Word: polls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some haulers marched voters right to the polls, watched while they voted and then paid them on the spot within a few yards of election officials. Outside the polls, the vote-buyers kept "bird dogs" on patrol to make sure that everything went smoothly. At one poll, it was reported, Leesville Mayor Ralph McRae Jr. ordered onlookers to back away. When the FBI arrived because of complaints from the Wilson forces, the payoff center was moved to a dead-end street. There, under a towering pine (called, yes, the money tree), some $10,000 in cash was disbursed...
Garth, who speaks little Spanish, relied on two top staffers who spoke the local language, and used two American law students to take his poll surveys for him. Herrera and Piñerua each spent an estimated $8 million for TV time. President Pérez, who naturally had an interest in seeing Piñerua elected, meanwhile managed to get around a law barring presidential involvement in an election by hitting the hustings on what were billed as "administrative tours." His government spent $15 million touting its achievements and otherwise burnishing its image. To critics of that blatant electioneering...
...FIRST attempt to solicit student opinion before attempting to lobby the University administration, the Student Assembly will poll undergraduates on several issues, some of which are indeed important. A substantial turnout is necessary for the referendum to have any significance, so we urge that all students give thought to the issues involved and vote...
...This poll represents one of the few actions the Student Assembly has taken in its much-heralded first semester in action as the undergraduate voice. We earnestly hope that the information gathered in this poll will lead to concrete accomplishment on the part of next semester's Assembly...
...most reliable pre-election poll in Massachusetts may have been conducted with chocolate chip cookies. Vincent D'Olimpio Jr., a Hyannis baker, wrote the names of the gubernatorial candidates in icing on the cookies, allowing customers to buy their preference. Democrat Edward King had 295 cookie-buying supporters compared with Republican Frank Hatch's 287-close to the actual margin for King in the election...