Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Haven, Conn., June 2, 1916.--In a straw ballot presidential election held by the Yale News today, Theodore Roosevelt '80 received the highest number of votes with a total of 933. Wilson was second with 591, and Hughes third with 365. Root received 133, Bryan 4, Benson 3, Taft 2, Borah 1, Burton 1, Ford 1, Sherman 1, and Underwood...
...total votes cast numbered 2036, as against 1788 cast by members of the University in the straw ballot election held by the CRIMSON on May 2. At Yale, Roosevelt received about 40 per cent. of the entire vote, while the University gave him about 34 per cent. Wilson's total of 591 votes at New Haven was exactly the same as his total here. Seventeen candidates were voted for by members of the University, and twelve at Yale...
Voting will continue throughout today at the various dining halls in the University. In order to get as complete a vote as possible the Student Council has also sent out return postal cards. The result of this vote will be combined with the ballot system. The votes of those men who, have used both methods, however, will only be counted once, while any undergraduates who have cast no vote whatsoever are urged to do so today. The direct ballot, however, is preferred to the postal cards, but to insure obtaining everybody's vote both systems should be employed...
...clock in the morning, from 12 until 1.30, and from 5.30 until 7.15. In each voting place there will be a man in charge, and a certain number of watchers, whose duty it will be to see that each voter signs his name and class and drops his ballot into the box provided for the purpose...
...students of Radcliffe held a straw ballot last week. Wilson was the winning candidate, receiving 105 votes. Then followed: Roosevelt 64, Hughes 40, Root 7, Ford 3, Benson 2, and La Follette...