Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he is doubtless an honest fellow, it is not hard to imagine O'Donnell stuffing ballot boxes in Queens or Staten Island. He is an overweight white-faced Irishman, and he is so rosy about the prospects of his candidate that in conversations he assumes a fatherly manner, releasing bits of information between pitches of the World Series game on television. In any other year, you would take O'Donnell for a Democrat...
...SOCIALIST WORKERS Party is trying again this year Two years ago its Boston mayoral candidate, John Powers, got 1700 votes. With a presidential ticket on the ballot in 25 states, and candidates here for the U.S. Senate and two Congressional seats, the SWP hopes to pick up "quite a few votes." Powers, now the Eighth District Congressional candidate, said last week...
Some Republicans last week seemed determined to equate the Watergate affair with a tradition of political dirty tricks almost as old as the ballot box itself. Indeed, some nasty pranks have become depressingly commonplace over the years-the stealing of candidates' stationery to issue scurrilous letters or phony press releases, the use of embarrassing out-of-context photos...
...Boggs is indeed dead, the state's party leaders may not have sufficient time to put another name on the ballot before the Nov. 7 election. Under constitutional law, the Governor of Louisiana cannot make an interim appointment to fill the Boggs vacancy. Thus, should the Democrats fail to name a substitute, a special election would be held later. Boggs' wife Corinne ("Lindy") Morrison Claiborne, a politically astute and experienced campaigner, is one of several who might be in the running for the job. At week's end the search for Boggs and his companions was continuing...
Voters can have absentee ballots notarized and obtain ballot application forms on the third floor of Holyoke Center...