Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble exploded shortly after the third ballot of the presidential nomination. On that ballot Senator Charles Percy (R-III.), with every liberal delegate uniting behind him, reached his high water mark of 97 votes--2 short of the majority required for the nomination...
Nixon, compromise candidate of the conservatives, had 89 votes on that ballot. But in the caucus following the roll-call, it was understood that the last bloc of conservative delegates holding out for Governor Ronald Reagan had shifted to Nixon, which was expected to give him the nomination...
...Third, with their studies complete, they undertake "basic political action." Alperovitz is still uncertain of the exact form action should take, but he has suggested pressing Congressmen to hold open hearings on the war in the community or petitioning to place a statement opposing the war on the ballot in local elections...
...dollar to a presidential campaign fund by checking a box on their income tax form. The money would be divided between the national committees of the major parties. A third party could share the funds if it polled more than five million votes in the previous presidential ballot...
...though, it takes brave men to run for office in Highland or Delta hamlets where every peasant knows that the Viet Cong are lurking just beyond the nearest paddy. The fact that the Vietnamese turn out so strongly in the face of terror-and sometimes end up marking their ballot with their own blood-shows that the candidates' courage does not go unappreciated...