Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faculty vote yesterday officially ditched the probation penalty for students who don't pass the language requirement by the end of their fifth term...
...Faculty decision does not mean that the language requirement has been lifted. The vote simply removes the penalty of probation for failure to meet it. Since the requirement must be met in order to graduate, Dean Bender explained yesterday "it is still desirable for students to meet the requirements as early as possible...
...simply hadn't known how to vote. Pulling his ballot out of its envelope, he noticed it was just as he left it seven days ago. The names were still as empty as the circles beside them were bare. Most of the country had pencilled an X in the circle under President; Vag took out his pen and entered the letters V A G in the ring. He could vote for himself any time and best of all, he didn't need a stamp...
...hundred-sixty-six votes are needed for election. If no candidate gets this, the election will go to the newly elected House of Representatives, unless the Thurmond electors should switch their allegiance. The House would then choose among Truman, Dewey, and Thurmond, with the states voting as a unit and casting one vote apiece...
...outcome of the presidential race was doubtful throughout the evening. The Wallace vote, though only two and one half percent of the total cast, prevented Truman from running away with the election. At 3:37 a. m., the Wallace vote appeared likely to affect the result in several states...