Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elimination of Negroes from the Republican Party throughout the South to please Dry and anti-Catholic Democrats-R. T. Timothy, Negro Republican, and Major E. E. Winters, White Republican, both of Montgomery, Ala. Said Major Winters: "I cast my first vote for Abraham Lincoln 64 years ago and have been voting the Republican ticket early and often ever since, but this is more than even a 'hardened sinner' like me can stand...
Quadrennially, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the U. S. people perform what they call "electing a President." That is the effect of their performance, but not the form. What they do formally is to elect an Electoral College, which casts the actual vote for a President and Vice President. This vote is cast on the second Monday in January. It is not counted and tabulated until the second Wednesday in February, more than three months after the result has passed into history...
...ballot. That ticket of electors is the winner which receives a popular plurality, and to their Nominees goes the entire electoral vote of that State. In case there are three or more tickets of electors and the winning ticket gets less than half of all the votes cast, the majority has no redress. Neither would there be redress if all or part of the winning ticket of electors should, before the second Monday in January, "bolt" the party which elected it and shift or split the State's electoral vote. Such an event is almost unthinkable, party politics being...
Ballot. Of all the things a Nominee must do, one is to cast his own vote. He votes for himself, of course, but it is not the vote that is important. It is the principle of the thing, the example to others, the patriotic performance of one's civic duty. Unfortunately, it was discovered last week, the California law will prevent Nominee Hoover from casting his vote by mail. He had planned to be in the crucial East on the eve of the election. Plans were changed...
With November in mind, Republicans took their greatest comfort from the following Ohio totals, irrespective of alcoholic content-Republican votes cast, some 625,000; Democratic, some...