Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy was holding a steady 52 per cent in the election of 80 delegates to cast 72 votes at the Democratic Convention this fall. This is almost the same percentage that John F. Kennedy '40 received when he ran unopposed on the democratic ballot in the 1960 Massachusetts primary...
Volpe, the only candidate on the Republican ballot, was falling short of his supporters' predictions with only 35 per cent of his party's votes. Rockefeller had 29 per cent, while write-ins for McCarthy were giving him 9 per cent of the Republican vote...
Under the terms of the new Massachusetts presidential preference law, party delegates are required to vote for the primary winners on the first ballot at the national convention. But the second ballot seems to be floating in midair. occupational deferments for all their
Although the GSOC slate faces no formal opposition on the ballot, a conservative faction of the Graduate Student Association (GSA) has kept support for the "new left group" at a minimum, according to Margaret Theeman, a member of the Graduate Student Council...
McCarthy and Volpe automatically win first-ballot convention support from the state's convention delegates. The percentage of write-in votes that other candidates receive will not be especially indicative. Write-in voting on machines is a cumbersome process that sometimes discourages voters. Many voters don't even know that machine write-ins are possible...