Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Voters will draw two cards of different colors or shapes. Supporters of Perez Jimenez will drop the affirmative card into the ballot box and leave the booth conspicuously exhibiting the negative card. Leaving the booth without this card in hand will take more nerve than the average citizen is likely to show. It was clear that the ayes would have it, thereby electing Perez Jimenez and his Congress for another five-year term. But just to make sure, the President banned all political meetings, leaflets, emblems, posters, buttons, loudspeakers or speeches...
...nominees elected included Associate Dean Judson T. Shaplin '42 of the Graduate School of Education, Mrs. Catherine T. Ogden, and Edward T. Sullivan, a newcomer to the board, one of the four Sullivans entered on the 26-man ballot...
During the discussion, Carl Sloane '58, Council vice-president, said that the new system would result in the "Bullet Ballot," voting only for one person. He cited as evidence of such possible malfeasance examples of voter manipulation by ballot-box watchers he had seen in Dunster and Lowell Houses...
Jerry Kolodny '58 suggested that Student Council endorsement of the measure should be put on the ballot...
Mayor Edward J. Sullivan was leading other candidates for the Cambridge City Council by a substantial margin yesterday. Sullivan was the only candidate whose total at the end of first-choice ballot counting appeared to guarantee him a seat on the Council...