Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unloosing a barrage of protests against the exclusion of Communist candidates from the ballot in 13 states the recently formed Browder-Ford Club launched its campaign here in support of Earl A. Browder last night...
...same time the Student Union, the Liberal Union, and Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, issued statements condemning the exclusion of the Communist candidates from the ballot in New York, and Harvard Teachers' Union Civil Liberties Committee released a protest letter which it has sent to President Roosevelt and Attorney General Jackson...
...Massachusetts three parties, excluded by a technicality, were restored to the ballot only after the vigilant work of the local branch of the Civil Liberties Union. The tactics used in New York against the signers of the Petition of the Communist Party clearly indicate the worst kind of intimidation of the voters...
Hudson County ballot boxes sometimes contained from five to 20% fraudulent votes. Hudson County voters were moved temporarily into hotels and rooming houses to vote in districts where it would do the most good. In "a tremendous number of instances," signatures in the registration book differed from signatures in the 1938 and 1939 poll books. One woman whose signature appeared in the poll books swore to Mr. Burton she had not voted "in many years." She was blind...
...town decided to join under one government, and Smith and Moore were both put up for mayor. After two Lincoln-Douglas debates ("once on the depot platform and the other time down at the spring"), each got 100 votes. The election committee knew better than to hold another ballot, so Smith and Moore became co-mayors...