Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in eight sections and at eight separate polls. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes cast on a formal ballot he shall be declared elected...
...first ballot for every officer shall be informal. A motion to make this informal ballot formal will be out of order. After the second ballot, all but the four candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be dropped, and the candidate receiving the smallest number of votes shall be dropped after each successive ballot...
...secret ballot on the arguments of the question resulted in a vote of-affirmative, 72 ; negative...
...ballot on the argument of the principal disputants resulted in a vote of-affirmative, 36 ; negative, 132. That of the argument as a whole-affirmative, 25 ; negative...
...first ballot for every officer shall be informal. After the second ballot, all but the four candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be dropped, and the candidate receiving the smallest number of votes shall be dropped after each successive vote...