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Geisel's "victory" was assured when the generals ruled that the President would be chosen by the electoral college, which is controlled by the National Renewal Alliance, the government party. The government offered to pay $1,600 to each elector who showed up to vote; as a result, there were few empty seats in the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia on election day last week. Geisel picked up 400 of 497 votes. So predictable was his election that he did not even bother attending the voting session...
...lake into the sun or watch in silence the absurd parade of ducks and drakes or the wheeling Frisbees in the sky. Lazing in a field are clusters of young longhairs, some of them students, some wanderers from other nations. They all speak the same language: guitar and hash. Elector Karl Theodor designed this park in 1789. It was not Karl Theodor who inscribed the familiar four-letter Anglo-Saxon words on the sober columns of the Greek temple in the garden...
Before they finally chose Giovanni Leone, 63. as President of Italy last week, the nation's "grand electors" had seemed intent upon proving themselves incapable of dealing with politics either simply or logically. As the curious and unseemly squabble over who should get Italy's highest political office dragged on inconclusively for a record 16 days and 23 ballots, one vote was cast for Alighiero Noschese, a television comedian who does a splendid impersonation of Richard Nixon. On another ballot, one elector absentmindedly dropped a love letter into the green wicker voting urn. Most of the time, there...
...disgruntled right-winger, two Democrats last week challenged the wayward Republican's vote. Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, the defeated vice-presidential nominee, and Michigan Representative James O'Hara invoked an 1887 statute under which a majority of both houses may reject any vote by an elector that has not been "regularly given." The motion was soundly defeated, but the two Democrats believe that they have made a point. Said Muskie: "I hope that the consequences of Congress' action are understood by all Americans-and by Congress itself...
...Bailey is the sixth elector in U.S. history to defy his party. The others: Pennsylvanian Samuel Miles, chosen as a Federalist, voted for Thomas Jefferson rather than John Adams in 1796; former Senator William Plumer of New Hampshire voted for John Quincy Adams rather than James Monroe, 1820; Preston Parks of Tennessee voted for Strom Thurmond instead of Harry Truman, 1948; W. F. Turner of Alabama voted for a circuit judge instead of Adlai Stevenson, 1956; Henry D. Irwin of Oklahoma ignored his pledge to Nixon and voted for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd...