Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee will meet Tuesday in the Student Council room to draw up the nominating ballot. Although the dates for the elections have not definitely been set, they will take place some time in December, to fill the six existing vacancies in the Council...
Portugal, which has not had a real election for 20 years, held another mock ballot this week. Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's ticket won a unanimous victory. The opposition, protesting that registration lists were rigged, abstained from voting...
...crazy-quilt politics of a dozen different parties, had dropped into the New York City political scene last week, he might have felt perfectly at home. An important mayoralty campaign was getting under way with seven candidates in the field and ten bewildered and bewildering parties on the ballot...
...President Manuel Avila Camacho to enforce it. In his annual message to Congress he had made an equivocal promise to implement the people's will. But the President would have to introduce new electoral procedure, clearly tell the P.R.M. to keep its hands off the ballot boxes, and perhaps even insure a fair count by strict, nonpartisan supervision before his promise became fact...
...biggest electoral upset in British history. When Britain's sealed ballot boxes were broken open for the count last week, it was found that the Labor Party, under the leadership of Clement R. Attlee, had defeated the Conservative Party, haloed by the prosecution to victory of a desperate war. Labor's astonishing majority over Winston Churchill's Conservatives: 195 seats...