Word: ballots
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...Professor Thomas Sheehan of Chicago's Loyola University, who claimed that the total number of votes cast in the election had been vastly inflated, "with at least the knowledge of the United States Government." Sheehan's conclusions were based on calculations of the number of available ballot boxes, the hours polling booths remained open and the estimated time it would take each voter to cast a ballot. Sheehan suggested that the official tally of 1,485,185 votes could be more than double the number actually cast. He did not, however, challenge the election's outcome...
...candidates to succeed Republican Senator S.I. Hayakawa, 75, who is not seeking reelection. When voters go to the polls next Tuesday to choose party nominees for both the Senate and the Governor's mansion, as many as 13 names will be on the G.O.P. primary ballot as candidates for the Senate, and seven of them, including Wilson, are running seriously...
Even Gov. Edward J. King, who at one point threatened to ignore the convention, who pursued it only when it appeared that his absence might threaten his spot on September's ballot, and who criticized the whole affair as divisive and unrepresentative of the party, took a brief turn on the floor to greet what few supporters were there. His one moment in the spotlight, in fact, was a press conference, which he spent complaining about the convention officials who would not allow him to make a speech...
Perhaps. But it was a fragile democracy of byzantine complexity that put Magaña in the Presidential Palace. The selection of a provisional head of state capped a month of cutthroat political maneuvering that began with the March 28 election for a constituent assembly. That ballot had given 40% of the popular vote to the Christian Democratic Party, led by outgoing junta President José Napoléon Duarte and supported by the U.S. because of its progressive land and banking reforms. But a right-wing coalition headed by ARENA and the P.C.N. won control...
...mostly female supporters who packed the assembly gallery each day to shout their support and hoot down the opposition. Before Magaña's selection, ARENA Leader Mario Redaelli boasted that he had told the U.S. embassy's political counsellor: "Maybe we should set up special ballot boxes for [U.S.] Senators and Congressmen to come down and vote directly...