Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first years after World War II, Moscow strategists assumed that the Red Army could roll almost unopposed to the Atlantic if they decided to take the great chance on World War III. But it might be more prudent to capture Western Europe through the ballot box. Accordingly, Western European Communist Parties concentrated on political drives to exploit economic misery and insecurity. Their success was checked by the Marshall Plan, but they still knew that in event of war Western Europe offered no military obstacle to the Red Army. Last fall the Kremlin realized that the U.S. military aid program might...
Parliament has also abolished the twelve university seats which were formerly filled by mail ballot votes of graduates of the leading universities...
Britons do not use voting machines. On election day, the polls are opened at 7 a.m., closed at 9 p.m. When the polls close, the sealed ballot boxes are removed to a central "counting room" in the constituency, opened and emptied; it is then that the election officials embark on a procedure that would baffle U.S. politicians. British law requires that the ballots from all the polling places in the constituency be mixed on a large counting table before the count is begun. This makes it impossible to get a breakdown of the vote by districts. The returning officer declares...
...Each voter must sign a list at the ballot box when he deposits his ballot...
...want to know why the simple, mechanical process of running an election was termed "chaos" by a ballot counters and did indeed seem to be chaos...