Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, the League of Women Voters that ten years ago first proposed reducing the bloated house to 160 members. Vigorous lobbying by the league got the proposal on the ballot in a 1974 referendum. It passed by a huge margin...
...bishops also came close to endorsing a much-disputed liturgical change advocated by A Call to Action: letting worshipers receive the Communion wafer in the hand instead of on the tongue if they prefer. If enough additional bishops endorse the change in a mail ballot, the proposal will go to the Vatican for final approval. Many conservatives are deeply upset about the new practice, which they consider irreverent. John Cardinal Carberry of St. Louis even warned that wafers might be taken and used in satanic masses...
Smith said that because Cambridge's system of proportional representation makes it possible for someone to be elected with a minority of the vote, by allowing votes to list candidates on the ballot in order of preference, the convention committee hopes that five of its nominees will be elected in November...
...People's Party won 155 out of 200 seats in the National Assembly. The opposition Pakistan National Alliance, a coalition of nine parties, won only 36 seats. They charged that Bhutto's party henchmen had "massively and immorally rigged" the election by terrorizing polling places and stuffing ballot boxes...
...candidates wrote policy statements for the IRC ballot longer than 75 words, Michael E. Kahaiyan '79 said in a letter distributed last week to some IRC members. IRC bylaws state that all candidates may submit a policy statement of 75 words or less to appear in the ballots, which are mailed to all IRC members...