Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democratic candidate Howell held 8,000-vote lead and claimed victory over Republican Clifford Case early this morning, but Republicans talked of demanding a recount...
...Family. In Ripley, Tenn., after running for mayor and getting only 57 out of 1,163 votes cast, Dr. J. Louie Freeman announced that he would contest the election, demand a recount: "I have more than 57 relatives . . . who I know voted...
...election that it was "impossible to distinguish the free and honest vote." Among the findings: flagrant violations of the constitutional rights of more than 55,000 voters, illegal and premature destruction of 13,000 ballots, fraudulent alteration of 17,000 ballots, invalidation of 3,300 votes in the recount, complete disregard of voter-assistance laws, and general misconduct at the polls. Concluded the two Republicans on the subcommittee: "The senatorial election did not express the free will of the people of New Mexico...
...recount cut in the defense budget, Alsop said, recognized the fact that the military cannot have an unlimited draw on the nation's finances and manpower. However, where the defense budget falls seriously short, he continued, is in its lack of support for such projects as the continental defense system and the long range guided missiles program...
...room was tense as the vote was taken. Only after a recount was the Wilson motion voted down by a hairbreadth: 109-111. The revolt, biggest since the war against the Labor leadership, was not confined to Bevanites. It included many victims of two costly world wars, who deeply distrusted putting guns into the hands of Germans; many who worried that the rearmed Germans might attempt to reunite with East Germany by force and set off another war; some who argued (like Bevan) that the West had gone to Berlin unwilling to bargain away the twelve West German divisions...