Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Massachusetts allows no formal entrants in its Presidential primaries, provides a space on the ballot in which the voter may indicate his preference. Last week 76,710 Massachusetts Republicans wrote in the name of Alfred Mossman Landon. That was more than ten times as many as scribbled the name of Herbert Hoover, nine times the total for the next three choices-Borah, Vandenberg, Knox...
...thereby made sure that John Caldwell Calhoun did not get the Vice-Presidential nomination away from Martin Van Buren. The first beneficiary of the two-thirds rule became its first victim. In the 1844 convention Van Buren got a majority vote for the Presidential nomination on the first ballot, could not raise it to two-thirds. Tired delegates compromised on Dark Horse James K. Polk. At Baltimore in 1912 the two-thirds rule changed the history of the world when Champ Clark got a majority on eight ballots, finally lost the nomination to Woodrow Wilson...
...have been few charges of "politics" in reference to the men that the Committees have nominated, but this is no guarantee that the story in the future will be so tranquil. It appears an easy temptation for a Committee to nominate only those men whom they desire for the ballot, and the student body in the House is forced to spend considerable energy to add other men to the list by the cumbersome petition system...
...Houses were to adopt a uniform method of election like the "open primary", it would do away with this possibility for the House Committee to place names on the ballot that were not popular choices. Under an "open primary" set-up, one week before the elections were to take place, the residents of the Houses would vote for the men they wished to elect. The results would be counted, and the three or four persons receiving the greatest number of votes would automatically be put up for the final election. Out of this four, one or two would be finally...
...were going to vote for, and consequently would be inclined to take a greater interest in the affairs of the House. Voting would be a two minute job before or after a meal, thus dong away with the difficulties of collecting signatures for petitions to add names to a ballot that a partisan Committee might have committed...