Word: michelet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nottingham--Dobransky, Weiss v. Story--Bart, Michelet...
...Washington, D. C., a lawyer has started a National Get-Out-the-Vote Club. It is to be a non-partisan body, whose pure purpose will be to get qualified voters to vote. Simon Michelet, the founder, points out that, in the last Presidential election, for every 100 votes cast there were 194 people of voting age qualified to cast votes. He asserted that the voteless voters have increased in recent years and presented figures to show that of all qualified voters 80% cast ballots in 1896, 73% in 1900, 66% in 1908, 62% in 1912, and that...
Incidentally, in spite of Mr. Michelet's depressing percentages, the total vote in recent Presidential elec- tions has increased tremendously? due to growth of population and the fact that women (in 1920) were awarded the vote...