Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yugo-Slavia, work on an entirely different principle than do those in other lands. In the first place, much depends upon whether the Government in power wants to remain in power. Usually it does and, to achieve its desired end, it uses many means. Sometimes it is bribery, often ballot changing, occasionally death, imprisonment or illegal disenfranchisement-all of which efforts are destined to increase the Government's plurality...
...Board of Overseers of the University will no longer be elected at polls in the Yard on commencement day, but will be chosen only by postal ballot. This decision, made yesterday by the overseers' committee, shatters a custom which has stood since its inauguration...
...postal ballot has been in use for three years, but the traditional polls in the Yard were still used so alumni who had not already voted by mail could cast their vote on commencement day. Last year only 165 men voted in the Yard out of a total vote of 7163. Inasmuch as the Yard polls seemed of little use now and required the time and work of several men on a day when it meant a sacrifice on their part, the committee recommended to the corporation that the ballot boxes should no longer be placed in the Yard...
...view of the ample facilities given to the alumni to vote by postal ballot and the small number of votes cast on commencement day, your committee unanimously recommends that the commencement day balloting be abolished and that the alumni of the college be duly notified...
...unfortunate effect of a presidential campaign is that it drains the public mind of political interest. Having cast a ballot, the voter returns to his cares and amusements, vaccinated against any immediate recurrence of the political fever. The consequence is that questions which before election arouse the greatest heat are decided after election without striking a spark of interest: for example, Muscle Shoals...