Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Subject: "Resolved, That a young man casting his first ballot in 1892 should cast it for the nominees of the Democratic party...
...candidate may be put in nomination by receiving the endorsement of 100 alumni. The nominations are to be made ten days before Commencement to the secretary of the board of overseers. The names with classes, occupation and records of the candidates are to be made into an official ballot which alone will be received and which is to be marked with the X as in the Australian system. The committee of the overseers in charge of the elections shall print the official list of candidates in two newspapers in Boston before the elections...
...connection with today's election it may be interesting to examine the qualifications necessary for a student to vote. Any citizen who wishes to cast his ballot must register (registration for this year closed a week ago Saturday), and must have paid some state or county tax, assessed upon him in any part of the commonwealth within two years of election day. He must also possess a domicil in the city or town where he wishes to vote. Whether students posses such a domicil in Cambridge or not is a question which has been little understood, though the law seems...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in 12 sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
...first ballot for each office shall be informal. After the first formal ballot all but the four candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be dropped. and the candidates receiving the smallest number of votes at each successive ballot shall be dropped after that ballot...