Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sergeant Michael Troiano of the Army Air Forces was allowed to cast his vote at home after he had explained to a Staten Island judge that he was a prisoner of war in Bulgaria when his soldiers' ballot was sent...
...imponderables that make poll-taking risky work in 1944. Some of them: 1) the soldier vote; 2) migrating war workers; 3) the difficulty of poll-taking under gas rationing; 4) the "silent vote." The one new development in the FORTUNE poll was that a partial check, using a secret ballot instead of oral answers, substantially increased Dewey's vote. At week's end pollsters were busily rechecking and their final counts were yet to come. Whether the polls were right or wrong might not be known until...
...announced that they would cast their votes for Harry Byrd, fourth was ready to follow suit. And it was too late, apparently, to do anything much about it. While there was yet time (before September 7), New Dealers had not put a pro-Roosevelt list of electors on the ballot. Mindful of the Texas fracas, Governor Thomas L. Bailey had assured Mississippi that all nine electors promised to support the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. But last week, long after the state's Sept. 7 deadline, the four anti-Roosevelt electors apparently decided that the racial plank of the Democratic platform...
...York figures were one example of how decisive the serviceman's vote might be in a close race. Albany received some 590,000 serviceman ballot applications. (In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt's plurality in New York was 224,440; Tom Dewey lost his 1938 try at the governorship by less than...
Died. Alfred Peckham Perry, 89, insurance man who voted the straight Republican ticket in 15 out of 16 Presidential elections (exception: a ballot for Alfred Emanuel Smith and repeal in 1928); in Manhattan...