Word: voter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election itself will be by proportional representation. Voters will mark their ballots to indicate the order of their preference of the candidates. When the tabulation has given a candidate enough first place votes for election or to clearly eliminate him, further ballots in his favor will be thrown to the voter's second choice and, when the occasion demands, third and fourth down the line...
Some Democrats believed that the best course was a passive one-that if the party punted and prayed for two years the Republican Congress might become a target for the voter's ill will. But how could Henry Wallace be kept quiet? And what was to be done with Harry Truman at the end of the two years...
Primary argument of the Worcester debaters was their contention that the present two-party system has broken down and no longer affords the liberal voter any real choice in the elections. A labor party would, they maintained, be the only agency that could effect the passage of progressive legislation...
...shortage of pens for registering voters had threatened to delay the balloting. Authorities beat the illiteracy problem by printing a different colored ticket for each of the 15 competing parties. The voter thus had merely to select his favorite color from the fistful of slips handed him, and seal the card in an envelope as he stood in the secret polling booth...
...each voter left the polls he dipped the little finger of his right hand into a green fluid. That was to keep him from voting twice. The creation of one Dr. Roberto Finol of Maracaibo, the green dye was supposed to be proof against soap, acid or anything for at least a couple of days. Venezuelans read the inscription on the bottle-". . . to guarantee universal suffrage"-and submitted willingly...