Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adoption tomorrow will be a series of changes already suggested by Council members. These include sealed ballot boxes and voting lists...
...precautionary measures which will be voted on today are assurances that no student shall count a ballot on which her name is listed as a candidate and that at least three or four impartial counters should tally votes...
...Hall. Inside, Deputy City Clerk Ben Rosengard grasped the octagonal walnut box, spun it several times, then carefully pulled out a card. His announcement was just what the boys had expected: the magic box gave Boss Hague's foolproof Democratic machine the top place on the city-election ballot, as it had every time but once for 36 years...
Unable to find a candidate to his liking in the London County Council elections last week, one voter wrote his own into the ballot: "Good Old Charlie...
...passage of the revised Uniform Charter Act in 1938. That law gave reform-minded cities in the state a choice among five types of municipal government-the different charters were termed "plans." Plan E was one that provided for city council election by proportional representation; the voter marks his ballot by numbering candidates in his order of preference. Thus any bill aimed at that provision would cripple the plan and make it an unnecessary addition to the Charter Act, since plan D carries the same provisions, but without the proportional representation clause...