Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make the statement that "seven jurors favored setting the will aside. Five opposed." This is not true. The first ballot was nine to three in favor of setting the will aside, and it was never less than this majority...
Every candidate was officially chosen for the ballot, and as there was no way of registering opposition except by crossing out all the names, results were gratifying. In Western Ukraine, 92.83% of the electorate took part, and 90.93% voted for the official panel of 1,484 men, 239 women; in White Russia 96.71%, voted, 90.67% in favor of 804 men, 123 women. One candidate had been in prison for 19 years...
...business was to get his Plan before the people, to be voted on November 7 as an amendment to the State Constitution. To put it on the ballot, he needed 10% of the voters in the State. He got them: 241,288 valid signatures. By the same process he added a second proposed amendment which would relax the present law so that the process of amending the constitution would not be so laborious in the future...
...this issue the Crown Prince firmly took the stand he has maintained all his life, an enlightened attitude of calm neutrality (he has been 81 years a neutral) in which the prestige of the Crown was thrown on the side of letting the Norwegian people choose by peaceful ballot to go their...
...work; manager of the Mid-Ocean Club, who owned a car for use within the Club's 200-acre estate, dashed happily back & forth with dispatches between St. George and Hamilton, the capital. With the island under decree law, women suffragists revived their old agitation for the ballot and were pleased and surprised when one of Governor General Denis Kirwan Bernard's first decrees gave it to them...