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...time blasting the "rump session" attended by "a pitiful minority of wild-eyed saboteurs." Chairman Evans is "a well-known enemy of this administration" and Vice Chairman McClellan "the greatest constitutional acrobat of all times," and both "might as well prepare for a battle royal, right down to the precinct level...
...Oklahoma history. In 1952 Bulloch was warned again, and the Mayes County prosecutor was killed during a gambling investigation on which they had worked together. After he reported buying absentee ballots simply by posing as a candidate. Oklahoma's National Guard was called out to guard every precinct in five counties in the primary election...
Hardly had the sun set on Election Day 1956 before Connecticut Republicans reached for their cordial glasses and Democrats for their indigestion pills. From precinct after precinct came the news that Dwight Eisenhower was rolling up a massive plurality; in the final result, the G.O.P. made perhaps its most impressive showing in little Connecticut, racking up 63.7% against 1952's 55.7%, with U.S. Senator Prescott Bush and most other state candidates sailing home on Ike's coattails. Last week the President hand-picked-and the National Committee elected-for Republican national chairman the man who is entitled...
...Gomulka's moves was his alliance with Roman Catholic Cardinal Wyszynski. Apparently convinced that many church freedoms won last October would be lost if Gomulka was rebuffed, the Roman Catholic Episcopate told Catholics that they had a duty to vote. Result: thousands of Poles rushed to the precinct stations to make sure their names were on the electoral rolls...
...when others went behind the curtain (a rare privilege in a Communist country) to mark their ballots as they pleased. However ("to avoid the kind of excitement that would lead to violence") and to be on the safe side, the government planned to make public total counts rather than precinct by precinct, and the result, said government officials, would not be issued until later in the week. As some Communists frankly admitted, this provided an opportunity for a Machiavellian manipulation of the result, in the event that the voters had not been Machiavellian enough to see the peculiar merit...