Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect, New York held 39 separate elections yesterday, one in each congressional districts. New York's stringent and complex proceedures for getting delegates on the ballot made it impossible for the candidates to field slates in every district. Udall had slates in 37 and Jackson in 35, while challenges by the Jackson forces to petitions filed for Carter delegates left Carter with slates in only 27 districts...
...Ward Club, children in two and knitting ready. Campaign flyers scattered over tables, chairs and the floor advertise candidates for U.S. Congress, Cleveland City Council, District Judge and "McFaul for Sheriff." Forman is circulating petitions to assure that Celebrezze has more than enough names to put him on the ballot. City Councilman Michael L. Climaco, another candidate for Congress, is pumping hands and introducing himself as "the picture on that card you're holding." Although the room has the ambience more of an after-church coffee klatch than a political meeting, those present take their politics seriously. The gap between...
Under Labor Party procedures, candidates for Wilson's post must announce by the beginning of this week. The first candidate who receives a majority of votes (159) from the Labor M.P.s wins. If no winner emerges on the first ballot, later this week, weaker candidates will be eliminated and the voting will go into a second and possibly third round...
...Raytheon Company, in which Harvard owns 90,000 shares, has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to allow it to omit the disclosure resolution from its proxy ballot, although it manufactures guidance systems for missiles that are sold to Saudi Arabia...
...Hampshire and Florida that would knock Ford out of the race-had failed. Rather than quit, however, Reagan changed his strategy. Now his wishful thinking has him picking up enough delegates in primaries in the South, Southwest and West to keep Ford from getting the nomination on the first ballot. On subsequent ballots, Reagan envisions attracting enough uncommitted delegates to win the nomination for himself...