Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local hospital board. He joined civic groups, became a deacon of the Plains Baptist Church and finally wandered onto the political stump. His first whiff of electioneering was Georgia politics at its gamiest. During his election for state senator, the newcomer found some irregularities in one of the ballot boxes; an investigation and recount showed that Carter had been beaten by voters who were dead, jailed or never at the polls on Election Day. The election was reversed in his favor...
...Congressman William Green, a 33-year-old liberal, and Hardy Williams, a black lawyer and State Representative. His victory was overwhelming, too. Rizzo received 176.621 votes to 127.902 for Green and 45,026 for Williams. Five other candidates, three of whom withdrew too late to be removed from the ballot, together received about 11,000 votes...
...charge the judge made it perfectly clear about motive and intent. Motive, he explained, is what the defendants would like to do; intent is whether they really intended to do it. And the government did not prove intent." The stunningly swift verdict came after a single written ballot on each charge...
Davis's name was-placed in nomination by an independent group which circulated petitions to get her name on the ballot. There is a provision for such petition candidates in the alumni association constitution...
...which was formed last June during the tenth reunion of the Class of 1960, last fall nominated Terry F. Lenzner '61 as an Overseer. In order to have his name placed on the ballot, which is mailed out to all Harvard alumni, the CCA had to produce petitions signed by alumni...