Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deserts south to the icy latitudes bordering Antarctica, some 2,000,000 Chileans, including 600,000 new voters, went to the polls last week. The voters were merely choosing municipal officials. But the elections were widely regarded as a barometer for the presidential campaign next year. Out of the ballot boxes emerged a major new power in Chilean politics: the Christian Democrats, a left-of-center but anti-Communist party that rolled up 22.8% of the vote and thus became the biggest single political group in the country...
Seymour, who was rated as a dark horse going into the meeting, defeated John P. Russo '65 on the third ballot. John R. "Rusty" Taylor '65 and Charles F. Doran '64 were eliminated after the first two votes...
Russo, whose strong bid for the chairmanship surprised many, later gained the vice-chairmanship on one ballot, defeating Taylor and Reed H. Ellis...
Some observers have detected a shift in the political winds towards Seymour, who decisively whipped Taylor in the Lowell House election for representative at large. (Taylor later gained the House Committee appointment on a close ballot...
Last week, after nine years in power, General Alfredo Stroessner, 50, held "free" presidential elections in which women were allowed to vote for the first time, and an opposition candidate appeared on the ballot for the first time in recent memory. He took no chances of course; at some polling places there were only Stroessner ballots, and no opposition observers. Stroessner was elected to a third term by a 10-to-1 margin, which gives him a mandate to continue spending Paraguay's $45 million annual budget (buttressed by $9.8 million last year in U.S. aid) as he sees...