Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge City Council's game of musical chairs left all the incumbents sitting down as the ballot count ended Saturday afternoon...
...University of Chicago student government will hold new elections this Tuesday in the wake of a scandal in which the president of the government admitted to ballot-stuffing, said David Rosen, the university's associate vice president for public affairs...
...ballot-stuffing and a host of other irregularities--including the fact that the government vice president was not an enrolled student--rendered illegitimate the previous election, held in mid-October, according to a report by an ad hoc committee formed by the Student Assembly...
...scandal started to unravel when junior James C. Jacobsen, the assembly vice president, privately confronted the president of the government, junior Kathryn E. Sampeck, with evidence that he said proved that she had stuffed a ballot box while working as a poll watcher in a campus cafeteria...
...report questioned whether names were placed on the ballot in random order, or in an order calculated to help the candidates whose names were on top. It also criticized as an "error in judgement" the use of candidates as poll watchers...