Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next step of the count, the 1250 surplus Sullivan votes will be redistributed by taking every third Sullivan vote from the envelopes in which they are kept, by precinct, after the first count, Each of the 1250 votes is then put into the pile of whatever candidate is marked "number two" on the ballot...
...polls close, the ballots are locked up, and then brought next morning to the school auditorium. There, just before 8 a.m. the 100-odd election clerks begin a first, "unofficial" count of the "number one" votes for each city council candidate. The City has eleven wards, each with five precincts-so there are eleven little cubicles on one side of the auditorium, to allow the first precinct of each ward to be counted simultaneously...
...counters go about their work, candidates and their count-watchers peer in on them-sometimes intently, sometimes lackadaisically-from over the iron pipe railing which separates the counters from everybody else. Watching the ballots pile up and listening for announcements of precinct results, the candidates continually reappraise their situation. Witness Harvard Ed School student Francis X. Haves, during the first count of ballots for him and the other School Committee candidates...
After eight years and three elections, White has established his own political system. He has a vast network of friendly power brokers, governmental aides, trend watchers, reporters, poll takers and precinct vigilantes. This book is almost overwhelmed by his efforts to preserve-and not to offend-this intricate organization. Nelson Rockefeller is elevated to near sainthood before he is politically buried. Even Lyndon Johnson, sulking back on the ranch-the man who White points out was most responsible for Viet Nam, fragmented his party, nearly destroyed the nation's trust in its government-gets his requiem. "Few men have...
...Georgia, the governor and the state chairman pick convention delegates themselves. In Illinois, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley decides who shall be "elected" and how they shall vote. In other states, precinct caucuses are held without public notice. In Copiah, Miss., a fictitious name was placed on the delegate list...