Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Until every qualified person," continued Johnson, "regardless of the house where he worships or the state where he resides or the way he spells his name or the color of his skin-until he has the right unquestioned and unrestrained to go in and cast his ballot in every precinct in this country, I am not going to be satisfied...
...huge paper ballot discouraged ticket splitting, and last week vote canvassers, finally finishing the count, announced that all 118 Democratic candidates had won in their party's landslide. Leading the Democratic ticket with 2,361,623 votes was Adlai Stevenson III, 34, Chicago lawyer and son of U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Biggest vote getter, with 2,191,065, among the 59 elected Republicans: Earl Eisenhower, 66, one of Ike's brothers and a retired La Grange Park newspaper executive...
...political status for a people who have categorically rejected it in numerous elections." Munoz pointed out that Puerto Rico's minuscule Independence Party mustered less than 5% (22,000 out of 800,000) of the vote in the Nov. 3 elections-not even enough to remain on the ballot...
...campaign for a third term as Governor. In 1960 Freeman appointed him to fill the eight-month unexpired term of the state's attorney general, who had resigned. Mondale was elected on his own later that year; in 1962, running for reelection, he led everyone on the Minnesota ballot, Democrat and Republican...
...lawmaker, "and when this happens education becomes a pork barrel." Only two states, California and New York, follow master plans for higher education. Planning for public and secondary schools is equally incoherent. A "classic example" is Indiana, where the state superintendent of schools is elected on a partisan political ballot and staffs the agency on the spoils system...