Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Fiske Bradford of Boston and Russell Robb Jr. of Concord, were elected by the Senior Class yesterday to be its two representatives on the Student Council for the year, 1922-23. Ballots were cast by ninety members of the class, each man voting for two nominees. One ballot was cast out. Bradford was first in the voting, with a total of 57, while Robb was a close second with 54 registered in his favor...
...believe the postal ballot would solve the difficulty. A suggestion for this method which appears plausible would be as follows...
...After the closing date for nominations by petition, a second card should be sent to each member of the class giving the final list of nominations, explaining the method of balloting, and announcing a closing date before which all ballots should be returned through the mail. Included in the same envelope with this card should be a ballot and a stamped envelope addressed: "Election Chairman (class). Harvard Crimson, Plympton St., Cambridge". On the upper left-hand corner of the enclosed stamped envelope there should be a ruled line with the word "signed" printed next to it where each man returning...
...method, on the other hand would bring the election as closely as is possible to each man in the class. It would preserve the secrecy of the ballot it would lighten much of the work which now falls on the shoulders of the Election Chairman. It might even receive thus through the mail, especially with the incentive of a stamped envelope, as ready a response as floods the Cambridge post office now in answer to the social invitations in Boston,--or would the ballots have to be engraved? R. P. BULLARD...
...second day's balloting in the elections of officers for the Sophomore Class only about 300 votes have been cast. Figuring on the basis of a sixty percent ballot about 200 more are needed to make the election valid...