Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sargent carried his Lieutenant Governor nominee, Donald Dwight, into office on the new no-split ballot instituted this year for the two top spots. Democratic incumbents, however, had little trouble maintaining their traditional hold on the lower state offices of Attorney General, Secretary of State, Treasurer, and State Auditor...
...guarantees that Allende would preserve Chile's cherished democratic traditions. Then last week the runner-up right-wing candidate, former President (1958-1964) Jorge Alessandri, urged his congressional supporters not to oppose Allende. Alessandri's gesture was gracious but hardly affected the outcome. In the traditional secret ballot, the 195 Senators and Deputies present supported Allende over Alessandri by a margin...
...goals, if not the methods, of the FLQ; and the separatist Front d'Aotion Politique was thought to have strong backing in the Montreal city elections. And yet, even as the government felt the threat of increasing secessionist tendencies among Quebec's electorate, the FLQ was tiring of the ballot box as a means of achieving power: the April vote had yielded the PQ only seven out of 108 National Assembly seats, and the temper of the underground group was wearing rather thin...
...recent terrorist manifesto put it, "We have had our fill of promises of jobs and prosperity while we always remain the cowering servants and bootlickers of the big shots." The moderates might agree with the sentiment, but their similarity to the terrorists ends at that point. The ballot box may be discouragingly slow, but at least it is not stained with blood...
Along with this approach Matthews is running on a platform of four main points: the building of a beach at Spy Pond for residents, putting the issue of decreasing the size of the Massachusetts House of Representatives on the ballot, lowering interest rates on bank credit cards and county government reform...