Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1950's dramatic reversal, Bliss and the Ohio G.O.P. have suffered only one important setback. In 1958 a group of politically myopic Ohio businessmen succeeded in getting a right-to-work referendum on the ballot despite Bliss's impassioned warnings that the move would prove to be political poison. Governor William O'Neill endorsed right-to-work and lost, along with Senator John Bricker and scores of other Republicans. Furious at the costly meddling by amateurs, Bliss called 135 leading Ohio Republicans to a meeting, gave them a three-hour lecture course in practical politics...
Transit Gloria. Perhaps the boldest civic-works program on any ballot confronted the voters in three San Francisco Bay area counties. For years, San Francisco has been choking on traffic, despite a growing number of bridges and freeways. Forty-eight lanes of freeways now wind around the city, and 32 more are in the works. But city planners estimated that an additional 40 would be necessary to handle the region's projected population jump from 2,500,000 to 4,000,000 in the next decade...
Chester Hartman, one of the Hughes' aides working on the vote analysis, pointed out that Hughes' comparatively large Cambridge vote was a special case explained by two factors. The Harvard vote and a "chauvinistic" vote prompted by the listing of the candidates' home residence on the ballot both swelled the Hughes total, according to Hartman...
...yesterday evening, election officials discovered a major ballot mix-up in Holyoke. In the gubernatorial contest, Peabody's 12,000 votes had been given to Volpe, and Volpe's 8000 to Peabody. Switching the votes back again increased Peabody's lead...
Attorney-Gen. Edward J. McCormack late last night ordered all ballot boxes impounded and placed under 24-hour police guard...