Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate struggle than any of the round-the-clock oratory or pungent rhetoric. The right to vote is so basic a right that the right to filibuster could not hope to stand successfully against it. And federal guarantee of voting rights would ultimately lead Negroes via the ballot box toward all the other equal rights that have been denied them...
...Republican hope that Richard Nixon's name on the ballot will help keep G.O.P. voters from crossing over to the Democratic line on primary day, the same state official adds that this may not hold true for Roman Catholic Republicans. "Kennedy's candidacy has produced great emotional response among the Catholics," said he. "They'll cross over in droves to vote for Kennedy in the primary...
...much of a contest, but it did at least familiarize Pakistanis with election techniques against the day when a constitution is written and a freer democracy promised. Voters marked their ballots in curtained privacy, dropped them in padlocked steel ballot boxes; after tally clerks had tabulated the results, fleet couriers hopped on horse or camel, or jumped into autos or motorboats, to hurry to the nearest telegraph office. Many Pakistan electors decorated their ballots with Urdu or Bengali verses in praise of Sandhurst-trained Field Marshal Ayub, attached bills and checks payable to Ayub's favorite uplift projects...
...Ballot...
Indiana primary (May 3, 34 delegate votes, bound on the first ballot only), then set out on a highly successful round of handshaking, speechmaking and backroom planning...