Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though both owe their victories primarily to a unified Negro vote. After three summers of violence in the cities, this in itself is a reassuring portent. It will be up to Mayors Stokes and Hatcher to demonstrate that the only constructive-and indeed, tolerable -force in American politics is ballot power...
...tokenism," black militants purposefully helped Stokes and Hatcher by avoiding violence in their cities this past summer. In Cleveland the byword was "Cool it for Carl." The more moderate majority of Negroes, who all too often in the past have been too apathetic, fearful or despairing to use the ballot as an effective weapon, this time showed rare cohesion and voted their interests. If bloc voting wins no seal of approval in civics texts, it has been the device by which every ethnic group in American history has exerted and earned its political muscle...
...precinct captain for the CNCV had told us not to argue; argument would only irritate the hawks and drive them to the polls. Remind the doves that the referendum is on the ballot, he said, and that there is an organization out there working to end the war. Most important, encourage the undecided; don't antagonize them, but give them a little talk and the pamphlet of Boston Globe antiwar editorials. The CNCV could count on only about fifteen percent of Cambridge to vote against the war. The great hope was with the undecided...
...Proportional representation is an intolerable system, but everyone is always amused to see us down here throwing the ballots around the room. People really like to watch the rise and fall of candidates," on ballot counter commented yesterday...
Most observers attribute Ackermann's strong showing to the voters who turned out to vote in favor of the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam's anti-war petition. The votes on the petition will not be couned until Nov. 28. A similar petition on the San Francisco ballot Tuesday lost by a 2-1 margin...