Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primary is over, and there remain three major candidates, among them H. Stuart Hughes, the first non-party candidate ever to collect the necessary 72,514 signatures to place his name on the ballot. Last week Lodge challenged Kennedy and Hughes to an hour long debate this Saturday at John Hancock Hall, but the television industry seems to have lost all interest in behaving like what it chooses to call a public forum...
Chilled, he fell sick with acute laryngitis, died 48 hours later. - Elector William Plumer of New Hampshire cast his ballot for John Quincy Adams, who said the vote caused him "surprise and mortification." Plumer later explained that he felt the honor of unanimity should be reserved for George Washington...
...seemed at times as though John Birch's name was on the ballot in Wisconsin's Republican primary for Governor. One candidate had the Birch Society's support and was glad of it; the other thought that was terrible, and made the most of it-and the society itself became the main issue. As the votes were counted last week, the man with the Birch backing...
...Senate. "The President's brother is patently unqualified," he says, "and none of the other candidates is really up to the job." Speaking Out. Hughes does not seriously expect to win a seat in the Senate, but neither is he running just for fun. To get on the ballot at all, he had to collect at least 72,500 petition signatures. His devoted band of followers, largely made up of pacifists and ban-the-bomb marchers, actually gathered 117,636-a remarkable feat. He has spent $30,000 on his campaign, piled up debts of $12,000. What...
...fact that Georgia's county-unit voting system has at last been overthrown by the courts. In years past, state elections in Georgia were decided not on popular votes but on a complex system where by each county was permitted so many unit votes in the ballot box. Invariably, this gave the rural counties a hugely dis proportionate balance of power against the populous areas; Griffin himself, for example, was elected in 1954 on only 36% of the popular vote...