Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the total of 18 candidates, three Houses, Dudley, Leverett, and Winthrop, will not be represented on the ballot...
...first ballot Butler won easily, rolling up 70 votes. DiSalle got 18 votes, Finnegan...
...several places. But Rhee's largesse had convinced several balky Assemblymen that in dalliance there was further reward. When the secret vote was counted, Vice Chairman of the Assembly Choi Soon Joo regretfully announced that the proposal had received only 135 votes, just two-thirds of one ballot less than required, "therefore the amendments are defeated...
...Bonus for Votes. Several political inventions have helped spawn Uruguay's many factions. The most wondrous is the "double simultaneous ballot," which lets the voter pick the party he wants to win the major offices and at the same time choose candidates to fill these offices from the particular faction that he favors within the party. Also making for splintering is a freehanded provision of the law, designed to cover campaign expenses, that requires the government to pay each group $1.30 in advance for every vote it expects to get. (After the election, they have to pay back...
Candidates at the meeting objected to the Council's plan of a "preferential system of ballot counting." They claimed that only the first names on a ballot counted. Each voter lists eight names in order of preference...