Word: maddox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When moderate Ellis Arnall seemed a cinch to win the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Georgia two months ago, Republicans crossed party lines and voted overwhelmingly for racist Lester Maddox on the assumption tha the would be the easier candidate to defeat in the general election. Then Maddox faced Republican segregationalist Bo Callaway in the general election three weeks ago, and Arnall got his revenge. Callaway led Maddox, 451,032 to 448,598, but a six per cent write-in vote for Arnall prevented either candidate from gaining a majority of the popular vote. Then the legal entanglements began...
...candidate receives an absolute majority. Georgia's legislature, however, has not been completely reapportioned in compliance with the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote ruling. The Court gave the legislature until 1968 to reapportion itself, but nevertheless two suits were filed to block a legislative election between Maddox or Callaway, both alluding to the present legislature's unrepresentative character...
Dixie Dozen. In Georgia, the hangup was a matter of old math-Southern style. With 451,032 votes, Republican Congressman Howard Call away had an undisputed lead over Democrat Lester Maddox, who had 448,598. But Democrat Ellis Arnall, a former Governor and the contest's only racial moderate, got 57,832 write-in votes and, under an amendment adopted in 1824, Georgia's constitution requires that a gubernatorial candidate must win more than 50% of the popular vote in order to be elected. If no contender wins an absolute majority, according to the constitution...
...federal district court to uphold the legislature's right to name the Governor. The American Civil Liberties Union filed two suits in the same court to void the anachronistic constitutional provision and order a new election. Callaway supporters asked the court to order a runoff between Callaway and Maddox, with write-ins barred. Yet another petition, brought by pro-Arnall forces, sought to permit write...
...compelled to hold a new popular election in the next few months. Even this might not settle anything, because the pro-Arnall faction, called Write In Georgia (W.I.G.), is growing in strength. Democratic Representative Charles Weltner, who chose not to run for re-election because he could not stomach Maddox, warned: "We could go on forever with write-ins. We might not have a Governor for four years." Meanwhile, able Incumbent Carl Sanders, 41, who cannot succeed himself, will stay on in the statehouse...