Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early in the 20th century, the now defunct Progressive Party began posing questions to the voters in referendums as a means of going directly to the people over the heads of elected politicians. Behind the current resurgence of balloting on issues is a post-Watergate distrust of elected officials and a growing impatience with state legislatures, which the constituents often feel are lead-footed and overly cautious. Says Robert Hughes, a G.O.P. chairman in the Cleveland area: "People are saying, 'By God, the power is vested in the people, and if the elected officials won't respond...
School Committee member Glenn S. Koocher '71, a convention endorsee, is in fifth place in the continuing ballot count with 2638 number ones, immediately followed by the convention-endorsed Charles R. Pierce, a former incumbent, and convention-endorsed School Committee member Sara Mae Berman...
...will feed who what?" Cambridge candidates and campaign workers wondered yesterday as ballot counters tallied the results in the basement of the Longfellow School...
Sullivan also led a fight two years ago to uncover ballot fraud in Cambridge elections. In addition, Sullivan wants to end patronage and promote more efficient and professional city government...
Delegates from the 410 O.C.A. parishes in the U.S., Canada and Mexico nominate a new Metropolitan. If no one candidate receives a two-thirds majority on the first ballot, a second vote is held to propose two contenders; the church's rune ruling bishops then choose one of them to be the primate. In 1965 a U.S.-born candidate got the most votes, but failed to gain the necessary two-thirds majority, and the predominantly elderly, Russian-born bishops turned instead to runner-up Ireney, a bishop in New England. In choosing a successor to Ireney, now 85 and ailing...