Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indirect Victim. Under this arrangement, the ballot of a voter in a little piney-woods county was a lot weightier than the ballot of a voter in a large city...
...scored a surprise victory in national elections, Argentina has been a land living under military rule, preserving only the flimsiest façade of democracy. Arturo Frondizi, the deposed constitutional President who gave Peron's still-faithful descamisados (shirtless ones) a place on the ballot, still waits on his prison island in the Rio de la Plata. In the Buenos Aires Presidential Palace sits a puppet President, José Maria Guido, a minor politician who must wait, too-wait for the military men, who fear Peron, to decide what to do. Last week the generals made up their minds...
...bill which passed the General Court and was signed into law by Lt. Gov. Edward A. McLaughlin (Gov. Volpe was on vacation) permits a petition to adopt Plan "F"'s partisan system to be placed on the ballot in state as well as in municipal elections...
Since the move to throw out the PR system of Plan "E" in Cambridge elections was defeated last November, this issue cannot come before the voters again for two years. But the question can be placed on the ballot in another form, and thus many groups which campaigned for the abolition of Plan "E" will try to make Plan "F" an issue in this fall's State election...
...difficulty in getting on the ballot is not due only to number of signatures. Petitions for independent candidates are issued simultaneously with those for the party primaries. And all must be completed by the same deadline. This presents obvious problems for the independent candidate who does not have party machinery to rely on and who most likely has to fight against the existing machinery...