Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flew back three weeks ago to supervise the election. Scarcely a ballot box was left unstuffed, or an oppositionist unintimidated in Lozano's electoral effort. For what it was worth, he won. But when his cops topped off the fraud by shooting into a crowd of demonstrators on Election Day, Lozano's number was up. With the gentle air of friends who know what is best, the general, the colonel and the major eased him out. Said the junta: "We intend to govern democratically." It was the 13 5th revolution in Honduras' history-and the first military...
Considering the gravity of the latter choice and the seriousness with which all take the opportunity to vote, it would seem all the more important that the voters be presented with a comprehensible ballot. Instead they are given a preference system justifiable only because it is hinted at in the Council's constitution...
Gullible freshmen might not be the proper guineapigs for this system since an Estes Kefauver sort of candidate for the Jubilee Committee could handshake himself into office by seeing a hundred of his less perceptive classmates. For freshman, a system based on a weighted ballot, giving the first preference ten points, the second nine, and so on might be an improvement. Of course, this system might present tabulation difficulties to the Council, but special member could always be appointed from the Mathematics Department...
Preliminary tallies indicated last night that more than 7,000 University students voted yesterday in the CRIMSON's election poll. The last ballot box was collected at-Radcliffe at 10 p.m. last night to round out the totals...
CRIMSON representatives, flanked by ballot-watchers from the student political organizations, will collect the polls in the House dining halls, at Harkness Commons, and at Vanderbilt Hall of the Medical School. Women at Radcliffe will find the polls in their mail-boxes this morning and are asked to deposit them in the Student Government boxes at bell desks...