Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nebraska and South Dakota primaries. In the Ohio primary, he would presumably run up against Governor Rhodes; in Wisconsin, Representative John Byrnes figures to be a favorite-son candidate. Oregon is an unpredictable free-for-all, for as many as a dozen people often wind up on the primary ballot, whether they want to be there...
...plurality holds up at the polls, Labor could have a margin of more than 200 seats in Parliament. The Liberals, who plan to run 400 candidates in the election, may prove an additional threat to the government, since they usually capture two Tory votes to every Labor ballot...
...while, Hughes workers were optimistic. They had stunned the state by getting twice the required 73,000 signatures needed to put Hughes on the ballot. Gradually Hughes gained acceptance as a legitimate candidate: Republican candidate George Lodge even agreed to debates him on television...
...political concern was in transition. The 1950's had been notoriously sterile--at Harvard, only a food drive for India and a movement in sympathy with the Hungarian Freedom Fighters had aroused much student concern. It was common knowledge that college campuses cared more about stuffing telephone boothes than ballot boxes...
...change, the government could boast of an honest election. "Live men voted," proclaimed Premier Assadollah Alam, aware of the departure from the old days when corpses' votes were stuffed into the ballot boxes by the thousands. No longer did landlords transport villagers to the polls in trucks, with their prepaid votes in hand. For the first time in a parliamentary election, veiled women in wrap-around chadors lined up with the menfolk at polling booths. Although the Shah put anti-reform Moslem mullahs (priests) under house arrest, barred political rallies, and closed up 75 Teheran dailies and weeklies...