Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race. Wilhelm Joerres, a sometime hairdresser and lifeguard, promised that if elected he would spend his first week in City Hall in the nude. Restaurateur Robert le Bugle campaigned as the candidate for "peace, love, happiness." Two candidates used nicknames in their listings on the official ballot for the powerful, $38,365-a-year office...
Least Unqualified. "The ballot should be reserved for serious candidates," admonished the San Francisco Examiner in an angry editorial. "It should not be allowed to become a vehicle for publicity seekers or anyone who wishes to indulge in an ego-inflating pastime or pursue some fleeting obsession...
...students will work under the direction of the candidates, helping them to organize the final drive for votes and, on election day, supervise the elections and recording any irregularities such as ballot box stuffing...
...additional signatures would allow the state's voters in 1968 to direct the Secretary of State to place the question of a Convention on the ballot in 1971. And even then, the voters could reject the idea...
Getting an issue onto the ballot is an operation requiring several thousand petition signatures in as many as three stages. DiCara hopes to recruit student volunteers from local colleges as his chief source of manpower...