Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choice of TIME'S men of the years since then has never been determined by popular ballot; it is decided by the questions that the editors put to themselves: Who did the most to change the news of the year? Or who, in all the fields of achievement, earned the biggest claim to fame...
...Briton in khaki shorts stood nearby in a thatched mud hut that served as a polling station. The Shilluk voters hesitated, fingering the red-painted beads of flesh that stand out on their foreheads, peering at a row of empty gasoline cans-the ballot boxes. Asked a Shilluk: "Into which can do we drop the magic paper?" Said the white man: "You must choose...
...tally, said the company padded the list by hiring 500 strikebreakers. But even the toughest union man admitted that the strike was going badly, largely for two reasons: 1) the union had picked a poor time with Christmas coming up, and 2) it had neglected to take a secret ballot which might have shown the lack of enthusiasm...
...ailing President Elpidio Quirino. Quirino men who came to power in a corrupt election four years ago had orders to win at all costs. The country seethed with reports-some true, some floated by the opposition-of administration money to juggle poll-watching police and army officers, to stuff ballot boxes, to buy Quirino votes and to intimidate Magsaysay voters...
Voters in one barrio went to the polls with envelopes containing carbon paper, so they could make copies of their ballots to prove they had voted for Quirino's Liberal, ticket, as required by the men who bought their votes. In Pasay a city near Manila, armed toughs marched into several polling places and made off with the ballot boxes. In Precinct 99 of Manila, a masked man deposed the election commissioner and announced that he would count the votes. His tally: Quirino. 149; Magsaysay. 1. There was some violence, ten deaths (six of them in gang-ridden Cavite...