Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond, candidate of the bolting Dixiecrats (TIME, July 26), confirmed the birth of a fourth party (the States' Rights Democrats), announced that it would try to get on the ballot in every state. Said he: "We are running for President and Vice President and expect to be elected...
...Populi. In Oklahoma City, Election Board Secretary Winfred P. Fowler got back an absentee ballot from a vacationing woman with a sweeping criticism: "I don't like the names of any of the men you sent me. Please mail me another list...
Theoretically, St. Laurent should be within reach of a majority on the first ballot of the 1,299 convention delegates. He will have most of Quebec's 324 votes, a good part of Ontario's 388. A modest number of votes from the Maritime provinces and a scattering from the west should add up to the necessary...
...candidates, including such dark horses as Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson and Brooke Claxton, Paul Martin, Clarence Decatur Howe, Douglas Abbott and Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power. Because of mechanical differences, Canadian conventions are not so easy to swing or control as U.S. conventions: the delegates vote individually by secret ballot; no candidate may rise to withdraw and publicly switch his support to another...
...ailment had begun acting up again, and his Quito doctors had not been able to make up their minds whether the trouble was rheumatism, arthritis or an allergy ("Perhaps an allergy to politics," cracked Plaza). So this week Plaza flew to New York for treatment-leaving Ecuador's ballot counters fussing for the fifth week...