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...three Houses where only five candidates are running, staffers at most of the voting tables said they were aware of few, if any, write-in candidates...
Since the closing of nominations Sunday, about seven write-in candidates have joined those officially on the ballot, bolstering the paucity of candidates which made three Houses' elections uncontested, according to Sesha A. Pratap '84. Pratap, former chairman of the council, is helping direct this year's election...
...once fabled local Democratic machine is hardly putting forth the type of effort that has kept city hall in party hands for half a century. Byrne endorsed Washington after her primary defeat, then decided to oppose him through a write-in bid, then decided not to. Few of the machine's 50 ward bosses have offered their nominal nominee much help, and last week Alderman Roman Pucinski became the eighth of them openly to endorse the Republican. He said he could not ask his present workers to support Washington, who has pledged to abolish the patronage power...
...lost. She pledged support to the victor. No, she changed her mind. She would run again as a write-in candidate. Well, no she would not. She withdrew. She would support...
...Byrne made it even less likely that the citizens of Chicago will miss her erratic leadership. Defeated in the Democratic primary on Feb. 22 by Congressman Harold Washington, the only black ever to win a major party's mayoral nomination in Chicago, Byrne had offered herself as a write-in candidate in the April 12 general election, obviously hoping to attract the votes of white Democrats. Astonishingly, she apparently did not see that her candidacy was likely to draw white votes away from Republican Candidate Bernard Epton and ensure the election of Washington. Last week, with key campaign aides...