Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although acknowledging that last week's vote of the College did not match their advance hopes, the Student Council last night elected to accept, with two dissenting votes, the student trend in favor of the new constitution and to proceed with formal ratification...
...premise that the undergraduate vote on the new constitution was actually held according to the rules of the present constitution, the Council interpreted the 85 to 90 percent yeas among those voting as grounds for polling its own membership and obtaining the two-thirds majority now required for any amendment...
...Council majority pointed to the fact that 60 percent of the resident population of the College had voted and that most of the residents favored adoption of the new document. They emphasized that only the poor turnout at Dudley Commuters center -- whose 47 voters nevertheless registered a unanimous "yes"--and the large numbers of unavailable non-residents kept the favorable proportions of the vote from appearing in expected numbers...
Significance of Vote Discussed...
...fervid days when he piled up a record of 16 revolutions without a single failure. "He knows my conditions," he snapped. General Chamorro's conditions are: 1) that his Conservatives help count the ballots; 2) that his partisans-barred from preliminary registration-be allowed to vote...