Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve parishes in the election district, balloting was held only in nine last week. Injunctions prevented voting in the rest. In Livingston parish, masked men seized ballots at Centerville, burned them. In nine precincts of West Feliciana and Washington parishes, citizens marched to the polls, seized ballot boxes borrowed from New Orleans, dumped their contents into the street, set them afire. At St. Francisville seven boxes were emptied and spiked on the courthouse fence...
Tangipahoa parishioners showed more invention. Only "ballot box'' they provided was a garbage can on Hammond's main street, labeled "Vote here if you want to." On a gallows in the Hammond town square they hanged a two-faced effigy. One face was that of the local Longster, Judge Amos Lee Ponder Jr. The other had a black eye and was labeled: LONG ISLAND HUEY LONG, Every Dog Has His Day. When the sun set on the revolting parishes, Mrs. Kemp had received 5,000 votes. Normal vote...
...marshals were elected by preferential ballot, each first choice counting three votes for the nominee; each second choice two; and each third, one. A record poll of 466 ballots was cast in this election...
...elected members of the class committee shall be chosen by ballot by the class during the senior year at an election conducted under the auspices of the Student Council. Any member of the class (except an ex-officio member of the class committee) shall be eligible for election to the class committee. Of the six members to be elected, the three having the largest number of votes shall serve until after the sexennial reunion and the three remaining shall serve until after the triennial reunion...
...nominations may be made within such time by petition addressed to the secretary and signed by at least three per cent. of the then living members of the class. From all the candidates nominated in these two manners, three members shall be elected to the class committee by postal ballot of the entire class. The members so elected shall serve until the decennial reunion...