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Word: scrutin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...System. This week French voters will thankfully resume the simple system of balloting which sufficed them before the War. In the 1924 election they were mystified by the so-called scrutin de liste, a well meant but inexplicable procedure which was supposed to ensure by mathematical proportioning a greater representation of minority groups in Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Election Looms | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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