Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called the SDS plan to ban ROTC from Harvard "anti-democratic and anti-civil-libertarian." Answering charges that the YPSL referendum proposal is unacceptable because it does not include a choice of complete abolition of ROTC, Guberman said that "such a position does not deserve to be on the ballot. It is a fundamental characteristic of a civil liberty," he continued, "that if it is subject to a vote, it is not a civil liberty...
...extraordinary and possibly outrageous that the President and Vice President are the only two elected officials in the U.S. who are not chosen by direct popular ballot. Yet no matter how acute the need for reform, the prospects are discouraging. Americans overwhelmingly favor change now, but as new crises develop, they are likely to forget about the problem until some future presidential contest again threatens to capsize the election system. More important, smaller states are certain to reject an amendment that would severely diminish their importance. Since a constitutional amendment requires ratification by three-fourths of the states as well...
...candidates during the last two days before the vote. The expenditure of millions for radio and TV time up to the last possible moment was probably wise tactics. It was the kind of campaign in which many voters withheld a final decision until actually confronted with the ballot...
When Lyndon Baines Johnson enters the voting booth this week at the Pedernales Electric Co-Op in Johnson City, his name, for a change, will not be on the ballot. After 31 years in Washington and ten consecutive election victories, L.B.J. will be coming home. His fellow-Texans in Johnson City will be pleased to have him back...
...already garbled message was further confused by electronic blips telling Wallace voters DO NOT ALTER YOUR BALLOT or A VOTE FOR WALLACE-GRIFFIN IS A VOTE FOR WALLACE-LEMAY. The former name was on the ballot in most states and that confusion seemed a microcosm of the campaign...