Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...union's nine-member executive board declares one ballot favoring Crockett invalid, but calls for another election to determine the presidency. Two months later, Crockett wins by a wide margin, because, one source explains, "Mullen didn't let the people know the spoiled ballot wasn't her fault, that it wasn't trickery. She just sat around, and Charlie won going away...
More important, liberals who feel the nation has abandoned them should look at the history of the election itself and its candidates before they leave the country. The 1980 presidential election cannot truly be called a defeat for liberalism because no liberal was on the ballot as a major candidate. Neither Carter nor Anderson presented economic or foreign policies that were fundamentally different from the Republican tradition of fiscal conservatism and increased defense spending...
...cars and helicopters, guarded polling places and patrolled the streets. Nonetheless, the gunfire echoed through the tough slums of Kingston all day long. The Kingston Public Hospital, located in the center of the trouble, took in a dozen casualties. One young man, who had allegedly tried to steal a ballot box, had nearly been decapitated by a machete. The casualty toll just for the ten-hour polling period: three killed and 20 wounded...
With 50 per cent of the vote tabulated, the proposition (Question 2 on the ballot) was winning with 50 per cent or about 700,000 votes. Preliminary returns in Cambridge, however, showed voters disapproving of the question...
...absentee ballot tacked to my bulletin board. I am not fired up enough to pay the price to have it sent home," Steven Tapp '71-4, one of the few undergraduates to have voted in two previous presidential elections, said yesterday...