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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quadrennially, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the U. S. people perform what they call "electing a President." That is the effect of their performance, but not the form. What they do formally is to elect an Electoral College, which casts the actual vote for a President and Vice President. This vote is cast on the second Monday in January. It is not counted and tabulated until the second Wednesday in February, more than three months after the result has passed into history...
...Constitution assigns to each State the same number of electors as the State has Congressmen. When electors were first chosen by popular vote, many a Legislature provided that people should vote for two electors at large-corresponding to their Senators-and one elector from their Congressional district, corresponding to their Representative. But as party politics developed, it was discovered that a State's importance in national politics was emphasized if all its electors could be won by one party or another. Thus came the final transformation and the practice that is universal today. In each State, each party names...
...shoe-string." The decisive vote is the "floating" vote which can be polled only by distributing, or allowing to be distributed, money for the precinct organizers. The money does not actually "buy votes." It is paid to venal "runners" or "workers" on Election Day to fetch their relatives to vote. Estimating that there are 150,000 precincts in the U. S., each averaging 400 voters of whom perhaps two-thirds vote, Mr. Kent reckons that that party wins which has the money to employ ten "runners" per precinct at $5 or $10 for the day. Each "runner" fetches about...
...York, a presidential straw vote was held in the first cabin of the Majestic. Results: Smith-374; Hoover...
...tribal leadership of the outlaw camp. All through the '90s, while Montana was becoming a state, the enemies sparred for position. Clark's great triumph came in 1899. With $431,000, his lieutenants bought him a seat in the U. S. Senate. Their slogan: "Every man who votes for Clark is to be paid, and the men who vote for him without being paid are fools." After he was elected, he poured $30,000 worth of champagne into Helena, the capital...