Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reiterates, "Transylvania-umpteen votes for Hooridge." Unless spectators have rare good seats, they hear little but the candidate's name, because all the delegates go on conversing, arguing or registering enthusiasm all over the pandemoniac convention floor. If a State's vote changes materially between one ballot and the next, the distant spectator will discover it, not through any change of expression in that State's delegates, but by cheers or booes from other delegations. The delegates whose votes have shifted will sit quietly, having done nothing but what they were told to do by their Boss...
...Pomerene." I wish to correct this statement. The undersigned was elected one of the delegates from the Capital City District of Ohio, as an avowed supporter of Governor Al Smith, and defeated one of the candidates pledged to Senator Pomerene. I shall vote for Governor Smith on the first ballot, and such other ballots as may be necessary to nominate...
There, in a corner decked with sweet smelling blossoms, the president of the German Empire† found a polling box and gravely deposited therein his ballot...
...confined my questioning to such decisions as affected the ballot-box fortunes of the Negro in Dixie, and in not one case did Senator Glass either (1) decline to comment; (2) ask me to treat anything he said as confidential; or (3) request me to tone down the fervent quality of his responses...
...resolution of the Eastern Intercollegiate Debate League which leaves to a vote of the audience decisions in all League debates marks an improvement in the mechanics of this exercise. Not only will the audience cast its vote at the conclusion of the debate, but it will ballot on the question before the discussion starts. A decided shift in opinion in the second vote from the first will indicate a new conviction on the part of the audience, a conviction established by the arguments of one debating team...