Word: freer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of a contest, but it did at least familiarize Pakistanis with election techniques against the day when a constitution is written and a freer democracy promised. Voters marked their ballots in curtained privacy, dropped them in padlocked steel ballot boxes; after tally clerks had tabulated the results, fleet couriers hopped on horse or camel, or jumped into autos or motorboats, to hurry to the nearest telegraph office. Many Pakistan electors decorated their ballots with Urdu or Bengali verses in praise of Sandhurst-trained Field Marshal Ayub, attached bills and checks payable to Ayub's favorite uplift projects...