Word: balloting
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...addition, current regulations direct the House Committees to choose 11 people at random to form a selection board, which decides whether to pick candidates by ballot, lot, or an "alternative procedure." Then, CRR representatives are selected from the Houses' candidates by lot. Similar procedures apply to the freshman class and GSAS. If such a selection procedure provides us with a fairminded, competent, interested representatives, we will have only Lady Luck to thank. The reform proposals make no change in this procedure...
Vellucci added that he plans to vote for himself on every ballot, hoping that the liberals will finally make him their choice, as they did two years...
...Vellucci voted "present" on every ballot until finally former City Councilors Barbara Ackerman and David Clem joined forces with Vellucci and City Councilor Saundra Graham to end the dealock, 21 ballots later...
...after it scuttled Mrs. Gandhi and renounced her dictatorial ways. But as the February elections approach in four states traditionally ruled by Congress, the party is in disarray. Pro-and anti-Indira factions are fighting over the right to use Congress's cow-and-calf emblem on the ballot-a crucial issue in a nation with 64% illiteracy. Now, in a plague-on-both-your-houses mood, a significant number of Congress Party regulars may cast their votes for Janata's man-with-a-plow emblem-a symbol for millions of the Desai government's restoration...
Thomas Danehy, an Independent councilor, has received his own vote and that of long-time Cambridge pol Walter J. Sullivan on each ballot. Kevin P. Crane, another Independent, has voted "present" on almost all the ballots, while Lawrence Frisoli, scion of a powerful local family, seems to be voting at random. And the inimitable Vellucci keeps voting for himself...