Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outcome last week was not Hays but John F. Wells, publisher of the Arkansas Recorder, a Little Rock weekly and Hays's longtime friend-and longtime political critic. Charged Wells* in a well-documented complaint: 1) Alford write-in stickers were delivered to election officials along with ballots and ballot boxes; 2) contrary to law, the stickers had an "X" marked on them already; 3) in some hotly segregationist precincts more votes were cast than there were voters; e.g., in one ward in the little town of Jacksonville on the outskirts of Little Rock (362 registrants), Alford received...
...District, Betancourt's A.D. had been at work in Venezuela's hinterlands. The near-final returns: Betancourt 1,264,000, Larrazábal (who ran under the colors of another leftist party as well as on the Communist ticket) 898,000, Caldera 422,000. On their own ballot, for congressional seats, the Communists polled 160,000 votes...
...official ballot count was slow coming in from such out-of-the-way precincts as Nunivak Island, Pilot Point and Akutan, but long before all the outlying precincts were heard from in Alaska's first statehood election (minimum voting age: 19) the results were clear: the Democrats took every major elective office, from Governor on down, and in the 60-man legislature won every seat but four or five. Top men in the new state...
...Reds could have voted for Larrazábal on the yellow ballot of the leftist U.R.D. (Democratic Republican Union) Party, which also nominated him. But the Communists, who believe they will make an impressive showing in Venezuela's first free election since 1947, wanted their followers to vote on the party's own red-colored ballots so that Communist strength could be plainly exhibited. By granting his consent. Larrazaáal stands to gain an estimated 150,000 Red votes, which could be decisive if the three-way election is a close contest. Others in the race...
...contrary, I am a Catholic of unbreakable faith and a liberal democrat. My acceptance of Communist support does not signify any commitment, present or future." But by running up a big vote, the Reds hope that 1) lesser Communist candidates will ride into office on the red ballot, 2) Larrazábal will take Communists into his government. 3) he will be forever in their debt...