Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Addressing a Saturday night rally of campaign workers, the candidate could not resist a word of praise for his daughter. "Valerie," he said, "is my best precinct worker." Charles Harting Percy was not simply indulging his paternal pride. In his hard-hitting campaign to unseat Illinois' three-term Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, 74, comely, honey-haired Valerie Percy, 21, a June graduate of Cornell, proved one of Chuck Percy's doughtiest aides. With sunny enthusiasm that made the task seem effortless, she recruited and coordinated hundreds of youthful Percy-for-Senator volunteers, helped set up 22 campaign centers...
...area are gradually rising as the housing market grows tighter. And it is political: the vote stock of the area's local politician, Walter J. Sullivan, is diminishing steadily. Eight years ago, when Sullivan first ran for the City Council, he received more than 550 votes from his home precinct. His total has now declined to under 350. Sullivan is not lazy, and it is not inattention that accounts for the difference. As one colleague notes, "he's better organized, but the votes have simply moved away...
...Contra Costa County, Calif., also began using the Coleman system in November 1964. Despite some bugs and errors, it reduced the number of precincts from 1,164 to 720, election personnel from 7,384 to 2,880, the election payroll from $127,797 to $73,870, and the man-hours required to tabulate the vote from 52,573 to 5,781-even while the total vote rose by more than 15% over the last previous election. >Fulton County (Atlanta), Ga., is one of several that has used a nifty little number called the IBM Votomatic. Invented by Dr. Joseph...
...week's end, at Stokes's behest, the Cleveland Board of Elections agreed to delay certification of Locher's re-election pending an examination of precinct tally sheets and poll books. After that, Stokes has the right to demand a recount. Miffed, Locher said he would go ahead with the swearing-in ceremony this week in spite of the board's ruling...
...Roanoke lawyer. Holton campaigned energetically against the poll tax, on which Godwin refused to commit himself, and promised to recruit Negroes for appointment to high office. But the Negro voters broke with their tradition of supporting G.O.P. candidates in state elections. Richmond's almost solidly Negro First Precinct reflected the shift: though it went 10 to 1 for the Republican gubernatorial candidate in 1961, last week it supported Democrat Godwin...