Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rigged" Guinea, elections Nkrumah for the blamed N.A.L.'s di "completely sastrous showing. The party's leaders knew better. To ensure fair elections, the military council had appointed one of Ghana's most distinguished judges to head an election commission. There were triple-sealed tin ballot boxes and acid baths for destroying unused bal lots. A major reason for Busia's over whelming majority was that both par ties appealed for tribal support - and got it. The Akans, among whom Busia is a royal prince, are four times as nu merous in Ghana...
Despite such harassment, Yablonski managed to win the endorsement of 96 U.M.W. locals, 46 more than he needs to assure himself of a place on the ballot in the union's Dec. 9 election. Boyle was nominated by 1,056 locals. Yablonski plans to push for democratization of what he calls "the most notoriously dictatorial labor union in America." In three detailed complaints filed with the Labor Department, Yablonski has accused the union of "flagrant" and "continuous" violations of federal laws that are intended to assure democratic process in union elections. Among the charges: fraud, trickery, bribery, embezzlement...
...decision handed down last week by Massachusetts' highest court is casting a shadow over the referendum for rent control in Cambridge, which was slated to be on the City's November 4 ballot...
...result of the opinion, Cambridge Elcetion Commissioner Francis Burns is asking City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin '53 whether the Cambridge rent control petition should go on the ballot. The petition had previously passed all the steps necessary for an initiative petition to get on the ballot...
From door-to-door canvassing and tables in Harvard and Central Squares, the referendum group collected the signatures of over 5000 registered voters of Cambridge asking that the measure be put on the ballot...