Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loser in yesterday's primary was Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. Only 15 per cent of Nebraska's voters showed their support for him either by writing-in his name--which wasn't on the ballot--or by voting for President Johnson...
Nebraskans may indicate support for Humphrey either by writing in Humphrey's name--which is not on the ballot--or by voting for President Johnson--who is on the ballot. Humphrey entered the presidential race too late to have his name placed on the Nebraska ballot, and Johnson withdrew too late to have his removed...
Ironically, Kennedy could win a plurality in Nebraska's popular voting, yet lose a substantial portion of the state's 28 convention delegates to McCarthy. Because Nebraska filings closed before Bobby announced, no Kennedy-committed candidates are listed on the ballot to select the 22 at-large delegates. The at-large ballot is a bewildering laundry list of 75 names-21 identified as uncommitted, 30 as committed to Lyndon Johnson, and 24 as committed to McCarthy. If the Minnesotan's partisans carefully vote only for his delegates while the rest of the ballots are scattered among...
George Wallace's third-party quest for the presidency has captured so many hearts and spleens that by last week he was already on the November ballot in 16 states. Yet a briar patch was growing in his own home state. His reputation is built not only on the sands of segregation but on a claim of bedrock honesty as well. "The books are always open," he liked to brag about his days as Alabama Governor. Now an angry Alabamian has opened the books in federal court...
...late Cambridge police chief, organized and headed the winning slate. He has worked in City Hall and knew just what kind of tactics would win in this part of Cambridge. A sophomore at Boston University, Brennan got three of his former Little League teammates to join him on the ballot: Anthony McI. Glavin '68, Roger O'Sullivan, a junior at Boston State, and Brendon Synnott, a senior at Boston State. The four students all finished in the first six places. Brennan balanced the rest of the slate with Mrs. Barbara Armistead, a Cambridge Civic Association member; Joseph Carceo, former president...