Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...will be absent from his home on the day of election, may, vote by mail. However, it is required that each voter who expects to be absent shall procure from the Secretary of his State a certain specific form on which to make application for an "absentee voter" ballot. The Harding-Coolidge Club of Harvard has arranged to have a number of these applications sent to them at once and will soon have them on hand at their office in the CRIMSON building, where the voters of the University may sign them. Then as soon as the "absentee voter" ballots...
...person by October 13 in all cities including Boston, and in all towns by Saturday, October 20. 3. Absentee voters: Any voter absent on election day who applies in advance to the Secretary of the Commonwealth or to any city or town clerk for application blank for a ballot and sends it within time to reach voting place before it closes, can vote by mail...
...much of a factor they were. It is not certain, indeed, that anyone knows even now, but some statistics gathered by Harvard would seem to throw significant light on the problem. The university has made a careful compilation of the number of men who voted in the last postal ballot for overseers and gone to some trouble to determine exactly what percentage of graduates in each state had enough interest in their college to return their ballots. In general, two conclusions seemed to be reached. The first is that the East does not have any particular advantage over the West...
...objects of its attention. It supplies a unique example of a body of soldiers whose chief interest lies in the maintenance of the civic as opposed to the martial idea. The soldiership which it exemplifies is the citizen soldiership, which stands for the patriotism of the school and the ballot box as well as the patriotism of the tented field...
...candidates, chosen by postal ballot among the alumni from the 20 men first nominated will be voted upon, and the five receiving the highest totals will become Overseers for the term of six years to fill the places of those...