Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators, how say you?" repeated Senator Pittman for the seventh time.. "Guilty," "Guilty," "Not Guilty," "Guilty," came the answers in order. It was going to be as close as the first ballot. Senator Bachman, who had consistently voted "guilty," had left the floor. Just as the roll call was ending he re-entered to cast the last vote, "Guilty." The tally clerks checked and rechecked the result...
Next morning Wisconsin voters went to the polls to ballot in their Presidential primaries. As simple as the Nazi ticket in Germany was the first choice offered. Those who voted in the Democratic primary were given the choice of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Those who voted in the Republican primary were given the choice of William E. Borah. Alternatives there were none, but that was not a matter of great importance, for this Presidential preference vote was really no more than a popularity rating. The real test was on delegates to the two national conventions. On the Democratic ticket...
...Borah vote did not represent the full Republican strength because the regular Republicans opposed to the Senator presumably did not vote at all in this popularity contest. Not well educated in their own primary laws, only 70 voters out of 100 who went to the polls bothered to ballot for delegates, the only thing that counted. In that vote the Roosevelt delegates won easily. The four Borah delegates-at-large won over uninstructed delegates about 5-to-4. Result: Of Wisconsin's 24 delegates Candidate Borah now counts...
...question was whether 300,000 votes, or any majority from downstate, could match the Chicago machine's efficient vote-making equipment. Dispassionate observers believed that the machine could count 300,000 votes by the "endless chain system'" alone. This device requires the theft of only one blank ballot by each precinct captain and absolutely insures that all votes bought are delivered. The blank ballot is marked and given to a hired voter who puts it in his pocket, takes it into the polling place, receiving another blank as he enters. In the booth he puts the new blank...
...ends at 6 in the evening. No German Comrade dare be absent, and I urge all voters most strongly to vote during the morning hours. By 1 o'clock in the afternoon the election must be over. During the afternoon I will have all laggards dragged to the ballot box. None shall escape us. Klein-Machnow is surrounded and shut...