Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gallantly trying to fight, almost without international support, the battle of the West against Chinese Communism. He is also a politician who knows he must carry a majority of the American "people with him in November if the "Battle of the West" is not to be lost in the ballot boxes of the U.S.A. This is an agonizing situation in which the President needs the support of as many influential persons and media as possible. At this juncture, every man, regardless of party, who agrees with the President on the international scene, should give him unequivocal support...
...threadlike through Anglo-American history, secured in Eng land first by the barons, then by Parliament, and finally by the people. In the U.S., the right "to petition the government for a redress of grievances," protected in the First Amendment of the Constitution, importantly reinforces the power of the ballot and gives citizens the chance to practice a kind of instant democracy...
...liberal Atlanta Democratic leaders Mayor Ivan Allen and Congressman Charles Weltner have both roundly denounced Maddox. Weltner, who resigned his office rather than obey the party oath to Maddox, stated that he will write in a third choice on his ballot...
Several Atlanta leaders have been organizing a write-in campaign for Arnall. Negro state senator Leroy John-son also favors a write-in. Carter, now a surprisingly active worker for Maddox, squashed any attempts to use his name on the ballot, but Arnall has remained cautiously silent on the matter...
Yorty may duck the whole question of endorsement this time around; he will leave this week on a tour of Japan with the Dodgers and will not return until after the November 8 election. He has applied for an absentee ballot...