Word: balloters
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...intend to use television the extent to which our limited funds will allow us," he continued. "We are operating on a shoe-string budget, but now that I'm on the ballot, several national programs that have shown the other candidates have promised...
Independent H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History at Harvard, became the first Massachusetts candidate for the U.S. Senate to assure himself a place on November's ballot Tuesday morning, when he submitted to state election officials over 117,000 valid signatures on petitions endorsing his candidacy...
...announced that he had submitted to town clerks over 147,000 signatures for validation, despite the reported loss of over 6,000 signatures from the Worcester and Pittsfield areas. The net total of 117,000 gave him a comfortable margin over the 75,000 needed to get on the ballot...
...optimistic," Hughes told reporters at his press conference. "I thought we might get 100,000 signatures and just get on the ballot with 75,000 validations. This is our first victory...
Hughes supporters feared that other Senatorial candidates might try to keep their candidate off the ballot and thus made special efforts to insure that petitions were properly signed. About 70 to 80 percent of the signatures are being validated...