Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lifelong, convinced, prejudiced Republican, I cheer your epithet "Little Brother Bobby." Barbed, two-edged, it should induce every thinking Democrat to place an X on my side of the ballot...
Last summer fiery Bishop McManus helped organize a new Christian Action Party, which he urged all Catholics to support. Caught in a squabble over the validity of the signatures it collected to get on the ballot, the party stands little chance of keeping well-liked Governor Munoz Marin from his fourth term. Even so, Munoz was still angry enough to denounce the bishops' letter as an "incredible medieval interference in a political campaign," promised to bring up the bishops' conduct with Vatican officials after the election...
...Hare was known as an independent-thinking cuss. The unions, in a spectacular exercise of political muscle, swung behind Swainson. On primary day, 70,000 Wayne County Democrats cast "bullet" votes for Swainson; i.e., they did not even bother to vote for the other 16 contested offices on the ballot. Swainson's statewide margin of victory: just under...
...significance of choosing a particular instrument of social change--revolution, the ballot, or non-violent resistance for example--lends itself to more than a single explanation. One can interpret non-violent resistance, whether in South Africa, India, or America, in terms of realpolitik; when the other side has all the guns, it is convenient and wise to be non-violent. Or there is a moral explanation: the resisters regard violence as evil, under all circumstances. They feel that the dignity of man must be maintained even, or perhaps especially, in protest movements. And one can note that religion...
Whether it is pride in the institution of the secret ballot or fear of identification, I feel pleased that all but 34 of those called refused to answer. An inquisitor who refuses to be identified does not deserve an answer...