Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the present system, voters in Cambridge Council and School Committee elections receive a single ballot which lists the names of all candidates in alphabetical order without party affiliation. The voter marks his first choice with a 1, second choice with a 2, etc., listing as many preferences as he wishes...
When voters believe the ballot has no meaning, abstentions can speak as loudly as an electoral landslide. One party showed ominous strength, though it won no seats at all. It was the National Front, a loose, left-wing coalition that rallies behind old Mohammed Mossadegh, the Red-lining former Premier who has lived under tacit house arrest since leaving prison in 1956. Convinced that the election would be fraudulent, the National Front ordered it boycotted. And last week the Front was taking credit for the fact that of 600,000 eligible voters in the capital city of Teheran, only...
...view of this policy for Council elections, the letter continued, the Time story "could hardly have been more unjustified." As written by Marc J. Roberts '64, the letter was ratified by 15 of 18 voting members. President Phillips did not vote, since he can only do so if his ballot will be the deciding...
...Legislature will probably neither initiate reform nor call a referendum to vote on a convention. A petition of 75,000 names would then force the question onto the ballot in 1962 and the body would meet in the summer of 1963. In the end it might give the governor and other top executive officers co-terminous 4-year terms and shift the counties' few duties to the state agencies; it might cut the size of the General Court and require it no longer to play town council for every hamlet, passing petitions for dog wardens' tenure and the like...
...course, the Republicans were a bit concerned over the serviceman's ballot; they didn't make the decision until after the election...