Word: balloting
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...name will be entered on the official ballot for more than one place. A candidate nominated for more than one place must withdraw from all but one. All withdrawals must be made before 12 m. of Tuesday...
...main purposes are embodied in the plan. First it is intended to provide a means of publishing before the election names of all men nominated and supported by a fixed number of signatures. Secondly, it is proposed to vote according to the Australian ballot system, the place of voting being kept open for a number of hours during the day. The objects of both measures are, to place all men in the class upon a more equal footing (irrespective of organization), than has been the case in the past, and furthermore to obtain a larger vote...
After examining the second part of the plan, consisting of the secret ballot system of election, the committee considers this portion also to offer a desirable improvement. Certain practical difficulties have, however, suggested themselves at this point. The chief of these is, that no man who is defeated as a candidate at the top of the ticket can be nominated for a place lower down, since no man can be nominated for more than one place...
...Harvard Forum will hold a special public debate in Sever 11, at 7.30 tonight, on the question: "Resolved, That all day voting by the Australian ballot would give greater satisfaction in the election of class officers than voting in a single evening meeting...
Owing to a mistake in paragraphing, the alternative proposition for Clause III was not put in its proper connection in the plan for class elections published in today's CRIMSON. If this third clause, prohibiting the appearance of any name on the official ballot for more than one office, had been without the alternative (placed by mistake under Clause VII), then the plan would be open to the objection pointed out in the editorial, namely, that if a prominent Senior should fail to be elected, say to a marshalship, the class would have no opportunity to give him a place...