Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four brawling wards north of Kansas City's 31st Street, Pendergast lieutenants energetically rounded up 12,000 voters, who started Enos Axtell off with a whopping 10,000-vote lead. In one blue ribbon precinct 430 out of 529 registered voters obediently trooped to the polls, 395 of them for Candidate Axtell. It was a handicap Roger Slaughter could not beat, even after winning the nine other wards in the District. The final, unofficial returns: Axtell, 20,424; Slaughter...
...polls were opened it appeared that the arrangement might strike a snag. Poll watchers from the upstart G.I. Nonpartisan Ticket were embarrassingly overzealous. Sheriff Mansfield's deputies felt compelled to bundle one young watcher off to jail. When a Negro farmer turned up to vote in Precinct 11, an annoyed deputy shot him in the back. At the cramped polling place in the rear of the Dixie Cafe, khaki-shirted veterans could not seem to crowd their way up to the ballot...
Tammany's paternalistic precinct captain seemed to be losing ground to the ruggedly radical, rain-or-shine A. L. Partisan...
...ardent follower of progressive Governor Ellis Arnall, Mrs. Mankin was supported by the local Political Action Committee. On election night, she was running behind until the ballot box from Atlanta's Ward 3, Precinct B, was opened. The precinct, where all but ten registered voters are Negroes, was supervised by Negro poll officials, for the first time in Atlanta's history. In the box were 956 votes for Mrs. Mankin, 35 for her opponents. Mrs. Mankin won by 770 votes...
...globe, voters registered unmarked papers to approve the official list, marked papers to disapprove. Only if half the electors scratched a candidate's name from the ballot paper could the Communist ticket lose. It did not lose. Stalin himself got a 100% vote in his own Moscow precinct...