Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party of the left." To some members of both parties he declared: "You are not in your proper spiritual homes . . . if there cannot be a reasonably cohesive body of opinion in each major party, you are on a blind road where there is no authority in the ballot...
...Nebeker Peterson of Ogden, Utah, and Winthrop House and Richard Totten Button of Englewood, New Jersey, and Lowell House, both Council incumbents, ran away with the election, polling 70 percent of the class vote. Peterson and Button early reached the quota, 204 votes, which guaranteed election under the preferential ballot tabulating. Seven hundred twenty-two voted...
Last week a crewman got left off the Council election ballot in Winthrop House, and fourteen crew members were granted an exclusive right to absentee ballots. In six other House elections there was a discrepancy between the number of ballots cast and the number of names checked off, and in two of these cases the discrepancy was sufficient to require a revote. This looseness in following election rules and procedure points up a need for more careful conduct of Council elections...
...South Carolina the voter has had to make his choice in full public view. Each party had its own ballot, and the voter picked up the one he wanted from the Republican or Democratic stack on an open table. Last week Governor J. Strom Thurmond signed a bill giving South Carolina voters for the first time a privilege that citizens of the other 47 states have long enjoyed-a single, secret ballot...
Adams and Eliot Houses will have reelections Monday because of discrepancies in their ballot checking Thursday...