Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University degree holders will receive a postal ballot this spring and will select five Overseers, four Directors, and two Councilors. The results will be announced on Commencement Day, June...
Foley's election came on the first ballot last night when the four-councilman minority backed by the Cambridge Civic Association threw its unanimous support to Foley. Like all the remaining four Independents except John D. Lynch, Foley had previously been voting for himself. After the majority had been obtained, all the Independents changed their votes to make the election unanimous...
...present muddle of Italian politics. The De Gasperi coalition actually polled more than a majority of the gross vote-some 52%-and was entitled to a bonus, which would have given De Gasperi 657 of the seats. He did not claim it. The Communists had cannily challenged 1,300.000 ballots-three times more than they challenged in the 1948 elections. The bulk of the questioned ballots are known to be legally pro-De Gasperi, entitling the democratic coalition to about 70 seats held by the Communists, and some scattered others. But the electoral reform law itself (called everywhere the "fraud...
When the City Council meets again tomorrow, it will have cast 115 ballots for mayor. No candidate has received more than two votes on the past 50 ballots. Monday, four men voted for themselves on every ballot...
...point a hair's breadth from victory, saw that he could not win. He approved three other candidates, all from his own conservative Independent Republican Party. Of these, the one who proved most acceptable was a 71-year-old Senator named René Coty. On the eleventh ballot, Coty had 71 votes; on the twelfth, 431; on the 13th, he had 477-more than enough to win. Sad and tired, Loser Laniel congratulated...