Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge's controversial system of proportional representation has with-stood a ballot recount demanded by its chief opponent, the Cambridge Young Democratic Association...
According to Massachusetts law, the PR question cannot be placed on the ballot again for four years, but Lawrence W. Brennan, president of the Young Democrats, said last night that his organization "is considering legislative action to get the law changed...
Brennan said that if the legislature does not act to change the State law, the young Democrats may attempt to get the PR question on the ballot next year "by changing parts of the proposal...
Along the same lines, Peabody proposed that the lieutenant-governor run on the same ballot with the governor...
...dentist's chair. Voting on 85-year-old Konrad Adenauer's re-election to a fourth term as West Germany's Chancellor, no fewer than 26 of 241 Christian Democrats present showed their distaste for their party leader by dropping blank white cards into the plastic ballot box. When all the ballots were counted, der Alte had squeaked through with only eight more votes than the required majority of 250. Many delegates ostentatiously sat on their hands, and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, who had been cruelly punished by Adenauer for his own feeble bid for the chancellorship...