Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Party Dilemmas. The Radical Socialists want to return to the two-ballot voting used in the Third Republic. Under this system, if no candidate got an absolute majority on the first ballot, a runoff election was held a week later, in which any combination of parties could elect a single candidate. A flexible center party, the Radicals hope to gain a lot by being able to make deals to their right & left...
Last week the harried, ailing Premier told the Deputies he was willing to accept a single-ballot vote, a runoff election system or even a combination of proportional representation and a majority vote. He warned that proportional representation had bred the self-destructive coalitions of Germany's Weimar Republic. "This lack of power," he rapped, "provoked a crystallization of opinion into two irreducible blocs . . . leaving no result of the whole experiment except that one party was in the government and all the others were in prison . . . We don't want to see that happen here...
Matter of Principle. In Ardmore, Okla., a recount of votes in a state runoff election turned up the ballot of a Carter County voter who, instead of marking an "x" beside one of the candidates' names, had written "phooey" beside both...
...Vigorous, broad-grinned Mike Monroney, 48, a Congressman for twelve years, retired Oklahoma's inept old (73) Elmer Thomas from the Senate in a runoff campaign for the Democratic senatorial nomination (TIME, July 17), seemed likely to win in November. His Republican opponent: the Rev. W. H. (Bill) Alexander, a 35-year-old Oklahoma City minister...
...race, which was run off in several heats. Both Gigli and Valentini won their trial heats, though the pro-Communist charioteer was booed when he zigzagged to block all attempts at passing. The third trial heat was won by a sporting newspaper, Corriere dello Sport. In the final runoff, L'Unitá's Valentini minded his charioteer's manners-and came in third. Winner of the 150,000-lire ($240) prize: Gigli and La Liberta...