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Next morning Wisconsin voters went to the polls to ballot in their Presidential primaries. As simple as the Nazi ticket in Germany was the first choice offered. Those who voted in the Democratic primary were given the choice of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Those who voted in the Republican primary were given the choice of William E. Borah. Alternatives there were none, but that was not a matter of great importance, for this Presidential preference vote was really no more than a popularity rating. The real test was on delegates to the two national conventions. On the Democratic ticket...
...question was whether 300,000 votes, or any majority from downstate, could match the Chicago machine's efficient vote-making equipment. Dispassionate observers believed that the machine could count 300,000 votes by the "endless chain system'" alone. This device requires the theft of only one blank ballot by each precinct captain and absolutely insures that all votes bought are delivered. The blank ballot is marked and given to a hired voter who puts it in his pocket, takes it into the polling place, receiving another blank as he enters. In the booth he puts the new blank...
Rolf Kaltenborn '37 has been elected President of Phillips Brooks House for 1936-37 as the result of a mail ballot counted during the vacation. At the same time William H. Schmidt '37 was named vice-president, while John B. Bowditch '37 becomes secretary-treasurer...
...ends at 6 in the evening. No German Comrade dare be absent, and I urge all voters most strongly to vote during the morning hours. By 1 o'clock in the afternoon the election must be over. During the afternoon I will have all laggards dragged to the ballot box. None shall escape us. Klein-Machnow is surrounded and shut...
Much as he would like the Democratic Presidential nomination for himself, much as he dislikes the New Deal, Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge has no stomach as yet for a tilt with Franklin Roosevelt at Georgia's ballot boxes. Dismayed, therefore, was "Gene" Talmadge fortnight ago when Seminole County Democrats took matters in their own hands, held a Presidential preference primary, plumped 5-to-1 for Roosevelt. Last week Harris County followed suit 27-to-1. Belatedly, Governor Talmadge got Barrow County to postpone its primary while the Talmadge-dominated Democratic State Committee tried to figure some...