Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minnesota Republican leaders said they would place the President's name in their March 20 primary, claimed to have assurances that it would not be withdrawn (under Minnesota law, the name would stay on the ballot unless the President specifically asked that it be removed...
...Kenya's 5,900,000 population, are represented on the existing 56-member Legislative Council by six Africans appointed by the colonial governor. Under new recommendations made by the British Colonial Office and the Kenya government, these six members would henceforth be elected by direct secret ballot...
...earn up to six votes. Coutts's proposals came under attack in England as discriminatory democracy, but they also won praise as an attempt to bridge the obvious difficulties and dangers in giving the vote to unschooled tribesmen. Their most important feature was conferring the secret ballot on individuals rather than relying on headmen to vote for all their people...
...Republicans lyrically referred to the speech as "superb, superlative, and sublime." Even the President failed to repeat last year's plea for "harmony and good will" as he attempted to set a liberal Republican platform that could bring victory in November with or without his name on the ballot...
This was bad enough, but it was not all. French authorities rigged the Arab elections in favor of stooges whom the Arabs call beni oui ouis (yes, yes men). Mendes was more candid about this than any top French politician had ever been before. "We discredited democratic procedures. The ballot is counterfeit. The ballot boxes are stuffed. The winners are picked by the government...