Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress handily, candidates will henceforth be allowed to run for only one office at a time as a representative of only one party at a time. To limit the multiplying number of parties (13 at last count), no new party will be admitted to next year's national ballot unless it obtains signatures from 3% of the 18 million registered voters...
...broader sense the blame lies with all of us. We have seen minds which would throw out a ballot, and we have permitted them to live. We have taken the worst from among us, and systematically elevated them to the HCUA. We have seen the office of class marshal reduced to a scrap of carrion for which jackals fight...
David P. Eisenman '65 is back on the ballot. The Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs announced late yesterday afternoon that it had reversed its ruling disqualifying Eisenman for "campaigning," that a recount showed Eisenman had finished among the top eight candidates, and that therefore an unprecedented nine candidates would be on the ballot in today's marshal elections...
HCUA Chairman H. Reed Ellis is to be commended for his decision to reinstate David Eisenman '65 on the ballot for class marshal. But this face-saving maneuver cannot disguise the HCUA's unfair and stupid handling of the elections...
...among the top eight. Ellis decided to let him run, and dropped from the list the ninth-place candidate who had been announced as a finalist. But then the HCUA decided this was unfair, so it reversed itself again and allowed nine names to be placed on today's ballot...