Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening guns were any indication, it was going to be a bitter campaign, with angry charges flying from all sides -though the people, waiting to cast their umpire's vote, had apparently already made up their minds...
Even before the final returns were in, Hummon seemed headed for almost as resounding a victory as Ol' Gene had ever managed. He had topped Thompson in the popular vote by 354,000 to 309,000, and piled up a landslide lead of 312 to 98 under Georgia's county unit system (roughly similar to the national electoral college). Governor Thompson promptly agreed to install Hummon in the Governor's Mansion as soon as the formality of the November general election was over; there was no point in waiting until Inauguration Day in January. Said Thompson...
...home town of Valdosta, Klansmen hoisted a fiery cross after his election-eve speech. In Bulloch County, Klansmen deposited a coffin on the doorstep of one Negro. In the piney woods area of Montgomery County, a 28-year-old Negro named Isaiah Nixon asked if he could vote. He was warned not to, the sheriff said, but voted anyhow. That night two men appeared at his house, shot him dead in front of his wife and six children...
...place, Louisiana's Democratic Central Committee put the J. Strom. Thurmond-Fielding Wright Dixiecrat ticket and committed the state's ten Democratic electors to it. Unless the action is overthrown in the courts, a Louisiana voter who wants to vote for Harry Truman in November will have to write in the names of ten new Truman electors...
...States' Righters crowed; Louisiana was the fourth state in which the regular Democratic organization had walked out on Harry Truman. The others: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina. There was no longer any question that the Dixiecrats were capable of cutting deeply into Candidate Truman's electoral vote in the once-solid South. The rebels already counted 45 of Dixie's 148 electoral votes in their bag. After "Hummon" Talmadge's victory last week (see Georgia), they were also expecting Georgia...