Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said he would work to put the fluoridation issue on the ballot here again and to change the state law requiring that voters be asked whether they wish to discontinue fluoridation. "We may possibly have lost on confusion Tuesday," he said. "The negative phrasing of the question may have tipped the balance...
...ballot on which House members voted merely restated the motion which the House Committee had passed after little debate last week. It asked only for votes for and against the contribution, and did not raise the constitutional issue...
...looking for a running mate. Recalls Wife Pauline: "I had been picking vice-presidential bugs off Albert for a year, but when Governor Stevenson announced the nomination was open, I looked at Albert and discovered I had missed one and it already had bitten him." On the first ballot Gore, with 178 votes, trailed Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver and hopeful Jack Kennedy; on the second he saw the handwriting, withdrew, and supported Kefauver, who won. Again in 1960 Gore thought he had a chance, was disappointed when Kennedy picked Lyndon Johnson...
Fireproof Ballots. On election day the government threw out a batch of ballots in one strongly anti-Park district of Seoul, but such "invalidations" were at a record low. "Power failures" are another standard practice in South Korea on election nights, to facilitate tampering with ballot boxes. But this time the lights went out briefly in only one city, Pusan, and not only was it a bona fide short circuit, but the Central Election Management Committee had foresightedly ordered all polls, Pusan's included, to lay in a supply of candles. Moreover, to prevent the almost customary burning...
There will be a broad appeal for registered voters to write in Henry's name on the official ballot, and a private ballot will be conducted in Negro churches to show the potential influence of the disenfranchised public...