Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the first and only ballot, Goldwater was culy 30 votes below a majority--323--and more than 100 votes ahead of the New York governor. Rockefeller organizers were reportedly worried that if a second or third ballot were held. Goldwater might pick up the few voted he seeded...
Various stalling techniques were used by the Rockefeller forces: During the first ballot, delegates frequently asked that an entire state delegation be polled in lieu of accepting the state chairman's tabulation. And as the 5 p.m. limit approached, many pro-Rockefeller delegates made last minute changes in their votes, to consume time...
...Walk. Fortnight ago, the month-long polling process actually began. No literacy or property qualifications restricted the universal adult suffrage. Though torrential rains cut down the early turnout, helicopters dropped into remote villages carrying Fiberglas ballot boxes and collapsible polling booths. No voter was more than a day's walk from a polling station. In each district, natives placed their marks beside the name and picture of the candidates of their choice. In all, 299 candidates campaigned for seats in the 64-member House of Assembly; ten seats are appointive, ten reserved exclusively for white candidates, and the rest...
Favorite in the race for chairman of the Council is H. Reed Ellis '65 of Dunster House. Ellis has emerged on top of a number of former hopefuls for the office, had he may capture the job on the first ballot...
...ballot itself indicates the difficulties facing G.O.P. voters. It is a fearsome document, divided into five columns, containing some 125 names and running H ft. long. The fifth column is for the presidential and vice-presidential "popularity contest." In it are listed the avowed candidates: Goldwater, Rockefeller, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith and Harold Stassen. Two New Hampshiremen are listed, presumably just to see their names in print: Norman Lepage, a Nashua accountant who also ran in the 1962 senatorial primary; and Wayne Green of Peterborough, publisher of a ham radio magazine, who filed for Vice President. Unlisted...