Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Temporary changes in the election machinery will confine ballot tabulation to two rooms in Phillips Brooks House which candidates will not be allowed to enter, provide two observers from the CRIMSON, and prevents hasty counting of votes by getting no time limit...
Most of the 34,500,000 registered voters in Great Britain will today choose 625 members of Parliament from 1,864 assorted candidates. Each voter will make one mark on a paper ballot which lists names but no party affiliations, and drop that ballot into a sealed box. The man he chooses may live and vote in another constituency, but will certainly not be a lord, a member of the clergy, an employe of the government, a lunatic, an alien, or a government contractor...
After the voting, all the ballot boxes of a constituency will be brought to a central counting office, the votes tabulated, and the candidate with the most votes (no majority is necessary) declared the winner. Should there be a tie, the Returning Officer will decide the winner by lot. All this is certain...
...sure, "in Phillips Brooks House" on the night of the election. It is erroneous to assume that ballot-stealing is the only activity that can take place in PBH. I arrived there on business in no way connected with the balloting when the first count was about two-thirds complete. It was only after being informed of my elimination in the count that I took any part in the procedure. My own candidacy being at an end, I was drafted into the various checks and recounts necessary to assure the final accuracy of the count, which consumed the rest...
...said that Hall was "supervising" the ballot tabulation and that Houghteling took "active part" in counting votes. He further complained that Burke, Charles R. Brynteson '50, John T. Carnahan '50, Hall, and Houghteling assisted in Tecounts of the election...