Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DRUNKEN BALLOT, One newspaper headlined. PEOPLE SAW DOUBLE. And, in some cases, triple. With 4,303 registered voters in the little Corsican town of Corte, no fewer than 9,647 ballots were cast in a town council election last week. The total was something of a record, even for Corsica, where ballot boxes are called boites a surprises (surprise boxes), and electoral mischief is an honored tradition. Last week's election was held, for example, because a Nice court, citing "voting irregularities," had ruled the 1967 balloting null and void. And that 1967 election was held because the courts...
Wall Streeters parochially felt that the Administration's encouraging words were calculated to alleviate the stock market's phthisis. While they were not entirely wrong, Nixon was thinking of much more. His political advisers view inflationary recession as the riskiest ballot-box issue of the year and the President is trying to cover his losses-just in case. He has continually said that he foresees no recession. But he sent a delicately balanced budget to Congress and warned that the Democrats had better not take chances by upsetting it. In addition, he started jawboning for easier money...
...first time since balloting began on Jan. 5, four of the five councillors endorsed by the Cambridge Civie Association (CCA) managed to agree on a choice for mayor. On the 11th ballot, the four voted for CCA Councillor Thomas Coates, and on the 12th ballot moved to CCA Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney...
...there had been no petitions, a mailed ballot would not have been necessary, since the slate would have been elected automatically. The extra cost entailed in the ballot will be between $4000 and $5000. "Democracy isn't cheap," Zavelle said...
...their part, the CCA councilllors were unable to agree on a choice for mayor. Each of the two announced CCA candidates for mayor-Councillors Thomas Coates and Thomas H. D. Mahoney-voted for himself. Two other CCA councillors-Barbara Ackermann and Robert P. Moncnieff-voted for Coates on one ballot and Mahoney on the next, while CCA councillor Edward A. Crane '35 voted "present" throughout the balloting...