Word: balloting
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Some observers feel that the Gaullist campaign may cause a change in traditional voting patterns. French voters, who ballot twice on consecutive Sundays in the elections for the National Assembly,* have generally shifted on the second ballot to give bigger votes to the first-round leaders. Some voters who go Socialist may shift to candidates of such centrist parties as the Radicals or Center Democrats. But Center Democratic Leader Jean Lecanuet wooed the undecided strongly last week in a rally at Rennes by promising that if no clear majority emerged from the election, his party would help keep the Gaullists...
...circular sent to all of the students attending the meeting, the committee said: "1973 and 1974 are important years for the Republican Party on campus. Nearly 8 million collegians have the vote and many of them cast their first ballot last year for Republican candidates...
...terms of the ballot, women will have full memberships in the club at $80 a year dues, starting this Spring. He said that Faculty and administrators will be associate members, paying $50 a year dues...
Surprisingly, Brown edged into the runoff, helped considerably by an effective TV campaign and the foresight to be born with a surname that placed high on the ballot. But Bodron polled 33,000 votes, 40 per cent of the total, while Brown had only 16,000. The wide margin meant money for the runoff would be scarce...
...mock ballot for presidential candidates closed last evening at 6 p.m., The vote was unexpectedly large and gives a clear idea of the opinion of Harvard students. The overwhelming victory for McKinley was in a measure expected, and the chief surprise was that Palmer should have secured so much larger a vote than Bryan. It is also interesting to observe that Massachusetts cast more than half of the total number of votes, and that Bryan secured as large a proportion of votes in this state as in any other. The vote of the day was 462, a slight falling...