Word: balloting
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Since 1789, Americans have been electing their Presidents by a Constitutional procedure designed to help preserve the rights of the individual states, a sensitive political issue at the time. As everybody who has taken Civics I should know, when the voters mark their ballots, they are really endorsing a slate of electors picked by the candidate's party. The electors of the winning party are authorized to cast all of their state's votes (a total equal to the number of its Congressmen and Senators) for their candidate. But they are not legally bound...
...plan was based at the Quad. Although River House upperclassmen had no opportunity to present their opinions on the plan, they were far less vocal than Quad residents and the majority of River House CHUL representatives apparently voted to abolish four-class Houses when CHUL voted by secret ballot on the issue. The only House masters to publicly oppose the Fox plan were the Hastings, still in their first year as masters of North House...
McCarthy said his '76 presidential bid "laid the groundwork for challenges to the Federal Election Act," which discriminates against third-party candidates. McCarthy added he does not anticipate major difficulties placing third-party candidates on the presidential ballot...
...Gandhi's campaign for the re-election of her government was running into trouble-heavy trouble. The four-day national ballot is scheduled to begin this Wednesday. Privately, some New Delhi pundits were betting that when the votes are counted next week, they will add up to the first national defeat for Mrs. Gandhi's Congress Party in India's 30 years of independence. Even if the pundits are wrong, the mere fact that a defeat now seems possible marks a dramatic reversal for Mrs. Gandhi-only eight weeks after she had confidently called for elections...
Symbol or not, Clean Gene ran a real campaign last fall. He got on the ballot in most states and garnered more than a million dissatisfied voters to his cause. For Carter, who would have lost the election but for a 20,000 vote margin in Ohio and Hawaii, he was all too real...