Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cent, or more of the members of the class, the elections of the classes of 1921 and 1922 did not represent such a majority. In order to make all class elections in the future representative of the class the Executive Committee of the Student Council has offered for a ballot at the meeting of 1923 in the Union the following amendments...
Section 11. If at any election a sufficient number of votes are not cast at the first ballot, further balloting shall be held at intervals of not more than ten days, suffrage being restricted to those members who have not already voted, until a sufficient number of votes have been cast...
...many voters in the United States today consider the ballot but an immediate opportunity to express their personal feelings on this or that question which comes to the polls. A flagrant and disgraceful example of thoughtless vacillation in the use of the franchise is seen in the result of the recent vote of the town meetings of Massachusetts. Last year the inhabitants of nearly every town within forty miles of Boston voted "dry" by a large margin, when the question of prohibition was considered. On Monday these same towns polled not only a marginal plurality but in nearly every case...
...Freshmen will vote for their 1923 class officers today in the Standish Hall Common Room between 8 and 6 o'clock. As usual the system of preferential voting will be used throughout, except in the election of the Student Council representative. Every ballot must be marked with the first, second and third choice for each of the three class officers...
...first watchers can obtain the ballot blanks, ballot-box, and check list at the CRIMSON at 8 o'clock this evening...