Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phoebe Stone '55 and Paula Trygstad '53, spokesmen for the petitioners, explained that general feeling throughout the college was that ballot counting had become too secretive, and that many students were not aware of procedure in elections...
...this morning, the standing was: Eisenhower 34,179: Taft 26,597; Stassen 4,316; Schneider 153. The following did not officially appear on the ballot but were written in: Warren SS; MacArthur 2212; Bridges 11. For the Democrats: Kefauver 15,775; Truman 13,044. At 3 a.m. Kefauver claimed...
Among the Democrats there was a rash of write-ins on the preferential ballot. Among those who got votes were James A. Farley, Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, MacArthur, Taft, Adlai E. Stevenson, Paul H. Douglas, Stassen, and Earl Warren. These counted only a small percentage of the total...
...Each ballot in the election must have had three choices to be valid, which were weighed inversely three, two, and one in the counting. Since each valid ballot must have six "votes" on it, the total votes received by all candidates in the election should also be divisible by six, thereby giving the total number of valid ballots...
...third and more novel possibility is being widely discussed south of the Mason-Dixon line. Several Southern states have adopted or are adopting laws which keep presidential candidates' names off the general election ballot. The citizens vote, instead, only for party electors, who will be free to cast their ballots for whomever they wish when the electoral college meets next December...