Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whose favorite pastime is taking pokes at the Farm Bureau: "What Charlie Shuman doesn't realize is that we've got the welfare state and we've had it for 30 years. And we're not going to give it up unless we lose the ballot...
Brazil's doughty President Humberto Castello Branco is caught in a bind. He has promised to hold gubernatorial elections in eleven states (out of 22) in October and a presidential election next year; his revolution, he says, "is not afraid of the ballot box." But because Castello Branco has a scruple against outlawing the opposition, one of the contenders for votes will be the Brazilian Labor Party, the power behind the inflationist, leftist regime that Castello Branco overthrew last year. The President is counting on electoral courts to use the new Ineligibilities Law to keep off the ballot candidates...
News at Lunch. In the end, the Young Turks and the advocates of toughness won. On the first ballot, Heath polled 150 votes, Maudling 133, and 15 votes went to a third candidate...
Heath thus got an overall majority of two but fell 28 short of the 15% winning margin that the rules require. A second ballot was thus in order, but Maudling, reached at lunch with fellow directors of his bank, saw that a clear choice had been made. In the interests of party unity, he telephoned Heath his congratulations and withdrew his own candidacy...
While hordes of demonstrators disjointedly roamed the streets of Athens, Novas consulted with the King and an nounced that Parliament would attempt to reconvene this week, for "only Parliament's rejection by ballot can dismiss us." But for the moment, at least, it also seemed that sooner or later Parliament would do just that, and young King Constantine would either be forced to recall Papandreou or call the new elections that Papandreou demands...