Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cases in which the Gov ernment and the Star were involved. During the late 1930s, the Star finally began to slam away at the corrupt Pendergast machine, which had given Truman his start in politics. The FBI moved in, and 259 politicos were found guilty of vote fraud and ballot-box stuffing. In 1946, the Star again struck at the Pendergast machine. But this time, said Roberts, under the Truman Administration the FBI came in only after the evidence had been destroyed in a mysterious explosion and conviction was impossible...
Filipinos have a euphemism which they apply these days to corrupt practices, whether of the minor variety, as in the recent stuffing of a beauty-contest ballot box, or of the grand public crookedness which too often prevails in the islands. The word is "anomalies." It first began to be used after the war, to refer to deals in surplus war stocks. The government has even set up a special "anomalies tribunal" to try offenders. What the plain people would rather have is government free of anomalies...
Hearst's name had been omitted accidentally from the original ballot, the Student Council printed up a second version, this time with all 24 names, and a revote was held Wednesday afternoon...
...Council blundered at the noon election by leaving Peter S. Hearst name off the ballot. After lunch Hearst was asked how he and his friends felt about the error and said, "We are disappointed that all the work we have put into the Smoker campaign has been in vain, and feel that the only fair way of making up for the mistake would be to hold another election with my name on the ballot...
...hours later, Cliff Alexander '55, in charge of the Smoker election, admitted that the Council had made a serious error but said that the names of all 24 duly qualified candidates would appear on the ballot when the election was re-run that evening...