Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Illinois, which Kennedy carried by 8,849 out of 4,750,000 votes, recounters last week had waded through only 56 of Cook County's 906 paper-ballot precincts, and Republicans claimed a net gain of 451 votes for Nixon. In New Jersey, Republicans called off the fight after early recounts came up with small Kennedy gains. In Missouri, recounts cannot get under way unless and until they are authorized by the Democrat-controlled state legislature, which does not meet again until January, just several days before the inauguration of President-elect Kennedy...
...Republican high command began to wonder if they weren't worth a bet. Three days after election, G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston Morton had asked party leaders in eleven states to evaluate the narrow Democratic results and see whether expensive recounts (e.g., $50 a ballot box or voting machine in Pennsylvania) would be worthwhile. Most of the party leaders sent negative replies. But last week, after an emergency meeting of the National Committee in Washington, G.O.P. investigators moved into eight marginal states (Illinois, Texas, Missouri, New Mexico, Nevada, South Carolina, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) for a "close, hard look...
...Jackson was done out of the presidency in 1824.* the demand for reform intensified. Fuel was added to the flames in 1876, when Democrat Samuel J. Tilden outcounted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in popular votes, but lost on the electoral tally in a contest that reeked of bribery and ballot stuffing. In 1888 Democrat Grover Cleveland won a popular plurality, but Republican Benjamin Harrison carried the college. As years passed, reformers proposed more than 100 constitutional amendments that would change the electoral college system, but conservatives and champions of the federal system scuttled them...
Here, hour by hour (in Eastern Standard Time), is how the ballot boxes told one of the big political stories of the generation...
...prime concern among O'Connor supporters in the closing days of the campaign was whether Kennedy would endorse (beyond the standard telegram sent to all candidates) O'Connor when the senator came to Boston last Monday. Kennedy did, but Massachusetts split its ballot...