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...possesses several equally good methods of attack any successful procedure needs to determine the facts concerning the election and recount, Concerning the election, Playfair and Gibbs have not yet explained the absence of officials at polling places at specified times, the absence of a place for signature on the ballots, the unorthodox ballot boxes, and the unusual expense involved in their arrangements. Concerning the recount, no adequate explanation has yet been offered of the reasons for the recount, the failure to notify or obtain authorization from the Council, and the final unfortunate release of the results to the Transcript without...
Nine of the preferential ballots for Bowditch rated 3-2-1, were rejected because they were unsigned. This reduced his lead of 16 by 20 votes so that Gundlach won by the close margin of four votes. Although there was no place on the ballot on which to affix one's signature, announcement was made through the CRIMSON and at the polls that a signature was necessary...
...Representative Rankin renounced his aspirations for the Speakership. Later in the day Representative Rayburn did the same: "There are no alibis. Under the circumstances, I cannot be elected." And next morning Representative Bankhead dropped out of the contest. Assured of election to the highest House post on the first ballot next month, Democrat Byrns began to expand, to think of himself as already belonging to the immortal company of great Speakers. To an old acquaintance who called him "Mr. Byrns," he said, "Call me Joe? or Uncle Joe. I don't like that 'Mister'." Washington chuckled, seeing only the remotest...
...restricting cotton production by means of a prohibitive ginning tax. Instead the vote was 9-to-1 in favor of this form of compulsory crop limitation. The "election" was unique in that to polling places throughout the South went thousands upon thousands of Negroes who had never cast a ballot before in their lives...
...ballots which were cast yesterday in the Senior Class Elections and were not signed will automatically be thrown out when the votes are counted. Due to the fact that there was not any definite place on the ballots for a signature, there were 22 left unsigned. In order that those who did not put their signatures on their ballots may vote again today, there will be a ballot box in Sever Hall from 10 to 12 o'clock...