Word: voters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Photocopies of duplicate registration cards made out to a single voter showed how a good pro-government man could make not just one but two trips to the ballot box. Opposition voters could be dealt with in several ways. The manual suggested "dividing the opposition by buying off their leaders," and "arresting elements considered as pro-Communist." Then again, one could always "blackmail a person with a scar"-meaning a person with an unsavory background as a smuggler, say, or a habitue of brothels...
JUST after 9 one morning last week, a pair of registrars from the New York City Board of Elections were summoned to Gracie Mansion, the mayor's 18th century residence overlooking the East River. There John V. Lindsay and his wife Mary, both lifelong Republicans, filled in new voter registration forms, marked the circle for "Democratic Party" and signed their names...
...Voter Concern. Originally designed to persuade valued employees to stay with a company, delayed vesting has become a pitfall for those who do not. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, from 30% to 50% of the 30 million workers covered by private pension plans will never see a nickel in benefits. They will either change jobs -or die-before they become eligible for a pension, or the fund that manages their money will be unable to pay up. Each year, some 30,000 workers lose out on pensions simply because their employers go broke...
...white-collar workers alike. One concerned group, for instance, is the 125,000-member Council of Engineers and Scientists, whose membership has been hard hit by mass layoffs in the aerospace industry. This week, as vacationing Congressmen meet their constituents, pensions will undoubtedly register high among the topics of voter concern. New York Senator Jacob Javits reports that his mail on the subject runs second only to Viet...
...from money troubles. There is also the danger of the candidates exhausting themselves campaigning and cutting one another up in public to Nixon's ultimate profit. Such harsh realities undoubtedly aided the group in reaching an agreement to limit TV and radio spending to 5? per 1968 registered voter (Democrat and Republican) in each of the primary states, or a total of $2.8 million per candidate for all the 20-plus primaries looming ahead. How many of the Democratic hopefuls can raise that much remains to be seen...