Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poll tax. ¶In Texas, a straight anti-poll-tax 2 amendment went down by a 24,000-vote margin. ¶Campaign strategists for Senator Robert Taft got off to a flying start in the 1950 elections by steering through an amendment eliminating straight-ticket voting from the Ohio ballot and substituting the "Masachusetts ballot," which lists all candidates alphabetically by office and without regard to party. Taft supporters, who feared the drawing power of popular Democratic Governor Frank Lausche at the top of a straight-ticket ballot, figured the change was worth 100,000 votes to the Republicans next...
Cambridge votes on a preferential ballot. Thus tomorrow the votes of candidates who are out of the running will be distributed among the leaders...
Cambridge, which votes on a preferential ballot elected its Councilmen in the following order: Edward A. Crane '35, Hyman Bill, Joseph A. DeGuglielino '29, John D. Lynch, W. Donnison Swan '17, Thomas M. McNamara, Edward J. Sullivan, John J. Foley, and Higley. Running touth and eased out of his seat was Francis L. Sennot...
Inside Job. In Newport, Ky., after 45 members of the police department had voted on a trustee for their pension fund, Chief George Gugel called the whole election off: the ballot box contained 51 ballots...
...ballot, too, will be the referendum to change the city's charter from Plan B to Plan A. Under the new plan, the city council would be reduced from 22 to 9 members and each election year a run-off primary would be held to reduce the field of candidates for mayor, councilman and school committeeman to two. Most important, the new charter would permit the council to override the veto of the mayor on all bills except loans and appropriations, by a two-thirds vote. Since this is the only referendum on the ballot, there is a very strong...