Word: polling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elections will be held on Wednesday, October 25. The polls will be placed in Sever Hall and at the Class of '77 Memorial Gate. The election committee and poll watchers have yet to be appointed, but will be announced Monday...
...Whipple had defeated Gaston for the nomination, it is possible he would have been elected. In the Republican primaries Democratic interests, the League of Nations and all, were almost perfectly represented by Mr. Joseph Walker. He polled 70,000 votes, which were a third of Senator Lodge's 210,000 and two-fifths of the total Democratic 170,000. In the November elections, the 70,000 pro-League Independents voting for Walker would vote for a pro-League Democratic nominee. These 70,000 votes added to the Democratic poll of 170,000 would defeat Lodge. But the Democratic candidate...
...following men are appointed poll-watchers, and will be expected to provide substitutes if they are unable to be on hand at the allotted times...
...Remainder of class must ballot today"--22nd, "Fall to cast enough votes"--23rd, "Once more fail to cast enough votes". This same class which had been "unanimously" in favor of the amendment, at its next election, was obliged to ballot on more than one day to poll, the required percentage...
Obviously such a poll will be of no value if those voting do not express an honest opinion; as this is not an income tax blank, it costs no more to be sincere. Half-hearted support in this, as in class elections, will doom the experiment to failure...