Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solution for the election problem offered in this morning's communication and in the editorial column, is certainly the best suggestion yet made. It has one obvious flaw, however: the suggestion that each member of the class shall vote for only one name on the ballot. Under this arrangement, there might conceivably be two or three men equally popular with a large part of the class; but through the limited vote, only one of them might be elected. This one man might receive 250 votes, while several other candidates, representing smaller groups in the class, might be elected with only...
...nominations be made by petition, twelve names being a sufficient number. Let all the candidates so named be placed on a single ballot, each voter then voting for one man, and consider everyone receiving thirty-five votes or more as elected. Thus every portion of the lcass will be represented, if it include but thirty-five men. The candidates receiving the three highest number of votes will, however, become respectively President, Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer. At its first meeting the Class Committee will choose the Student Council members, each member of the Committee having in this...
...remains to point out the advantages of such a system. First! all nominations being made by petition, each candidate will be on an equal basis with the other nominees. Second: because all groups can be represented on the ballot, interest will change from a luke-warm sixty per cent to an active eighty or ninety per cent at least. Third: since anyone has an equal opportunity for nomination no one can give as a reason for not voting that he does not know the nominees. With such a system not only would practically everyone know at least...
...their class-mates who become candidates for office. "Harvard indifference" and "Harvard snobbishness" have prevented them from acquiring any intimate knowledge upon which to base their choice of officers; and under these conditions it would be handle honorable for them to select any of the names mentioned in the ballot. Their choice would have to be determined by nationality, hearsay, or some such ridiculous principle as musical assonance or rhythm...
...then," the Election Committee might demand, "do not the disgruntled ones propose their own candidates, and have their names entered in the ballot, according to the charter of the class" We answer: Simply because they realize the hopeless impotence of their isolated votes as compared with the united vote of those gentlemen who know, or think they know, the popular candidates. Furthermore, they do not wish to go through the tedious process of circulating a petition and soliciting signatures...