Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition, incidentally, the 1933 elections exhibited an unusual irregularity. Of its 353 voters who balloted for secretary, each was entitled to indicate five choices for Album Committee, which should give a total of 1765 votes. The actual total was 1516; the 249 votes were thrown away partly by Seniors who could not honestly say they knew five men from the list of candidates for the Album Committee, but mostly by an organized and interested group who, it insure the election of a number of candidates, specified on a typewritten "ticket" which was circulated, voted for them and for them only...
...departure in the class elections has appeared with the nomination of Filstrup who is a Senior in the Engineering School. Never before has an engineering School. Never before has an engineering student's name been sent in for the ballot. Filstrup was nominated as the result of an open straw vote taken among the seniors at the school last week, who desired to be represented in the elections. Results of the elections will be printed in Friday's CRIMSON...
...great importance among the hopes for better local government are improved methods of election and election machinery." Mr. Seasongood advocated the Australian ballot, the short ballot, the non-partisan ballot, the ballot with names rotating (doing away with the dumb-bell vote which gives Adams an advantage over Smith and Williams), the holding of national and state elections at times differing from city elections, the method of proportional representation and the use of voting machines...
...three marshals will be chosen by preferential voting, first petition on the ballot counting three points; second, two; third, one. Balloting will be conducted by the Junior Elections Committee, headed by Atreus von Schrader '34. The treasurer will hold office for life. The class oration is delivered in Sanders Theater; the Ivy oration, of humorous nature, in the Stadium; the chorister leads the singing of "Fair Harvard...
...sooner had the last U. S. ballot been counted, than Great Britain led France and other Debtor Powers last week in a free-for-all drive by press stories and diplomatic notes toward present postponement and future cancellation of what Europe owes the U. S. (see p. 7). This drive, long prepared (even to the writing of the diplomatic notes) was not a reaction to the U. S. people's choice of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was Europe's obvious move, in view of the fact that U. S. citizens have now balloted and cannot ballot presidentially again until...