Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each of the more than 25 states that hold primaries will support candidates in proportion to how well each does in the primary race. Unless a candidate wins big in most of the primaries, it will be tough for him to get enough delegates to win on the first ballot of the national convention. Says a top aide to Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss: "I can see the convention going to the seventh or eighth ballot, with Scoop Jackson and George Wallace holding the largest blocs of delegates, but neither able to make it over the top, and neither...
...Stanley Cloud. Kennedy told Cloud: "I'm not running for President, and I will not accept the nomination at a deadlocked convention. I don't think it will be deadlocked. There'll be a sifting out of the various candidates, and someone will win a first-ballot victory." Are any of the announced candidates unacceptable to him? "Just Wallace...
...Italy, where the Communists have been the nation's second largest political organization (though always remaining in opposition), party leaders are thinking seriously of seeking a share of power through the ballot box. In Greece, the Communists gained only 9% of the vote in last November's elections, but they too are disciplined and may do better next time...
...Faculty will vote on next month--and probably approve--a slight change in the procedures for nomination to the Faculty Council this year. The change is a minor one, a reduction of the number of nominations a candidate needs to appear on the ballot for council membership to five. Last year the quota was five for non-tenured faculty and ten for tenured: the year before it was ten for non-tenured and 20 for tenured...
When the nomination quota is high, a candidate needs substantial organized (that is, caucus-related) support to appear on the council ballot; with only five nominations needed, a candidate doesn't need caucus backing...