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INDIANA: There is NO absentee registration in this state. Absent voters must apply to the clerk of the county of residence for an absentee ballot on a form furnished by the clerk. This form must be signed and sworn to by two resident voters of the absentee's precinct. All ballots must be notarized and returned before the polls close on election day. Veterans who have voted previously need not re-register...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Absentee Voting Rules | 10/1/1948 | See Source »

...Bernhard Levander, chairman of the Minnesota Republican Central Committee, another longtime Stassen man. Young (32) and razor-sharp, he is contact man and director at the ward and precinct level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Not Just Amateurs | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Last week, in Rushville, Ind., where he runs the family farms, he announced that he would be a candidate for the relatively humble job of state legislator from Rush and Henry Counties. Before making his announcement, he conferred with precinct committeemen, something his father hardly ever bothered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unlike Son | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Election returns were coming in. Roberts spotted the trend in a precinct report from the onetime "Bloody First" Ward, a Pendergast stronghold. "That's a barbershop on North Main," he said. "They used to vote about 385 to 6 for the machine. Look what they got - only two to one." It was soon clear that the election was in the bag for the Citizens Association, a loose fusion of anti-Pendergast Democrats, yeasty Republicans and independents, held together by the Star's backing. What was left of Old Tom's once mighty machine, now run with little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: K. C.'s Sun | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Reminders of the Past. Roy Roberts left the Star building before midnight, piled himself into the front seat of his 1946 Pontiac. Harvey Anderson, his Negro chauffeur-handyman, was waiting to pick him up. Roberts, who has a nickname for everybody, calls Anderson "the Senator" because he is a precinct-worker for the good deeders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: K. C.'s Sun | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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