Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states like Massachusetts where no left wing candidates qualify for the ballot or for a legal write in, one should refuse to vote for the Presidency...
...about one out of every five voters?something like 14 million Americans?will choose the moment's satisfaction and pick Wallace and General Curtis LeMay, his running mate, next month. Fervent Wallaceites may, of course, decide at the last minute that a vote for their man is a wasted ballot and switch to either Humphrey or Nixon, but there is no evidence that this will happen. Thousands echo the opinion of Charles Gutherie, a cement finisher from Los Angeles: "You take Nixon and Humphrey and shake 'em up in a bag and they come out the same?a couple...
...after Barry Goldwater was nominated, support for Wallace's American Independent Party is concentrated in the South, where Gallup gives him 38% of the vote, more than he gives either Nixon or Humphrey. But strong Wallace sentiment is found in every other section as well. He is on the ballot in all 50 states. (The Supreme Court may knock...
...attempts to punish by legislation without giving its intended victims "a modicum of procedures to defend themselves." In an amicus curiae memorandum, the Justice Department indirectly supported the A.C.L.U.'s case. It said that the Communist Control Act barred the party but not individual Communists from the ballot...
...Control Act "jabs at the very core of our traditional freedoms." The third judge did not go quite that far. But in a concurring opinion, he said that since so little time was left before the election, there would be less harm in letting the Communists appear on the ballot now than in denying them a right they might win in the future. The court's decision confirms a growing view among constitutional lawyers that the Communist Party is indeed a legal political organization. As a result, its national ticket will be placed before the Minnesota electorate-the first...