Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With several members abstaining from the second ballot and after discussion centering about the date and makeup of the line, the earlier decision was reversed...
Today the forces of good government are driving for revision of the City's charter and a change to a city manager form of government. in Massachusetts, any city but Boston has the option of choosing "plan E" after Petitions have put it on the ballot. Headed by the League of Women Voters, civic groups across the Charles are trying to push through the legislature a bill that would give Boston the same right. In spite of a defeat last year in the legislature, the President of the League holds high hopes for her bill this year. She points...
...methods for making Communists more effective were the object, the recent proposal of Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach could hardly find a peer. When he told the House Labor Committee that the Communist Party should be banned from the ballot and, generally speaking, outlawed, the Secretary showed a surprising amount of naivete on the problem with which he is concerned...
...attempt to impose unnatural bonds upon normal political activity in Council elections would deny the ideal of fullest possible participation. Cliques and bloes which thrive on low vote turnouts could more readily victimize the Councils. The use of the preferential ballot has been beneficial in preventing minority-backed candidates from finishing first. The present election procedure is by no means perfect in this respect, but it does mark departure from the antiquated idea that all political division is an evil...
Nominations for positions on the ballot must be submitted to the chairman by March 17, Holton stated. For a nomination to be accepted, a candidate must file a petition signed by ten other students. Twelve now members will be elected to the Council...