Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special ballot for those unable to attend the polls has been printed in today's CRIMSON and should be marked and mailed before mid-night tonight...
Participants in the straw vote today, will choose between either Herbert Hoover and Calvin Coolidge as Republican standard bearers or one of the nine Democrats listed on the ballot: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith, John N. Garner, Albert C. Ritchie, Newton D. Baker, William H. Murray, Samuel Seabury, Robert J. Bulkley, or James A. Reed. Men will also be asked to indicate their party sympathies...
...each ballot, in addition to indicating choice for the presidency, every voter will also be asked to name the party sympathies which he held in 1928. as well as to give the name of his home state. Voters will also be asked to sign the ballots...
...North Dakota primary usually lacks political meaning. The voters are free to ballot in either party and their presidential preferences in no wise bind convention delegates elected separately but simultaneously. Governor Murray, campaigning excitedly as an apostle of discontent, had purposely picked North Dakota for the first test of his political strength outside Oklahoma. He confidently expected to turn agrarian radicalism to his own benefit. Yet Governor Roosevelt not only swept the preference voting but won nine of the State's ten Democratic convention delegates. The only delegate Governor Murray got to add to his 22 from Oklahoma...
...Republican convention delegates elected in North Dakota's primary last week (see p. 16j, were Hooverites. The eleventh was independent. President Hoover was not a candidate in the Republican preference voting where Dr. Joseph Irwin France beat "General" Jacob S. Coxey three-to-two in a notably light ballot. Since he did not win a single convention delegate. Dr. France's victory was meaningless...