Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Katzenbach). With that out of the way, Kennedy returned once more to New York and to the pursuit of a vast number of voters who still regard him as a power-playing outsider. So much an outsider is Bobby that he won't be able to cast a ballot in New York this fall, therefore has decided not to vote at all. "I could vote in Massachusetts," he said, "but as a resident of New York I wouldn't want to do that." Scratch one vote for Senator Teddy Kennedy, another for Lyndon Johnson...
...doing, she added: "I am still hopeful, as is the Conservative Party state leadership, that unity will be achieved behind the Goldwater-Miller ticket in New York." One way to achieve that unity would be for Governor Nelson Rockefeller to make it possible for voters to cast a ballot for Barry Goldwater on the Conservative ticket. The only way to do this is for the two parties to share the same electors. Mrs. Luce's chief aim is to achieve the maximum votes for Goldwater in New York this fall. Said she: "Senator Keating has a vote for President...
...lieutenant named Bang passed out the voting slips. In La Maison Blanche, a forlorn, peeling stucco villa overlooking Cap St. Jacques on the South China Sea, 58 officers of South Viet Nam's Military Revolutionary Council sat on hard, schoolroom-style chairs and scribbled their votes on the ballots. A colonel chalked up the results on a blackboard: Khanh, 50; Defense Minister General Tran Thien Khiem, 5; General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, 1; General Do Cao Tri, 1: blank ballot...
...Some of the ballots read, "His Excellency Charles Helou," or "Charles Bey Helou," and so on. The writing on such ballots is in fact a code. If a Deputy promises his vote to a candidate for office but there is some doubt as to whether in the actual voting he will really come through, he is instructed to phrase the ballot in a certain way, known only to the candidate and himself. When the ballot is read aloud, it thus reveals the Deputy's identity. In this typically Lebanese manner, it is possible to maintain the convention...
...they think that he may be starting too fast, promising an aggregate of twelve hours of programming a day on his three "channels." He also needs votes. The sworn foes of subscription TV are so active in California that they have succeeded in placing an initiative on the November ballot, through which voters may vote pay TV out of existence by effecting the repeal of the act that originally sanctioned the subscription project. The foes are chiefly admen, theater operators, owners of commercial TV stations and other subjective warriors, who make the argument that subscription TV may prove...