Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eliot House Committee rescheduled elections for student assembly representatives Wednesday after students conducting the election wrote an unofficial candidate's name onto the ballot...
Although the Mongol party has the support of Moses, it will win no seats in the assembly because it has no representatives on the ballot and no known membership...
...another case of nonexistent candidates, Ramon Diaz posted his platform proposal on the board in the union. Or so the organizers of the election thought. After his name was put on the ballot, Carl Rosen '79, who is in charge of freshman elections, discovered that no such student exists. The phone number given for the fictitious Diaz was that of Hurlbut proctor Raymond Mendez...
...best show in town came primary day, when a largely-unheralded question on the ballot burst into national attention and sent liberals scurrying for their fiscal integrity cliches. Proposition 13, the tax revolt, the great middle class reaction. And there on the tube was old Go-with-the-flow Jerry Brown himself doing the best broken field running and backtracking since Gale Sayers hung up the cleats. Politicians by the truckload began making the pilgrimage to the shrine of Sir Howard Jarvis, slayer of the mighty dragon of Big Government...
...opponent in the election is Francis W. Hatch, 53, a middle-of-the-road Republican whose nomination spared Bay State voters one unusual difficulty. He defeated Edward F. King, founder of an organization that wants to put a cap on state spending. If Hatch had lost, the November ballot would have featured Edward King vs. Edward King...