Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement of the results of the five men picked for the Album Committee shows the same astounding mishandling. According to the explicit instructions on the ballots and the notices accompanying the photographs of the nominees, members of the class were to pick five men for the Album Committee by preference. When the results were made known it was clear that the votes had been counted by straight numerical tabulation and each figure was marked as an equal vote. When this was pointed out to the officers in charge, the answer was that the announcement on the ballot was a mistake...
...evident laxity of the members of the committee in regard to the making up of the ballot, the inadequacy of their explanations, and their changing of position in regard to another election, are indications that prove that the present system of holding elections at Harvard needs radical revision. Undergraduate elections, sloppy in instances during the last three years, reach the limit of their irresponsibility in the present case. It is suggested that the Student Council undertake the drawing up of an election code for all future undergraduate elections, and thereby create an ordinance to guard against such unfortunate occurrences...
From 9 to 1 o'clock today Seniors will have their last chance of voting for class officers. Ballot boxes are situated in Harvard Hall, Server Hall, and in the left entry of Pierce Hall. Seniors will also be asked to vote on the question: "Do you favor class insurance as a means of raising the class fund...
Voting for Senior Class officers will take place today and tomorrow from 9 to 1 o'clock in the following three buildings: Harvard Hall, Sever Hall, and in the left entry of Pierce Hall, in the Engineering School. There will be no ballot in Widener Library as previously announced...
These men, nominated by petitions signed by 25 more members of the Class of 1931, complete the ballot which will be used in this week's elections, which take place tomorrow and Thursday mornings...