Word: ballotted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three Republicans. In the primaries of North Dakota, William G. McAdoo stood unopposed for the Democratic nomination, leaving the real fight in the Republican camp between Coolidge, Hiram Johnson and La Follette. Coolidge was planted firmly on the ballot. So was Johnson. Before putting himself there he had assurances that Mr. La Follette did not enter. But he was entered?by his followers. Thereupon Mr. La Follette said he was not a candidate. His followers insisted he was. Johnson men instituted legal proceedings to have La Follette's name kept off the ballot. They won, but they incurred the hostility...
Then voting began. Coolidge led mightily in the city districts, conservative strongholds. Johnson was second, half a length behind; La Follette third. But the farmers of North Dakota were liberal with their saliva. Sticker on sticker was pasted on the ballot. Coolidge won finally. But the vote was in a 5-4-3 proportion, with La Follette second and Johnson last. The Johnson men protested that Coolidge was a minority victor?that the sticker campaign had merely served to split the progressive vote...
...Congressman Bloom, on the honest sentiment of this district, was elected by over 1,000 votes. There was found in the ballot boxes on the night of the special election at which he defeated Mr. Chandler nearly 700 ballots cast in sections of the district inhabited largely by Hebrews and marked for Mr. Bloom, but unfortunately marked at the end of his name-to the right hand of the voting square instead of the left, and outside of the voting square, marked by men and women accustomed to read the Hebrew language-a literature which reads from right to left...
...strange that the same classes, which in their first year, complete their voting so expeditiously, should require each succeeding year a longer period. The Class of 1925, for example, after a successful two-day campaign in the Freshman year, found itself still short a hundred votes after five days' balloting in its Sophomore year; this experience proved instructive, however, and the postal ballot system was used to great advantage this year. Similarly, the Class of 1924 required over four days as Sophomores, and quite as long as Juniors. At that time, it was seriously discussed whether class officers were, after...
...this circumstance does not inspire heated electioneering or eager voting. On the other hand, it ought to be equally clear that however mechanical these tasks may be some one must perform them. But the answer appears to have been found by the Class of 1925 in the postal ballot...