Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independent voter who cast her ballot for Eisenhower, I feel very strongly on the advisability of a Cabinet post for Stevenson (and not one of the sop positions, either). Such an act would be not only a smart political move on the part of the President elect, but also a great service to the country...
Dwight Eisenhower won the presidency of the U.S. in a ballot-box revolution...
...seven voters of Millsfield, N.H. (pop. 16) stayed up late on election eve and marked their ballots just as soon as the clock struck midnight. Everybody had gathered in the parlor of Mrs. Genevieve N. Annis' 125-year-old house well ahead of time, and the votes were cast, in the light of kerosene lamps, amid a fine, conspiratorial atmosphere. Mrs. Annis, the town clerk, collected and counted them quickly, recorded one absentee ballot, and, at 12:02 o'clock, proudly reported the nation's first election returns (eight votes for Eisenhower...
...weeks the speculation and suspense mounted and the questions multiplied. The answers went into the ballot box on Election Day. In a few hours they began to pour out. Here, measured in Eastern Standard Time, is how the ballot boxes told one of the greatest stories of this generation...
...glad we New Zealanders have a simple ballot paper" he added. "It measures six by four inches...