Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been taught that if people are unhappy with a law, they can go to the ballot box and elect representatives who will change it. In the case of busing, this option is nonexistent. Federal judges, appointed for life and unaccountable to the voters, have nullified all efforts of our representatives to carry out the mandate of the people...
DARTMOUTH-PENN--This rates as about a seven, owing to my belief that Dartmouth is good this year. Penn has Jack Wixted, so the game honestly could go either way. A very shaky ballot for the Big Green. Dartmouth 16, Penn...
...know," he says, "every time the SWP [Socialist Workers' Party] holds a convention to nominate a candidate, the Times and maybe a couple of other papers will run a profile of the guy, then maybe he gets on the ballot in six states." Harrington laughs. "Like a goddamn dancing bear." Then, still smiling, but with an undertone of seriousness, "I don't want to be a dancing bear...
...every week I'd check out those All Star ballot results in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and hovering a good 200,000 votes over Bowa was always Dave Concepcion, a .269 hitter with an iron glove. I guess those Reds fans really know how to make their ballots count...
...Secret Ballot. Under a new California law, farm workers at long last are getting a chance to decide by secret ballot which union should represent them. By week's end the U.F.W. had won 24 elections, the Teamsters 14. Which union would win the most remained in doubt-the series of elections will run well into next year-but Chavez appeared to be staging a comeback...