Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Photocopies of duplicate registration cards made out to a single voter showed how a good pro-government man could make not just one but two trips to the ballot box. Opposition voters could be dealt with in several ways. The manual suggested "dividing the opposition by buying off their leaders," and "arresting elements considered as pro-Communist." Then again, one could always "blackmail a person with a scar"-meaning a person with an unsavory background as a smuggler, say, or a habitue of brothels...
...Supreme Court action put Ky on the ballot whether he intended to run or not. But at week's end, Ky announced that he would defer a final decision. Nevertheless, it was understood that he intended to call for a three-month postponement of the election. He was also expected to propose that both he and Thieu resign, and that Nguyen Van Huyen, president of the Senate, become Acting President in order to organize a new election. For the moment, only one thing seemed certain: despite all the maneuvering to restore the appearance of a real race, the election...
They also released government documents which, according to Minh's supporters, showed how the election was being rigged. The main item was a 17-page memo to province chiefs; among other things, it told how to fix ballot cards to enable Thieu partisans to vote twice and how to discourage Thieu opponents by finding "a scar"-Vietnamese parlance for a past crime or anything else that might make a man vulnerable to blackmail...
...Lindsay's worst problems would be the eight mandatory primary states where state officials place the names of all likely candidates on the ballot. Thus he could not pick only hospitable states to enter, unless he signed affidavits disavowing his candidacy. Aside from Wisconsin and possibly Oregon, the state where Lindsay might run best would be California, but its primary occurs so late, June 6, that he could be badly scarred before he even got there. To make a long primary drive, Lindsay would also have to raise a Rockefeller's share of campaign funds-a more difficult...
...CAMPAIGN. "The minimum standards for a free and fair election are these: no confiscation of newspapers, no arrests of people who campaign for me or Vice President Ky in the countryside, no switching of ballot boxes when they are collected and transported to the vote-counting center...