Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fourth Middlesex Country district, Barrett won the first ballot over Roosevelt by a 12-vote margin (45 to 33). But Barrett and Bachrach lost several delegates to Roosevelt on the second ballot, and Roosevelt picked up 42 votes to Barrett...
...Suffolk and Middlesex district ultimately supported Bachrach after narrowly choosing Roosevelt on the first ballot...
...Harvard degree may have paid off forMassie, who qualified to appear on the primaryballot by earning the support of 24 percent ofdelegates. A candidate needs 15 percent to makethe ballot...
...mass of the populace. In any nation, and perhaps especially in a democracy, the normally passive majority can be roused to levels of action which, due merely to their weight in numbers, can have profound effects on society. Whether the action comes in the from of picking up a ballot or picking up a rifle, the collective force of the populace is a power which has often proven governments and institutions both to be ultimately helpless...
According to a 1992 Wall Street Journal report, a candidate for office in the school's finance club was accused of stuffing the ballot boxes...