Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noisy Backfire. Carefully hand-picked as the candidate by G.O.P. leaders, Clifford Case, an Eisenhower Republican, nevertheless ran into trouble not long after the campaign began. A small, reactionary G.O.P. faction began trying to force Case off the ballot on the grounds that he was 1) a weak candidate, and 2) not a Republican. Led by James P. Selvage, a onetime (1933-38) pressagent for the National Association of Manufacturers, the anti-Case faction contended that the nominee was a dangerous left-winger, the darling of the C.I.O. and of the Americans for Democratic Action...
...which has found both Case and Howell "endorsable"), is a minuscule organization with no real political strength. But to the ultraconservative element of New Jersey, it was a handy bad word to tie to Cliff Case. From the start, the movement had no chance of getting Case off the ballot. No important leader of New Jersey Republicanism ever joined it. There was talk about a write-in campaign for former U.S. Representative Fred Hartley (Taft-Hartley), but no one thought has-been Hartley would get many votes...
Under Brazil's archaic voting system, each ballot is sealed in a separate envelope at the polling place; tellers at the central counting stations must verify each envelope, open it by hand, and record the choices. There was a lot of recording to do: up for election were all 327 House of Deputies seats, two-thirds of the 60 Senate's seats, eleven out of 20 state governorships, and many lesser offices. In Rio's Maracana Stadium last week, 60 groups of election clerks counted away amid milling onlookers, nervous candidates, Coca-Cola vendors and party observers...
From members of the U.S. Senate there was little comment. Most of the Senators whose names will be on the ballot Nov. 2 wanted to take no public stand until after the ballots are cast. This was true of Democrats as well as Republicans. Polling fellow Democrats about the timing of the Senate's special session to consider the report, Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson had argued that a vote before election would put more Democrats than Republicans on the spot because more Democratic incumbents are seeking reelection...
According to the proposed plan for a combined election, each candidate for the permanent committee will have to state on his ballot whether or not he would be willing to accept election to the Class Day Committee if he were to lose the more important permanent committee election. The highest 12 would then become members of the Permanent Class Committee. The ten candidates polling the next highest number of votes would be members of the Class Day Committee...