Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time, seniors were permitted to vote for candidates of either sex. Voters received two ballots, one with eight male candidates and one with eight female candidates. On each ballot, the candidate with the most votes became a First Marhsl and the three runners-up became marshals...
...electoral system this year increased the number of votes cast on each ballot, Koivumaki said. He added that in the preliminary balloting, seniors cast 769 votes on the Radcliffe ballot and 805 on the Harvard ballot, compared with last year's figures...
...speaking commitment in Iowa, but he had some operatives on hand who were handing out double shots of whisky to assuage the delegates' feelings. There was even a watering hole for Al Haig, who did not make it either and whose name was not even on the ballot...
...Democrats meeting in Cincinnati in 1856 gave a polite bow to Pierce and put his name on the first ballot, but even then James Buchanan got more votes By the 17th ballot Franklin Pierce had drifted into oblivion and the nomination went to Buchanan, a Pennsylvania bachelor who turned out to be not much of an improvement. But he did start his presidency with a proper celebration at which were consumed 400 gallons of oysters, 60 saddles of mutton, 125 tongues, a cake four feet high and $3,000 worth of wine...
When the Diet finally reassembled last week, it faced a situation unprecedented in Japan's 33-year postwar parliamentary history: two candidates from the same party, Ohira and Fukuda, vying for the premiership. Elected on the second ballot by a 17-vote margin, Ohira owed his victory to the support of a conservative breakaway party, the New Liberal Club. The win did little to enhance Ohira's stature, either in the Diet or in his own party. Fumed one L.D.P. member: "At first, I didn't think he should resign, but later I decided he should...