Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Duey and Lucero were tied on the first ballot, so club members voted again and elected Duey. Lucero was then made vice president by unanimous consent...
...Public Relations Whiz Sanford Weiner, 49, the skilled promoter who helped legalize gambling in Atlantic City, N.J., a dozen hotel owners and businessmen in decaying Miami Beach are launching a drive to collect the signatures of 255,653 voters-enough to put legalized gambling casinos on a statewide ballot in November. Says Leon Manne, president of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce: "Gambling will turn the economy around faster than anything. It is the quickest solution...
Carazo said that the results confirmed an "enormous desire for change" in the mountainous, West Virginia-size republic. Indeed, the election proved that Costa Ricans not only wanted a change but were assured of getting it at the ballot box-something voters in other Latin American countries cannot always count...
...January 1, without five members in their coalition, they should have been ready and astute enough to understand that there was a whole lot at stake," Vellucci says. "They blew it; they should have elected me on the first ballot," he adds...
...past years, the council is divided into liberal and conservative coalitions, with acting-mayor Alfred E. Vellucci voting for himself on every ballot...