Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California's primary elections, Richard Nixon trotted into the winner's circle with more votes than his Democratic rival, Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown. Unopposed on the G.O.P. ballot, Native Son Nixon nevertheless attracted 59% of the registered Republicans to the polls for a rousing 1,475,595 vote of confidence-despite an attempt by Rockefeller outriders to encourage a "silent" stay-away vote. The Democrats polled 53% of their registered vote, but Brown found nothing very cheering in his 1,327,245 vote tally or the fact that his Democratic rival, Old-Age Pension Promoter George McLain, registered...
...were busier than an ant colony in their quests for delegates and deals. TIME correspondents, checking the politicians and delegates across the nation, found Jack Kennedy still well ahead despite a psychological post-summit uneasiness about his youth and lack of diplomatic experience, counted up a minimum 620 first-ballot votes for Kennedy. (Needed to win: 761.) In second place was Lyndon Johnson, with 410½ votes, grounded on the rock of the Solid South. Stuart Symington (104½ votes), Adlai Stevenson (41) and Hubert Humphrey (51½) trailed. If the voting goes into a second ballot, Kennedy...
...Idaho, Johnson's gentle politicking increased the Johnson count from one to eight delegates, with a good chance of picking up six more (and with them, after the first ballot, control of the unit-rule delegates) by convention time. At a testimonial dinner for Governor Pat Brown in Los Angeles, Johnson's impassioned plea for national unity in the face of Khrushchev's threats brought his audience to its feet in an ovation, and-according to the experts-added 15 to 20 delegates to his California score. But in New Mexico Johnson suffered a setback when Kennedy...
...Speaker Sam Rayburn, who claimed that Johnson would arrive at the Los Angeles convention a month hence with "a very minimum of 500 votes" (needed to win: 761). Johnson had not noticeably taken any delegates from Jack Kennedy, whose aides are airily claiming 700 convention votes on the second ballot. Johnson's strength was still based on the 319 of the South (including Texas) and any sizable increase was likely to come from Symington forces if Symington's chances seemed clearly doomed. But the Johnson campaign had bucked up the Kennedy holdouts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York...
Incomplete Returns. In Hot Springs, Ark., after being hired at $6 per person to tally the absentee vote in a bond election, three judges and three clerks unstuffed the ballot box, found only one ballot, which was voided because the voter had not paid his poll...