Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defying every known rule for winning elections, he made no speeches, attended no rallies, appeared on no radio or TV programs, had no posters printed, placed no ads, shook no hands, kissed no babies. All he did. in fact, was pay his $100 qualifying fee to get on the ballot. Then he sat back and waited for election day. With four opponents-two of them veteran politicians-running for the post (the incumbent is retiring), it looked as if "fun" was all that Johnson was going...
...last week's primary, "Bob Johnson," as he was listed on the ballot, won in a walk with 119,000 votes, trouncing the runner-up, Democratic State Chairman James M. Milligan Jr., by 22,000. Astonished but happy. Winner Johnson announced that he would bow to the will of the people and serve as Florida's only male representative on the 108-member Democratic National Committee (one man and one woman from each state, district and territory...
Dazed Florida politicians decided on two possible explanations for the upset: 1) the five contenders were listed on the ballot in alphabetical order, with Johnson first, and a lot of voters just settled for the top name; 2) many a voter confused "Bob Johnson" with a popular Tampa city judge of the same name...
...Belgian government last week regretfully announced that it could not give the final results of the Congo's nationwide elections. Among the reasons: ¶In the Sankuru River, a motor launch carrying ballot boxes downstream struck a sandbar and sank. Boxes containing 10,-ooo ballots disappeared in a swirling mass of crocodiles...
...Kindu and the province of Kasai, candidates who believed that they had been defeated nullified the results by setting fire to polling stations and ballot boxes...