Word: balloters
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...their right to vote by local officials. Obvious advantages of the referee proposal: unlike the registrar plan that applied to federal elections only, it would apply to all elections; a referee need not stop at registration but would be able to follow a complaint from voting list to ballot box to final tally of the vote. Aimed at strengthening the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the referee plan, said Rogers, was "in line with the spirit of the recommendations of the commission...
...first legislature was gaveled into its second session. Fortuitously, a "Capital-Site Steering Committee" came around with petitions bearing the signatures of 13,000 Alaskans who want the capital moved from fog-plagued Juneau westward to the Fairbanks-Anchorage area; the question will go on next November's ballot. But after a few reports were read, Alaskan lawmakers had reason to think about some far more fundamental aspects of Alaskan statehood...
...wins big in Wisconsin Kennedy thinks he can head off any sort of manipulation by building a bloc of votes big enough to win on the first ballot. Future targets: Michigan's 51 votes, officially open to persuasion last week after Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams admitted that he does not have "any chance" of a place on the ticket; New Jersey's 41 votes, now of little use to once-hopeful Governor Robert Meyner. On the strength of a Wisconsin popular victory, Kennedy backers in New Jersey would put on the pressure for a switch away from...
Henning expressed his approval of the Faculty-student committee for having "the best interests of College drama in mind." Selection of plays, he noted, will not be made by a technical vote, with each student and Faculty member having one ballot. The committee will seek instead to reach a common consent...
...Jack Kennedy's challenge to come out and fight in the primary elections, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington promised, on a TV program, to "take my campaign into the homes, to the street corners and to the farms"-indeed, almost everywhere except to the primary ballot boxes. Symington also plans to advance his candidacy at a series of high-caloric political banquets, starting with a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Springfield, Mo., with Pennsylvania's Governor David Lawrence as the featured speaker, and a testimonial dinner in St. Louis on Feb. 20, with Harry Truman presiding...