Word: ballotted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...notice in Saturday morning's CRIMSON, that a victory is ascribed to Johnson over Bryan in Friday's straw ballot. I wish to take issue with this misleading statement. As a matter of fact, Bryan received a big majority over Johnson from the Democratic voters. It is ludicrous, to say the least, to count Republican votes for Democratic nominees, unless a Democrat is given first or second place. To force a Republican to vote for two Democrats is something quite apart from actual politics; nor are Democrats supposed to vote for Republicans in an actual election. The mere fact that...
...result of the straw ballot for the election of president of the United States, held under the auspices of the Harvard Political Club in the CRIMSON office yesterday, resulted as follows...
...availability, his ability to win votes, General Woodford said, everyone of the 15,000,000 policy holders of the insurance companies of America would gratefully cast his ballot for Hughes, and he is the only candidate who can certainly carry the 39 electoral votes of New York so necessary to Republican success...
...been decided to print the names of the candidates--Bryan, Hughes, Johnson, and Taft--on a single ballot, the men voting to indicate their preference in order. By this means it will be possible to determine the number of votes any candidate would receive under any circumstances, either in the event of his own nomination or the nomination of any other of the candidates...
Provision on the ballot will be made for men to indicate if they favor a third term for President Roosevelt, and if they do, how many will vote...