Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is every expectation that a slate of far-right delegates pledged to George Wallace will be entered in the primary. Getting on the ballot is relatively easy since only 13,000 signatures are required. At the other extreme, an ultra-liberal rump, the California Democratic Council, has announced that if the war is not over by September, it will then hold its own convention to choose a delegation pledged to a candidate who opposes Administration policy in Viet Nam. If the Democratic vote does split four ways in next June's primary...
...only 2.5% of the delegate voting power. Even so, Douglas approved the system because the board posts are "basically appointive rather than elective." Also approved: a Virginia Beach, Va., plan that gives each of seven equal districts a resident city councilman but requires that they be elected by citywide ballot. Finding no "invidious discrimination," Douglas saw the plan as a salutary "detente between urban and rural communities...
...wildly through six downtown blocks of Gary, Ind., blocking the city's major north-south artery for nearly four hours. It was not a riot but a rip-roaring victory celebration; their chant was not "Black power!" but "We beat the machine!" Through the nonincendiary power of the ballot box, Gary's Negroes had ousted the corruption-ridden regime of Mayor A. Martin Katz (TIME, April 29, 1966) and nominated one of their own race as the Democratic mayoral candidate in next November's general election. With their support, Richard Hatcher, 33, a bright, articulate lawyer...
...might splinter the Republican Party, and the Democratic vote could easily be 52 per cent," he said. In 1964 Barry Goldwater carried 51 per cent of the Georgia vote. A third party candidate in that state must get 100,000 signatures in order to be placed on the ballot...
Before the fourth ballot, however, Jay B. Stephens '68, president of the Harvard Republican Club and a convention chairman, said that two new delegates had been registered and would be allowed to vote. They were Harvard Republicans. Nixon supporters accused the chair of recruiting liberal Harvard delegates "off the street" and demanded a vote to close registration...