Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...myself, can tell three minutes ahead of time what he [Mr. Coolidge] is going to do." It was denied at the White House that Calvin Coolidge was planning to make a speech in Massachusetts. Nor had he decided whether to go to Northampton to vote, or to mail his ballot...
...scarcely one to encourage their interest in such matters. The fact that a man's business or studies compel him to be away from home on Election Day should not be enough to deprive him of the franchise, and the danger, from fraud is no greater when the ballot is sent by mail than when it is deposited in a box at the booths. Much progress has already been made in a steadily increasing number of states towards the elimination of this injustice, and before the next presidential election comes around it should be possible for every student...
...Phelps is put first because he is a New York Assemblyman and thereby the political senior of Mrs. Pratt, who is only a New York City Alderman (albeit the first New York woman alderman in history). He is also put first because he drew top place on the ballot, after performing a "luck rite." Just before the drawing, he rushed out of the Board of Elections office and touched a Negro on the shoulder...
...party or another. Thus came the final transformation and the practice that is universal today. In each State, each party names its ticket of electors. The names of the national nominees for whom they are pledged to vote are usually printed in big type at the top of the ballot. That ticket of electors is the winner which receives a popular plurality, and to their Nominees goes the entire electoral vote of that State. In case there are three or more tickets of electors and the winning ticket gets less than half of all the votes cast, the majority...
...Knight of Columbus to enlighten myself fully upon my duties as a citizen and to conscientiously perform such duties entirely in the interests of my country and regardless of all personal consequences. I pledge myself to do all in my power to preserve the integrity and purity of the ballot, to promote reverence and respect for law and order. I promise to practice my religion openly and consistently, but without ostentation, and to so conduct myself in public affairs, and in the exercise of public virtue as to reflect nothing but credit upon the Holy Church, to the end that...