Word: balloted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of these fears and the continued Russian refusal to recognize the non-Communist union, the strike meeting agreed to submit the proposed settlement to a ballot...
Despite all the preliminary rowdedow, the country was subdued on election day. Theoretically, the ballot was secret, but few voters used the booths set aside for them. To vote "Yes" (i.e., for the People's Front), the voter simply had to drop an unmarked ballot into the box. But if he wanted to vote "No," he had to make a cross on the ballot. Thus only "No" voters had any reason to walk into the booths; the names of those who did could be carefully noted. By midafternoon, on election day, eligible voters who had not appeared...
Equally sincerely, two days later, the government announced the results, which surprised nobody: 96.5% of the voters had cast their ballot for the Communist regime. The People's Front bowed to the duly expressed will of the majority. The Reds folded their goulash tents and sent their brass bands home. The mulatsdg was over...
...More Rice Pudding. So Hagueism became a memory. Rice Pudding Day (when city, county and state job holders kicked back 3% of their annual salaries to a Boss Hague "campaign fund"), the fixed ballot boxes, the voting of the dead, the bullyboys beating up poll watchers, the cops swinging nightsticks on labor organizers-all that became history...
Just before the polls opened on election day last November, a Republican challenger picked up a ballot box in a Bourbon County, Ky. precinct, shook it, and heard a startling sound. Not a vote had been cast, but paper was rustling inside the box. It was opened. The rustle had been made by 17 fraudulent ballots. Investigators looked farther, found that boxes in ten other precincts had been stuffed too. Altogether, 254 phony ballots had been planted in the boxes. All but one were marked for Harry Truman and Democratic Senator Virgil Chapman (who carried the county...