Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Galleries. Brewster was interested in Tydings' comment on "this measure being of a bastard parentage." He thought it was rather strong language, "particularly as the origin of the committee was in the gentleman who is now President of the United States." He recalled that 13 Democrats had voted against the reorganization act-"with the spirit of which they are now so much concerned"-and 17 were not interested enough to show up for the vote. On the other hand, he recalled, 23 Republicans had voted for the measure...
...When Old Gene died, Hummon and an ex-Georgia legislator named Roy V. Harris set out to parlay this handful of paper into the governorship. They put their faith in a line in the constitution which read: "If no person shall have [a] majority (of the total votes cast) then from the two persons having the highest number of votes . . . the General Assembly shall immediately elect a governor." Their reasoning: if Old Gene was dead, he couldn't be a person, and if he wasn't a person he couldn't have a majority vote, even...
...cattle-minded Oklahoma, his bulging ranch-office trophy room, crammed with the winnings of his purebred Hereford show stock, was a sure vote-catcher. So was his snap-brimmed, cream-colored hat -the badge of the western cattleman...
...schoolhouse at Lomianki, a village twelve miles from Warsaw, the desks had been pushed to the wall to make a waiting room for the peasants who had come to vote for the first time since 1935. Each was handed a ballot marked "3" (the number of the Communist-dominated Government bloc) by the election chairman. When asked if he had ballots for all parties, the chairman apologized, saying that he had just run out of "5," in that district the number of Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's opposition Polish Peasant Party. He added that 70% of the people had voted openly...
...Manifest & Open." In the Warsaw suburb of Praga, another election chairman told reporters, while the ballot box was still sealed, that 75% of the votes favored the Government bloc. He was not guessing; a neat variation on the secret ballot is to cast a vote "manifestly and openly" within clear sight of everyone at the polls. The P.P.R. (Communists) had formed its zealous members into trojki (trios) who had covered the country "inducing" voters to sign a pledge stating: "I commit myself to go to the elections and give my vote to the list of the [Government] bloc parties...