Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scramble for power begins next week when the 292-member House Democratic caucus meets to choose by secret ballot a new Speaker and majority leader. The current majority leader, Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, 63, a big, tough-minded Boston liberal who is committed to Carter, is unopposed in his bid to succeed retiring Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma. By contrast, four candidates are in the race for the majority leader's position that O'Neill will be vacating...
Question 5 on the Massachusetts ballot was a proposed law that would have banned the private ownership of handguns. The main committee opposing it was Taxpayers Against Question 5, located at 11 Main Street in Southboro. The committee reported to the campaign finance office a total expenditure of roughly $105,000, including contributions from many local gun clubs and hunting associations, and a gift of $30,000 from the National Rifle Association in Washington, D.C. But it also reported receiving, in six installments, a total of $71,000 from a group called the Gun Owners Action League. Strangely enough...
...wake of the 1972 campaign and the Watergate hearings. The new Massachusetts laws banned corporate contributions to candidates, and limited all individual contributions--to candidates and referendum committees--to $1000 each. It clearly did not ban or even limit business contributions to political committees for or against ballot questions that would affect their business. The effect of this has been all too dramatic. Most of the contributors to committees in favor of the bottle bill, for example, were individuals who, even if they could afford to contribute more than $1000, were prohibited from doing so. To their opponents, however, contributions...
...year later he founded the Parti Québécois. Lévesque's moderate approach to separatism through the ballot box managed to survive Canadian revulsion during the October Crisis of 1970, when separatist terrorists kidnaped British Trade Commissioner James Cross and murdered the province's Labor Minister, Pierre Laporte...
...Gerald Ford and dismissed late in the campaign. In 23 states, including all the big ten except Florida and Massachusetts, the winner captured 52% of the vote or less. Redistribution of a mere 8,000 votes would have swung the election to Ford; a juggling of some 200,000 ballots, on the other hand, would have given Carter a landslide of 400 or more electoral votes. Despite his dismally poor showing (.8% of the 80 million votes cast), Eugene McCarthy managed to shift at least three states to the President-Maine, Iowa and Oregon; had he been on the ballot...