Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last November, in the strangest congressional election of the year, Clem Miller again got a majority of the votes-four weeks after he had been killed in the crash of a twin-engined plane on Chaparral Mountain near Eureka. California law prohibits any change in the ballot within 40 days of an election, so the Democrats were unable to replace Miller. They kept on campaigning, argued that by electing Miller posthumously and forcing a later special election, the voters could keep the Republican candidate from winning by default. "The people are entitled to an election with a choice of candidates...
...group has already submitted five bills to the General Court. They include bills which would: create a commission to study the economic effects of disarmament on Massachusetts; create a radiation protection commission; provide state subsidies for election campaigns; allow a representative of any candidate whose name appears on the ballot to participate in the vote-count...
...Danger of Delusion. Rocky spoke of what "every American'' must do to help shape "the destiny of our American society." Said he: "It is the duty of every citizen not only to cast his ballot, but to cast it as wisely as he can-and this is not always easy. There is a danger that the voter may mistake words for substance, panaceas for basic solutions, and be deluded by slogans and labels such as conservative, liberal and progressive. [They] are not mutually exclusive concepts...
...personal campaign materials may be displayed and no personal campaigning may be conducted in the vicinity of a ballot box at the time of balloting...
...Council also agreed unanimously to several rules concerning the election of class marshals. A ban on campaign materials and personal campaigning near the ballot box on election day, a proposal to hold elections on lunch and dinner of the same day at each House, and a suggestion that no candidate should be involved with the administration of the election were all adopted...