Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decrees casually dispensed with the secret ballot. Instead, to save "unnecessary paper work," voters will go before election boards and orally proclaim their choices. First they will elect members of an assembly to write a new constitution...
...force a rigid, Soviet-style show of unanimity out of the people. More likely, the election was scheduled to provide a form of constitutional legality for his regime before any strong opposition could develop. Ironically, all present signs show that he could have won a free and secret ballot just about as easily...
...time the Advertiser railed over Act 907 which denies the ballot to communists and to members of a communist front organization. This act also provided that communists must be fingerprinted by the Department of Public Safety and to turn in the police the names of all others who think as they...
...Nerve of Failure. Riesman has counseled his fellow intellectuals to stop worrying about whether their judgments are approved in the market place or the ballot box, to pursue the truth as independent men, affecting society as models of autonomy, not as victors on this public issue or that. He notes that the young TV audience tells the "good guys" from the "bad guys" simply because the "good guys" are winning. This he deplores...
Citizen's Duty. In Baraboo, Wis., James Lee Roper, held in the county jail on a murder charge, wrote Town Clerk Carl Hirschinger: "It may be inconvenient for me to get to the polls to vote next Tuesday; I would like an absentee ballot...