Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Romney's behalf have been made with Republican leaders in New Hampshire, New York, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Mississippi. The Governor's aides have already made a straw count of convention delegates; they figure that they can now count on some 500 first-ballot votes, while Nixon probably controls around 550 (required for the nomination: 667). They have solicited New York Senator Jacob Javits to suggest a speechwriter. They have borrowed New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's research files from his 1964 attempt to get the nomination...
...nominate, the Social Democrats and Free Democrats began negotiating to form a coalition of their own to end the Christian Democrats' 17 years of uninterrupted rule. Desperate for a solution, Erhard's party decided to throw the choice open to a vote by its Bundestag members. On the third ballot, with the decisive backing of Strauss's Bavarian Christian Social Union, the decision went to the man who seemed best fitted to pull the divided party?and the country?together...
...years. It has changed a little bit--maybe more--but it keeps on winning. The success of the Machine was predicated on a low voter turnout. That meant not only discouraging Negroes from voting, but also many poor whites. There have never been any outright bars to the ballot in Virginia, but intricate laws concerning residence requirements and an ingeniously devised web of poll taxes accomplished the same objective in a more sutble way. The electorate was kept within manageably limits. For instance, prior to 1945, only about, 12 per cent of all eligible Virginians voted in gubernatorial election...
...stake were 23 seats in the 66-member federal Senate, all 409 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, plus all 22 state legislatures, local councils and municipal mayorships. Under Brazil's new government-decreed two-party system, voters could either cast their ballot for the government's ARENA candidate or for the opposition M.D.B.-thus theoretically voting for or against President Humberto Castello Branco's brand of "revolution." Such is Brazilian politics today that a vote for a government candidate was not always a vote for the government. Some ARENA candidates openly proclaimed-their opposition to Castello...
...were largely dominated by the senior U.S. prelates and automatically chaired by New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman. In setting up a formal hierarchical synod under the title of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the prelates also made provisions for electing its officers. Chosen on the third ballot as first president of the conference was the Most Rev. John Francis Dearden, 59, the progressive Archbishop of Detroit...