Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rhodes, unsuccessful candidate for the State House of Representatives in Hinds County, said that many Negro voters did not go to the polls because they believed all black candidates had been taken off the ballots. Sixteen of the original 48 Independent candidates were taken off the ballot for voting in the Democratic Primary last August. In the State of Mississippi Independents are prohibited from voting in party primaries...
...resolution of the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam which appears on today's ballot condemns the war as "not in the best interests of either the American or Vietnamese people." It calls for "the prompt return home of American soldiers...
Because of the CNCV registration drive, some 3000 additional voters will probably join the 30,000 who voted in 1965. Both Mrs. Wheeler and Mrs. Ackermann supported CNCV's drive to get their petition on the ballot, but Mrs. Ackermann has become more closely identified with the group. She may pick up a large amount of "number ones" from the new voters...
...loyal San Franciscan put it more bluntly when asked to evaluate the candidates. "Do you want me," he asked, "to throw up now or later?" With so many candidates running for various offices and 16 propositions on the ballot, the registrar-of-voters' booklet detailing the issues and candidates is a record 135 pages long...
...outweighs the legal injunction against killing. Though the candidates themselves usually counsel moderation and almost never do any shooting, their followers often feel compelled by a fierce sense of honor to avenge insults-or to ensure their leader's victory by canceling out the other names on the ballot with bullets...