Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Associated Harvard Clubs was formed primarily to insure the nomination of a midwestern candidate to the Board of Overseers. Its liberalizing tendency is to be seen in the fact that the procedure of the postal ballot, used at present to insure the right of every alumnus who has been a graduate for more than five years to vote in Overseers elections, was the result of action by the Associated Harvard Clubs...
...South Lawn to a quivering olive-drab giant, Army H34 Helicopter No. 64316, that needed only 34 minutes to set him down 80 miles away beside his home-town polling booth in Barlow Fire Hall, near Gettysburg. He tore the identifying #35 off the corner of his Pennsylvania primary ballot and boarded his bird again, whisking off to Harrisburg...
...week's end, with Humphrey and Freeman looking on benignly, the convention gave the plum to Congressman Gene McCarthy by 615.5 to 278.5 on the second ballot...
Chances are that Fanfani is indeed sweating. Under Italy's new electoral law-a complex melange of straight and proportional representation-the Communists and Christian Democrats will have to increase their ballot by between 500,000 and 1,000,000 votes in order not to lose parliamentary seats. By contrast, an increase of only 400,000 votes-half what they polled in the last election-could double the number of Liberal seats in the Chamber of Deputies...
Though he admits that this charge is true, Warshaw has maintained that Reische's petition was too late even to be included on the ballot. Warshaw also claims that Reische's campaign was "not held on a high enough level," since it used poor taste...