Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bryant was nominated by the Massachusetts Republican State Convention as a candidate for state treasurer in the 1974 election. Her name did not appear on the ballot because she failed to get enough signatures on her nominating petition...
...Saxon, the candidate of the liberals and moderates, and Robben Fleming, president of the University of Michigan, who was backed by the conservatives. After several trips to California, Fleming withdrew from the running and the regents, with less than a solid vote of confidence, picked Saxon. On the final ballot 13 regents voted for Saxon, four abstained and six were absent. Saxon was chosen, says the regents' chairman William French Smith, because, among other reasons, he knew how the system works: "You can't take too many risks when putting someone in charge of a billion-dollar-plus...
That's because no independent group of Harvard University alumni petitioned this year to place its own candidate on the ballots that the AHA mails out to all degree holders this month. Since there was no petition, the ballot will include only those ten names that the AHA selected in January--all men and most of them corporate executives...
Peter D. Schultz '52, general director of the AHA, said yesterday that there were also no petitions to add candidates to the ballot for directors...
...Coop amendment ballot which members have recently received should be understood for what it is: a blatant attempt on the part of certain Law and Business School professors, incumbent Coop officers, to perpetuate their tenure. Not content with making the nominating procedure for non-student directors so arduous that of the several submitted petitions only one has ever been accepted, they now proceed to the ultimate solution: abandoning free elections altogether. Nothing could be more contrary to the spirit of cooperative enterprise than to consign the representation of 35,000 non-student members to a self-perpetuating group...