Word: votes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...election of Marshals was conducted under the following rules: "Every voter shall vote for three candidates for Marshals, indicating his preference for First Marshal. Of the three elected, that candidate receiving the highest number of votes for First Marshal shall be declared First Marshal; of the other two elected, that one whose total vote is higher shall be Second Marshal, and the other one Third Marshal...
...ballots were improperly marked, and were therefore disqualified. Where the votes were close, the ballots were recounted in order to avoid any possible mistakes. In the case of Williams and Blanchard, with a difference of one vote; nine recounts were taken to make sure of the result...
...petition signed by twenty-five members of the Sheffield Student Council, appeared in the Yale News, which is the regular way of setting the legislative machinery in motion in regard to athletic association business. A mass meeting was set for Wednesday night when the whole student body would vote on the question, a two-thirds majority being necessary to make it effective. This was done tonight when the assembly unanimously expressed its approval of the measure...
...These qualifications should be the basis of the elections today, and every Senior should vote in order that the real preferences of the class may be recorded...
...ratified by a two-thirds vote of the three upper classes, the new constitution will go into effect immediately...