Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provinces, the Viet Cong have been ordered to attack candidates, raid election stations, destroy ballot boxes and pressure peasants to boycott the polls. During last September's elections for the Constituent Assembly, the V.C. assassinated 37 candidates and cam paign workers. Since the presidential election is far more important, this time they are aiming higher...
...election procedure was described last night by a labor lawyer as very similar to that in municipal elections. Campaigning is allowed. The ballot is secret. A plurality wins...
...popular initiative must get the signatures of eight per cent of the registered voters--about 4000 names--before the Cambridge charter requires the City Council to put it on the ballot...
...Vote on Vietnam canvassers have concentrated exclusively on working class parts of Cambridge, mostly north and east of Central Square. Getting the resolution on the ballot is only a secondary goal, much as Vietnam hearings are secondary for the CNC. The primary purpose, according to one member, is to start working class people thinking about...
Even if the Vote on Vietnam canvassers have as much success with all Cambridge as they seem to have had with Mrs. K., there is some question whether their resolution qualifies to be put on the ballot. It is uncertain whether the charter requires the City Council to place on the ballot a statement directed at a national issue, outsode the pervue of local government. The canvassers people expect the council to try to disqualify the petition "on technicalities," and they are preparing to fight the matter out in court...