Word: ballot
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...Ballot. With a few exceptions,-all registered British subjects of 21 and over may vote. Britons do not use voting machines. A voter checks his name in a voting register, marks his vote with an X on a postcard-size ballot on which the, names-but not the parties -of the Parliamentary candidates in his constituency are printed. He has but one vote to cast; the problem of voting a straight ticket does not arise...
When the polls close, the sealed ballot boxes are taken to a central "counting house.'' Before the count begins, election officials mix together the ballots from all polling stations in the constituency. This makes it impossible to analyze the votes by districts. A simple majority is enough for election; there are no runoffs, and ties are settled by drawing lots...
There is no middle ground about the way the people of Grace & St. Paul's feel about John and Carole Urich. When the time came early this month for the secret ballot on whether to make him permanent pastor, the vote was unanimous. Last week John Urich was installed. Title of his first sermon: "Miracles Still Happen...
This week the ballot count was announced. Green polled more votes than the management (1,010,000 to 598,000), but lacked the majority of all common shares (2,307,000) needed to unseat the management at a special meeting. Faced with probable defeat at the next regular meeting (where only a majority of those present would be needed), the management "compromised." It apparently planned to give Green a majority of directors on a new board...
...amending the Boston charter to allow clearing the ballot of Curley's name, the State Legislature could make short work of this strategy. But the House of Representatives, full of Curley Democrats, will balk. Curley made sure of additional support on Beacon Hill by praising Dever and the state Democrats to the limit in his "withdrawal" announcement...