Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was news. The Administration had argued for ten months that the Soldier Vote law, by giving the responsibility to 48 states, would in effect deny many soldiers the right to vote. The states and the armed forces were doing yeoman work in getting out the ballot. It was too early to say that the 4,300,000 applications already received would mean that 4,300,000 servicemen were actually going to cast ballots. Some states are less efficient than others; in some states, notably the South, where the servicemen's vote is not crucial, inefficiency may lose some...
...polls should be open to all citizens-"without tax or artificial restriction." And, for the second time in a fortnight, he accused GOPsters of trying to make it hard for U.S. servicemen to vote: "There are politicians and others who quite openly worked to restrict the use of the ballot in this election, hoping selfishly for a small vote...
...Council for Freshmen to serve on the Class Committee. Appointments to the Committee will be made on a temporary basis some time near the end of November, and will hold good until March, 1945, when the permanent Freshman Committee will be elected by the class on a formal ballot. The Committee chosen will serve only for the duration of the war, however, and the formal election of marshals will be withheld also until after the war, when the membership of the class will again be stable...
Members of Adams House elected the following men to positions on the House Committee for the winter term: Harold May '47, Roger A. Pellaton '47, and Jerome J. Weinstein '46. These men won on a ballot of seven put before the House this week. Nominations had previously been made by the retiring Committee and through petitions signed by 25 students...
...Democrats and Republicans simultaneously discovered that the other party is sending out campaign literature along with servicemen's ballots. At Miami, a sailor reported that his ballot was accompanied by a plea for the re-election of Michigan's Republican Governor Harry F. Kelly. At Guadalcanal, a soldier opened his ballot, found a letter from Chicago's Democratic Mayor Edward J. Kelly, urging him to vote for Franklin Roosevelt. The two Kellys reacted differently. Governor Kelly denied everything; Mayor Kelly announced that he had sent, not one, but 150,000 letters. "It's legal," he explained...