Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCarthy said that by working on the Committee on Fair Ballot Access he hopes to insure that independent candidates can more readily appear on state ballots. The Committee is currently bringing suit against restrictive state laws which it considers unconstitutional and is working with state legislatures to frame new laws...
...House Committee last week declared Keane the winner of the election by a margin of one vote, but the House secretary found an absentee ballot in her office the day after the election. The committee ruled the vote official, and this tied the final count between Gaffney and Keane...
...week Banks, 45, enjoyed his most beautiful day yet. He was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame, only the eighth player to be named in his first year of eligibility (five years after retirement). Even Joe DiMaggio did not make it until his third year on the ballot, and Yogi Berra until his second. Grinned "Mr. Cub": "It's the greatest moment of my life...
...Well, in 1968, if John Mitchell hadn't made that deal with Strom Thurmond for the Southern delegates that he took away from Ronnie Reagan, and if Ronnie had held them on the first ballot, I had a very good chance...
Carter's tenacity is extraordinary. Apparently defeated in his first try for the state senate in 1962, he fought to prove ballot stuffing by the boss of Quitman County, Joe Hurst. Governor-elect Carl