Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winner!" shouted Industrialist Howard Samuels, who calls himself "the poor man's millionaire." "I will be nominated on the first ballot," predicted Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who recalled that his first New World forebear ran for public office in the 1690s. "I think I'm the only man," said New York City Council President Frank O'Connor, who was waiting for his rivals to evacuate Page One before formally announcing his own candidacy...
...first ballot-box test, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 worked as effectively as its most idealistic framers could have dreamed. More than 80% of Alabama's 235,000-plus registered Negroes turned out for the Democratic primary. Half of them had never been registered until the past year. Despite advance talk of Negro "apathy," after nearly a century of disfranchisement the act of voting was, for most, a compelling duty and an unforgettable experience. Said Willie Bolden, 81, the grandson of a slave, who had never cast a ballot until last week: "It made me think...
...Many learned to identify the names of the candidates they favored by staring for hours at crayon-lettered flash cards prepared by civil rights workers. Despite an election regulation that allowed just five minutes in the voting booth, some Negro novices puzzled and pondered over the mysteries of the ballot for as long as half an hour. Encouragingly-if unexpectedly-sympathetic white officials usually gave them all the time they needed, even helped confused illiterates by reading aloud the candidates' names and marking ballots when voters recognized those they supported...
...enough. Yet King had himself helped solidify the white vote by stumping the state to rally Negro support for State Attorney General Richmond Flowers, a fairly recent convert to racial moderation, who had gone all out for the Negro vote. As expected, the great majority of Negroes cast their ballots for Flowers. But the specter of a black-bloc vote effectively polarized the whites, whose unexpectedly unified vote sent Lurleen Wallace soaring ahead of Flowers and all eight other opponents. Without the open threat of a monolithic black ballot, white Alabamians' votes in the primary might well have been...
...Republicans-endorsed the Administration's basic policy, many of them expressed misgivings over the conduct of the war and the future of the Saigon government. Most expressed concern about Viet Nam's repercussions on the November elections-in which nine of the governors will appear on the ballot...