Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual meeting. But four days before the meeting both factions agreed on a way to keep the fight from flaring into the open. The members agreed to "avoid discussion that might become acrimonious and unseemly" by putting Lautier's application to a secret yes or no ballot of the entire membership - the first time such a vote has ever been taken. At week's end, Lautier himself nutshelled the question: "How can I be denied membership on my color when they have people of the yellow race, and, I understand, Communists, as members from other countries? My color...
While he was away last week, the National Assembly convened to elect a new President. On the third ballot. Deputies voted 232 to 188 to turn out Incumbent Socialist André Le Troquer. whose party has been most consistently behind Mendès' policies in spite of its refusal to join his Cabinet. In Le Troquers place the Deputies elected Pierre Schneiter of the Roman Catholic M.R.P. Though Schneiter, a Resistance hero and mayor of Reims, is personally not hostile to Mendès in the fashion of Mendès-hating M.R.P.er Georges Bidault and his followers...
...South Carolina's Lieutenant Governor Ernest F. Rollings, 32, for authoring the successful bill for a secret ballot and use of voting machines in his state...
...polls to elect Mike Colikas by a vote of 2,145 to 2. After the polls were closed, the two dissident voters came around to apologize in person. They had meant to cast their votes for Mike, they said, but they were illiterate and couldn't read the ballot...
...that the full meaning and value of law are communicated to society through the law's own formal processes . . . To be effective, the rule of law must be comprehended by society, not as an esoteric concept, but as a working principle comparable to regular elections and the secret ballot; and the plain fact is that it is not so comprehended. This, I think, is an educational deficiency...