Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same ballot, seniors will vote to accept the Class constitution. Nominating petitions closed yesterday, but a complete count of the number of candidates has not yet been made. The Permanent Class Committee will submit its nominations today...
...M.R.P., a newer party, while anxious to trim Communist voting strength, is in the same electoral position as the Communists. With its supporters well scattered, it stands to lose heavily if proportional representation is abandoned. M.R.P. Deputies accordingly plumped for a modified single-ballot system, as close to the present P.R. as possible...
Almost every reform proposal put forward by Pleven was hammered to death by the combination of one of these parties and the consistently opposed Communists. When the two-ballot system came before the Assembly's suffrage committee, it was beaten by the Communists and the M.R.P. When a party alliance clause (favorable to the M.R.P.) came up, it was beaten by the Communists and the Radicals...
Last week the harried, ailing Premier told the Deputies he was willing to accept a single-ballot vote, a runoff election system or even a combination of proportional representation and a majority vote. He warned that proportional representation had bred the self-destructive coalitions of Germany's Weimar Republic. "This lack of power," he rapped, "provoked a crystallization of opinion into two irreducible blocs . . . leaving no result of the whole experiment except that one party was in the government and all the others were in prison . . . We don't want to see that happen here...
Candidates for the premiership started a revolving-door traffic the next day. First to try was M.R.P. Leader Georges Bi-dault. He hoped to put through a one-ballot reform system and proposed a sense-making coalition running all the way from the Socialists to the Gaullists. The prospective coalition members balked...