Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble is restrictive registration. Most states have lengthy residence requirements before an otherwis eligible voter can cast his ballot in a national election-Mississippi being the worst, with two years. Many states also require unreasonably early registration; in Texas, it is necessary to pay a poll tax by Feb. 1, if one wants to be able to vote in November. Almost everywhere the voter is caught in a vortex of filling in forms and signing registration books. Many of these practices stem from a time when American communities were isolated; in mobile America, the system is clearly outdated. An estimated...
...Orange County, Calif., used paper ballots for its primary elections of June 1964. It took some 10,000 workers about 36 hours to complete the count, at a cost of $600,000. But by the time of the November elections, Orange County had installed something called the Coleman Vote Tally System. The voter still marks a paper ballot, but uses a special fluorescent ink. He drops the ballot into a box, which is later taken by officials to a central counting place, where its contents are fed into a computer that announces the results within moments. A control experiment...
...undergraduates will vote that day whether to keep the present form of student government permanently. Voting will take place in House dining halls. The ballot will only offer the choice of accepting or rejecting...
Neither the United Press International nor the coaches' all-star teams have been released yet. Each college coach must submit his ballot by Tuesday; the coaches' team will probably be named later this week...
...election officials were kidnaped, key opposition candidates kept off the ballots entirely. In heavy Awolowo precincts, polling places mysteriously ran out of ballots, and Akintola's party stalwarts stuffed the ballot boxes in others. "Men became pregnant with ballot papers," chortled one observer. All urns, of course, had to be shipped immediately to the regional capital at Ibadan for Akintola's "official" counting, and when it was all over, the only surprise was the size of his victory: 78 seats to 18. "The West has gone too far," said the nation's leading political commentator Peter Enahoro...