Word: ballots
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...basis of the total vote, a quota needed for election is determined (it is one tenth of the total plus one). Some candidates can meet the quota from their "number one" votes. They are declared elected and any ballots they have in surplus of the quota are re-distributed to those who are listed second on the ballot (those who have received the "number two votes"). At the same time, those with the least number of "number one votes" are declared defeated and their ballots are given to those second on the list. This process of elimination and redistribution continues...
...worry for the CCA is the primary. CCA partisans may be less likely to turn out for these seemingly insignificant preliminary local elections than supporters of the independents. If that turned out to be true, some of the CCA candidates might have a hard time making it on the ballot in November...
...operates this way: a voter can vote for as many candidates as he pleases. He lists the candidates in order of preference (1. 2. 3...etc.). All the ballots are first given to the candidate who has the "number one vote." On the basis of total turnout, a quota (1/10 of the vote plus one) needed for election is determined. If any of the candidates has enough number one votes" to meet the quota (two or three men usually do), they are declared elected. Then any of their votes in excess of the quota are distributed to the person...
Voters in the decadent bourgeois states might not consider that much of a choice, but the privilege of crossing out two names on a twelve-man ballot held obvious appeal for the average East German. Perhaps too obvious, decided Ulbricht at the last minute. Fearing that the voters might go wild with their pencils and cross out some party stalwarts, he welshed on the deal. The only patriotic way to vote, East Germans were told, was not to cross out any names...
...Dixon, 73, Governor of Alabama from 1939 to 1943, who maintained his political influence long after his term in office, in 1948 led the Dixiecrat revolt against Harry Truman, and in 1960, as an unpledged member of the electoral college, rejected John Kennedy's election to cast his ballot for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd; of cancer; in Birmingham...