Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This system encourages a variety of strategies, most notably slate politics. Liberals can field a large number of candidates without fatally diluting their strength by grouping under the Cambridge Convention banner and capitalizing on their cross-over vote strength. Since every ballot will eventually count for some candidate, left-leaning voters can vote for someone with little chance of winning, and still protect their interests...
Almost 800 seniors voted Monday to choose the eight Radcliffe and eight Harvard finalists who will appear on the Class Marshal ballot, Victor A. Koivumaki '68, of the Alumni Office, said yesterday...
...secret ballot a constitutional myth? A University of Michigan pre-law student, Susan R. Van Hattum, 21 , has put the issue to a test by refusing a judge's order to identify the candidate for whom she voted in last April's mayoral election in Ann Arbor. Van Hattum was among 20 men and wom en who, unknown to them, lived just outside city limits and should not have voted at all. Any one of those 20 votes could have proved decisive, since Democrat James Wheeler defeated Republican Louis Belcher by a margin...
...referendum question on the ballot passes, Boston voters would elect all school committee members. Under the present at-large system, all the seats are chosen at large and four city council members by district...
...build a coalition on the national level, the conservatives would have to learn to compromise on issues-something that has always been difficult for them. Otherwise, the New Right would soon have the faded look of the old right-and just about as much appeal at the ballot...