Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, member of the Council's screening committee, announced that the following 20 students are expected to appear on the ballot today...
Weld added that all petitions for inclusion on the ballot are due at his room, Leverett Hall, by 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning...
...Student Government "so that there would be no chance of anything being railroaded through." As late as last Friday, just three days before the end of the lengthy vote, the Radcliffe News in a front-page editorial pointed out that"...every student knew, or should have known, (the ballot) required a majority vote of the college--i.e. 461 ballots, not just a majority of the voters--for or against any issue to have it settled...
When the new Student Government officers were confronted with the results of the vote on Monday afternoon, they had a clear course of action before them. They should have declared the vote on the News void and waited for a petition for another ballot before taking any further action. Such a decision would have kept faith with the voters and followed a standard precedent for dealing with such problems...
Compulsory long-range patronage of the News--most hotly debated issue on the ballot--squeezed through with a 318 to 245 winning vote after 17 days of balloting at the Agassiz House polls...