Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maine: About 175 students demonstrated at Waterville, where vice-presidential candidate Senator Edmund Muskie cast his ballot...
...campaign would not send shivers up Richard Nixon's spine. She is only on the ballot in two states. She does not have advance men. When she travels, her entourage consists of a friend or two. Her only campaign workers are Community Party members in the cities she visits. Her speaking places are colleges, trade union meetings, street corners, and parks. And she spends almost as much time helping friends by watching the store and answering the telephone as she does campaigning...
...awkward behavior these days. After the Democratic convention, he declared in Biblical tones: "We will proceed as a Government in exile, and as a people in exile." The result has certainly been confusing. In New York, McCarthy joined a successful lawsuit to have his name removed from the ballot, thus preserving Humphrey's slim chance to win the state's 43 electoral votes. Yet, in campaigning for antiwar congression?! candidates in California, McCarthy has done nothing to discourage a massive write-in vote for himself. In California, this could cost Humphrey 400,000 popular votes and throw...
...country's moral choices by taking a no-compromise stand on a great issue, such as the Viet Nam war. Both McCarthy and Lyndon Johnson did just that, risking their political careers in the process. But voters have a different role: to convey their positions through the ballot, the most effective weapon they have. A conscientious citizen can hardly pass off that role easily. Surely the U.S. right not to vote, or to write in sure losers, also carries with it a duty to weigh the consequences, to consider the axiom that inaction is a form of action...
...Eugene J. McCarthy and Dick Gregory will be listed on the "Freedom Poll" ballot along with the major candidates. Space for write-ins will be provided...