Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the century ends, says Dr. Hammer, the voting booth may be a relic of the past. Present-day computers could be programmed to count and analyze ballots cast from any number of remote points anywhere in the country, and to keep a single running, up-to-the-second record of any election. In the future, any home with a telephone will be within dialing reach of election computers; voters, says Dr. Hammer, will be able to call in their ballots without leaving their homes. As an optimistic scientist, he sees the problems of identification of voters as an engineering...
...absolute surprise," said Rockefeller about the Massachusetts victory. "The first break. A big help." It was nearly all of that. The only name on the Bay State Republican ballot was Governor John Volpe, running as a favorite son. Neither Rockefeller nor Nixon had organized a write-in campaign. A minuscule, orphaned draft-Rockefeller group had remained barely alive, able to spend a grand total of $1,500 during the six weeks before primary...
Beholder & Beneficiary. The contest was close: Rockefeller, 31.1%; Volpe, 30%; Nixon, 26.2%, with the balance scattered. Under a new state law, Rockefeller gets all 34 convention votes on the first ballot-after that delegates are free to switch. While a minor victory in terms of delegate strength, it had a psychological impact. One of the strongest anti-Nixon arguments within the party is that Rockefeller, while not an orthodox Republican, is a vote-getting Republican, and the Bay State vote gave that thesis a little lift...
Though he was assured of victory in this week's Indiana primary-his was the only name on the G.O.P. ballot-Nixon nevertheless was eager to rack up a big vote to prove to the convention delegates that the people were indeed speaking his name. The crowds suggested that they were. At the Gary airport, 5,000 people waved and shouted at him, their voices reverberating in a huge hangar. "Do you want to go down a new road," asked Nixon, "or go down an old road with new faces?" The throng left no doubt that they preferred...
...primary, neither presidential contender's name appeared on the intricate ballot. Instead a slate of up to 21 local delegates represented each candidate...