Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five of the seven House Committees originally nominate men from the Sophomore and Junior classes whose names then appear on the ballot for election to the Committee, while the other two provide for original nomination by petition...
Although in the case of the first five Houses mentioned, extra names may be added to the ballot through petitions signed by ten or more residents of the House, usually few names are added, since the general attitude of the students is one of apathy towards the elections. In the Houses where original nominations are by petition few men have the up-and-get to circulate pleas for their friends, and the job of selecting candidates falls back on the Committees...
Thus willy-nilly the House Committees find themselves in virtual control of the names that appear on the ballot...
...keynoter and temporary chairman of a national political convention is, as most voters know, the man who starts the show with a long, ardent harangue which is forgotten by the time the first nominating ballot is taken. Nonetheless the Press made a great stir last week when, as a gesture to the West and liberals, the potent Committee on Arrangements of the Republican National Committee picked Oregon's mildly progressive Senator Frederick Steiwer to sound the Party keynote at Cleveland next June. Republican newspapers tried to make the gesture seem important. Democratic sheets gleefully compared the probable content...
...mounted to 4,807 by the time polling places were opened.* At the end of ten hours, the 10,000,000 voters had only succeeded in electing 179 Deputies by a clear majority of votes cast. All the other districts will have to have a second ballot this Sunday when a straight plurality will elect a candidate. Commentators, soothsayers, fortunetellers, numerologists and betting commissioners promptly sat down to make what they could of election results. A few facts were obvious...