Word: ballotted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first ballot for every officer shall be informal ; after every alternate formal ballot, viz., the 2d, 4th, 6th, and c., the candidate having the smallest number of votes, and all other candidates having less than ten votes, shall be dropped...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in eight equal sections at eight separate polls. Voting by proxy shall not be alloed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes, cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
...unusually large audience, and, on account of its connection with the present political campaign, a great deal of interest was manifested in the discussion. The meeting was called to order at a quarter of eight. The minutes of the previous meeting were then read and approved, and a secret ballot taken on the merits of the question, which was, "Resolved, That the best interests of Massachusetts require the re-election of Gov. Butler." Mr. Sewall opened for the affirmative, speaking twice, as Mr. Barnes yielded his time to him ; and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Sanders opened for the negative...
...CRIMSON:-It seems to me that the committee of the senior class have adopted a wise resolution as to the dropping of candidates at the class election. Last year the committee recommended that the candidates having less than ten votes, etc., be dropped at the end of each formal ballot; but this recommendation was not approved by the class and there was no dropping at all. Before the end of the meeting it was universally admitted, I think, that it would have been better to drop the names as the committee recommended. It would seem advisable, then...
6.The first ballot for every officer shall be informal; after every alternate formal ballot, viz., the 2d, 4th, 6th, and c., the candidate having the smallest number of votes, and all other candidates having less than ten votes, shall be dropped...