Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week when the votes were counted, Estes Kefauver won precisely one-half of one delegate vote-and that by a voting-machine fluke. The Meyner slate took the other 35½. Kefauver did little better in New Jersey's preferential vote. Running unopposed on the Democratic ballot, he received 110,000 votes against 329,000 for President Eisenhower on the Republican side...
Congressman John W. McCormack piled up a lead of almost two to one over Adlai Stevenson according to early returns on the Democratic ballot of yesterday's Massachusetts primary, which was marked by only ten percent attendance of the registered voters...
...complete amnesty was a practical step toward holding general elections. As a two-way political maneuver it is supposed to 1) deprive the government's opponents of a major ground for crying fraud, and 2) encourage them to make a fair try at gaining power by the ballot rather than by plotting or violence. Stumpf accepted the measure in that spirit. "We are forgetting all that has happened between us and the government," he said. "From now on we shall fight the government party within the framework...
...Hampshire primary that drew 105,188 voters of both parties. The total vote was some 31,000 less than that of 1952 and represented 32% of the state's eligible voters, as compared to the 43% turnout in the hotly contested 1952 primary. Unopposed on the ballot of the presidential preference section, Kefauver received 21,701 votes against 3,806 write-ins for Adlai Stevenson, who was not officially entered and did not campaign in the state. Far more important to Kefauver, he won all twelve of New Hampshire's Democratic delegate places (eight of the delegates will...
...politics he had acquired from his father, one of Mississippi's bigger, behind-the-scenes political operators. Once, remembers Jim, "I had to arrange for a whole board to get elected in order to elect myself business manager of the paper." On another occasion he broke open a ballot box for two strong reasons: 1) to fix the election of a friend as prettiest girl; 2) to filch ballots proclaiming him (as he recalls) biggest liar in the class...