Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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California. Registration in the office of a county or city clerk of precinct board may be made up to and including...
Florida. Registration is permanent so long as the voter votes. New names will be received by county and precinct supervisors until...
...York. Outside of New York City, persons who registered and voted in the last general election (1924) need not reregister. In New York City, voters must re-register for every general election. Precinct boards sit every Saturday, or on days posted locally, until two weeks before election...
...shoe-string." The decisive vote is the "floating" vote which can be polled only by distributing, or allowing to be distributed, money for the precinct organizers. The money does not actually "buy votes." It is paid to venal "runners" or "workers" on Election Day to fetch their relatives to vote. Estimating that there are 150,000 precincts in the U. S., each averaging 400 voters of whom perhaps two-thirds vote, Mr. Kent reckons that that party wins which has the money to employ ten "runners" per precinct at $5 or $10 for the day. Each "runner" fetches about...
...matter how diligent and honest the national moneymen may be, only part of the total actually spent will be reported to Congress. Vast wads of local money, to be spent not literally in buying votes but in paying precinct "workers" to round up their families and friends, pass from , unnamed donors to taciturn precinct bosses. This money is meant, usually, to ensure the election of local candidates. The national candidates benefit simultaneously but the money does not show on their books...