Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state's popularity contest presidential primary, gave Vice President Richard Nixon a whopping 949,000 votes: the total will probably top President Eisenhower's 1956 primary record (952,000) when the slow tally is finished. Nixon was the only candidate with his name printed on the ballot but did not campaign in the state...
...Teen-agers in 50 states, voting on a presidential ballot circulated by Wesleyan University's three school publications, picked Nixon (441,900) over Kennedy (324,065). Overall, the Democrats (Kennedy, Stevenson, Johnson, Humphrey and Symington) won 515,466 votes against Nixon. Wesleyan's 1956 classroom poll of nonvoters came within 1.3% of predicting the proportion of the popular vote given Eisenhower...
...State Herter, implicitly reminding Rhee that South Korea owes both its birth and continued existence to the U.S.. sharply deplored Rhee's resort to "repressive measures unsuited to a free democracy." urged him to "take necessary and effective action aimed at . . . preserving the secrecy of the ballot and preventing unfair discrimination against political opponents...
...Apologize. Trading on the vast prestige that his 35-year fight for Korean freedom gave him with Korea's masses, autocratic Syngman Rhee, 85, has long ridden roughshod over anyone who dared oppose him politically. But in last month's election, his party's reliance on ballot stuffing and terrorism (TIME, March 21 et seq.) took on unprecedented proportions. Masan has long been a stronghold of opposition to Rhee's Liberals. In 1956 the people of Masan gave Rhee only half as many votes as Progressive Party Candidate Cho Bong Am (later hanged by Rhee...
...line sinkers, and any number of imaginatively colored limousines. In 1930 he decided, a couple of months before Election Day, to run for the governorship of Kansas (he promised a lake in each county), and his write-in campaign might well have succeeded had not the Republican and Democratic ballot counters joined hands against...