
...understanding how elections go, the Massachusetts long ballot is perhaps most significant of all. The columnar arrangement so common in other states has never been used, a fact which means that the voter cannot cast a straight party ticket by making a single mark. He must indicate his choice separately for each office; in Presidential years, that task can be onerous even for the most enlightened patriots...
...Price Boss Chester Bowles, who has little political experience but great ambition, seemed a cinch to be the Democratic nominee for governor of Connecticut. But last week he was outfoxed by the pros. In a wide-open state convention, after the pros had maneuvered a first-ballot deadlock, they threw all their strength to Lieut. Governor Wilbert Snow, 62-year-old poet and former Wesleyan University professor of English. Rushing to make the nomination unanimous, Chester said: "I've always said I'd never sulk in my tent...
Taking the nominating committee named Thursday evening by the Council as a starting point, the revisionists protested the election set-up "because the Council has arbitrarily appointed a nominating committee which will equally arbitrarily place names on the ballot...
...should the men this committee sees fit to name hold such an initial advantage over others who must circulate petitions and solicit signatures on their own behalf to appear on the same ballot?" the statement asked...