Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shuck. To try to shuck his loser's image, Nixon hopes for accelerating primary triumphs in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Oregon and Nebraska. His aides say that he may also enter other state primaries against favorite-son Republicans. Nixon forces are banking, optimistically, on a first-or second-ballot victory at the convention...
...morning Fisher toured the polling places and concluded that the referendum met the highest standards of electoral honesty. "It took most of the evening to count the ballots because they would hold up a ballot and the man would say, 'the next ballot: question one [secession], yes; question two [interim government], yes; is there a challenge to the ballot?' Then they would pass the ballot around the table to see if any one of these sort of professional ballot challengers wanted to challenge it. The way the ballot was printed, it had a perforated slip across the top in which...
...Colonial, probably the most progressive of the top five clubs (others are Cottage, Ivy, Cap and Gown, and Tiger), members decided to keep Bicker this year in a close vote. Bicker won last month, 42-36, but 13 club members resigned before the crucial ballot over a complicated "moral" issue. They would have swung...
...suspended the 50 per cent rule because of the apathetic reaction to the first referendum. The common reaction from those asked to vote was "blah," one RGA member said. "I saw many people tearing up the ballot," she continued...
...also discussed matters pertaining to the printing of the ballot for the run-off referendum, including the color of the paper to be used...