Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Relatively few of the Post's readers are voters. Citizens of the District of Columbia have as every one knows, no representatives in Congress Last week, handbills and stickers littered Washington (population, 528,000) as always in presidential years: "Give Washington national representation," "Let Washington vote for President...
Tremendous registrations were the rule, however, even without parrots and dead men. The Associated Press reported a total registration of 43,084,257 for the whole U.S., about four-fifths of the eligible population. A vote of 37 millions was predicted, or an increase of eight millions over the votes cast...
...undergraduate vote was, Hoover 239, Smith 102, whereas the Faculty proved more evenly divided with 114 for Hover and 99 for Smith. Last spring when both eligible and ineligible voters took part, the Republican ballots tripled those of the Democrats...
Accordingly, in order to keep the vote from being practically unanimous, for the choice of Joe Forecast in those Open Spaces where his word is law, I will withhold my prediction until Tuesday morning. I aim only to predict, not to influence public opinion. Not that I couldn't influence it, if I chose, and occasionally have...
Doctor D. L. Marsh, president of Boston University presides at the meeting, and the winner of the debate will be decided by ballot vote of the audience...