Word: voting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...communication in Wednesday's CRIMSON urging that students of the University petition the legislature to permit them to vote for President in Massachusetts, if qualified elsewhere, should not pass without an obvious criticism. This matter of disqualification for voting by absence from one's normal voting place is a very serious matter, for not only students, but hundreds of thousands of men who earn their living by travelling, lose a vote enlightened by wider observation of conditions than is possible to their stay-at-home neighbors. But the solution does not lie in permitting them to vote wherever they...
...result of a non-partisan poll of Princeton alumni taken by a committee of graduates from that university under the auspices of the Hughes National College League show 2,098 votes for Hughes and 651 for Wilson. The poll reveals that 492 alumni who voted for Wilson in 1912 are going to vote for Hughes this year; whereas 57 is the total Taft and Roosevelt vote which is going to Wilson. Equally significant is the fact that 360 men who voted for Roosevelt in 1912 are going to vote for Hughes and only 37 for Wilson. Over 90 per cent...
...Hughes, 492 voted for Wilson in 1912, 360 for Roosevelt, 890 for Taft and 356 did not vote. Of the 651 ballots cast for Wilson, 473 were by men who voted for him in the last election, 37 by men who voted for Roosevelt, 20 by men who voted for Taft and 171 by men who did not vote...
...vote as to the result of the discussion was taken...
...occasion of some unpleasant litigation. He makes the excellent point that the choice of president is of equal concern to citizens of every state, and that it is obviously unreasonable to exclude intelligent voters because of an unavoidable change of residence. A few states allow the "post card vote" for the benefit of non-resident citizens. Either this system should be made universal or the Massachusetts legislature should allow eligible college voters to cast their ballots here. The first remedy is out of the question, but the second could probably be accomplished by means of energetic and carefully planned action...