Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular ballot was added a referendum worded as follows...
...Every ballot in order to be counted must be in the hands of the Sophomore ballot committee by tomorrow midnight. To facilitate and encourage the immediate return of the ballots, each Junior classman will receive with his ballot a stamped envelope; addressed to Thayer Cummings '26, chairman of the Sophomore ballot committee which last year's officers of the Junior class have appointed to count the ballots. The other three members on this committee are C. O'D. Iselin '26, Moorfield Story 2nd '26, and V. F. Righter...
...Junior classmen will only be required to vote for officers, there being no referendum concerning the advisability of abolishing the ruling that 60 per cent of a class must vote in order to make an election valid, attached on the ballot...
...blessing in the future. Proposed originally because there was too little interest in the middle class elections, the rule has not even theory, much less practical success, to recommend it; interest in class elections, it has been proved, can not be awakened by legislation. If the postal ballot method of election does not succeed both in appealing to the voter's interest and catering to his love of ease, nothing will succeed and it is time to abolish Sophomore and Junior class elections...
...Junior class election of officers will get under way tomorrow when every member of the class will receive through the mail a ballot accompanied by a stamped envelope addressed to the committee on elections. The ballots must be in the hands of the committee on Thursday evening at midnight in order to count in the election. There will be no referendum on the ballot...