Word: voter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year, if a spirited voter registration drive produces a large turnout and if the reformers' assurances of a united and cooperative Convention slate hold true, their goal of a council majority may be realized...
...battery of tutors, and a summer-in-the-country boarding program to instill a taste for the good life, Paris was a fox in the hen house. It was days of sit-ins and Freedom Riders, when SNCC was still Salt and pepper, days of the first push for voter registration down in Darkest Alabama and if you were one of the chosen ones, one of the lucky knee-grow winners in the Great White Liberal Guilt Sweepstakes you could do no wrong. Of course, shooting a righteaous game of hoop...didn't hurt any either...
...those 20 votes could have proved decisive, since Democrat James Wheeler defeated Republican Louis Belcher by a margin of one (10,660 to 10,659). County Judge James Kelley thought he could establish the winner of the election simply by asking the 20 illegal voters how they cast their ballots. The first 15 called before him dutifully answered, but when Van Hattum appeared she tartly replied: "I have been told all my life that my vote was a private thing and that I'd never have to tell anybody how I voted." The judge then told her she would...
...friend but he is still the Senate's man. "We are under no obligation to rubber stamp anything the President sends up here," he told his fellows last week. Indeed, he has even refused to place on the Senate calendar a number of Carter proposals-including instant voter registration and the creation of a consumer protection agency-that he senses his colleagues do not want. Byrd has cautioned Carter against pressing for early adoption of the Panama Canal treaty, and he even publicly bawled out Vice President Walter Mondale for a minor breach of parliamentary courtesy while Mondale...
Verba received the Woodrow Wilson Award for "The Changing American Voter," a book showing how voters in the last 20 years have moved away from political parties to become more independent, he said...