Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expected slip back into office amidst the general clamor for the status quo. The Wednesday newspapers blamed the loss on his affiliation with a reform group, the Citizens for Boston Schools. The citizens backed four candidates besides Gartland, all of whom lost after managing to get on the final ballot. The introduction of this reform slate crystallized the racial problem as a political issue...
...most obvious asset is the 92,579 votes she carried away last week. She won 19,523 more votes than the front-running city council candidate on the same ballot. Sixty-four percent of the voters chose Mrs. Hicks, while the school committee runner-up tallied less than 50 per cent. These figures indicate that she received large number of bullet votes: ballets with only her named checked among the School Committee candidates...
...Election Commission will now validate the unofficial count, and then eliminate all candidates who polled less than 500 "number one" votes. These in turn will be redistributed to candidates in the number two osition on each ballot...
...came Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd, a strapping, handsome ex-missionary. To the shock of his own United Party, he began to speak softly to the Africans. He managed to ram through a bill giving Southern Rhodesian blacks their first tiny voice in the territory's government-a separate ballot under which they could elect five of the 35 members of parliament. It was not much, but to the settlers it seemed a step toward their worst fear: that their servants would some day rule...
What opponents of PR would like is a regular plurality system. They have proposed that primaries be held, with the top 18 candidates (or 12 for the school board) held over for the November general election ballot. Half of these would then be elected...