Word: electoral
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...NOMINATIONS. (a) Every nomination must be made in writing, signed by not less than fifteen eligible senior electors, enclosed in a sealed envelope marked only "Senior Nominaton," and left at 44 College House before 7 p. m. of Saturday, December 11th. An elector may sign one nomination paper for every office to be filled, and no more...
...RULES OF VOTING AND ELECTION.- An official printed ballot will be used, on which names of candidates will be entered for the several places in alphabetical order. The elector must prepare his ballot in secret booths, to be provided...
...Every elector shall vote for three candidates for Marshals, indicating by 1, 2, 3, his preference for First, Second and Third Marshal. The three candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected Marshals. Of these three elected, that candidate receiving the highest number of votes for First Marshal shall be elected First Marshal; of the other two elected, that one whose total vote for First and Second Marshal is the greater, shall be Second Marshal; the other candidate being Third Marshal...
...office proper (for example, a marshalship) could still come up for a committee place. If all-day voting by the Australian ballot be adopted, this balloting on two different days, while a little more inconvenient perhaps to the tellers, would be no great hardship on the individual elector who who could vote between lectures without sacrifice of time. This must still seem far preferable to the antiquated method of spending an evening, and perhaps a good part of the night in a meeting where speeches must of necessity be forbidden and where most of the time is taken...