Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proliferation of propositions on the California ballot, meant to be the ultimate in democratic expression, has been perverted into a financial battle between opposing groups. With the aid of high-powered public relations firms and lavish use of broadcasting, wealth often wins. One illustration is the defeat last June of a controversial proposition that would have restricted industry from polluting the air. Such firms as Bethlehem Steel, General Motors, Gulf Oil, Humble Oil & Refining, Shell Oil, Dow Chemical and Pacific Gas & Electric helped assemble a kitty of $1.4 million. This overwhelmed the $186,510 spent by a committee called...
Students will be conducting a door-to-door campaign this week to urge all undergraduates to apply for an absentee ballot if they have not already done so. The deadline in some states is Oct. 31. Requests should be mailed before the end of the week...
Please bring or mail a ballot to the College Marshall Agassiz first by October 24. Stamped envelopes should be used by Harvard residents and off-campus students Quad residents use University mail-deposit in House office. Vote for three Radcliffe seniors only are eligible to vote...
Steiner finished second with about 40 per cent of the vote. He is proud of his performance: "I was the second highest Democratic vote-getter in the district, even though my name was at the bottom of the ballot...
...Directors, a position-he-quit in 1971 to accept a job as manager of the Coop's Law School branch. Lawyers for the Coop disqualified over 40 of the names for violations of form, leaving Steele 11 short of the 100 signatures needed to place him on the ballot...