Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amounts to, however, is a delaying action. A Senate-House conference will be held, probably net year. If the features of the House bill are retained and the measure is passed, a referendum (thoroughly unnecessary since Washington voted 6-to-1 for home rule on last year's Presidential ballot) will be held. The charter might be drafted and sent back to Congress by 1967, and this is precisely the point: no one knows who will be in Congress in two years, but the history of off-year elections indicates that the House will be more conservative than this year...
Yale was the only team that failed to receive at least one first place vote in the polling and did not rate a single second-place ballot, either...
Boston School Committeewoman Louise Day Hicks led the ballot early this morning in the city's preliminary election...
...Registration is not voting. What guarantees are there that the Negro in the South will be allowed to cast his ballot when election time comes? What is to prevent some of the self-styled "law-enforcement" officers from barring the way either physically or on trumped-up excuses...
...Bishop, Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier was "honest" and "intelligent." Commenting on last year's carefully supervised election, in which Papa Doc stood alone on the ballot, Bishop wrote: "The Haitians liked him so well that they elected him President for life. This was not a spurious, rigged election. He could call one tomorrow and win easily." Bishop was equally impressed by the dictator's secret police, the tonton macoute: They "comprise a personal force whose function is to keep President Duvalier acquainted with the true temper of the people...