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Members of the University will be given a chance to express their political convictions today when the quadrennial CRIMSON presidential poll takes place. Ballot boxes will be placed in each of the seven Houses, in the Baker Library, in Sever, Langdell, and Pierce Halls, and in the Union. A schedule of the times at which the voting will take place in the various polling places, appears below...
...Landon and Democrat Harry Woodring, who is trying to succeed himself. Both have devoted considerable effort to chocking what appears to be a steadily oncoming Brinkley steamroller. Two years ago Governor Woodring squeezed into office with a majority of 319 votes. John Brinkley, his name not on the ballot, polled close to the leaders with 188,000 votes...
This is the first CRIMSON poll of any sort to be conducted primarily through the Houses instead of at the usual balloting places in Sever and Harvard Halls. Ballot boxes will be placed in all of the Houses during the luncheon and dinner hours next Thursday, and a box will be available at some additional place for students not resident in the Houses. Polls will be provided in the Union for Freshmen, in Baker Library for the Business School, and in Austin or Langdell Hall for the Law School...
Four Candidates on Ballot...
...names of four candidates will appear on the ballot: Herbert Hoover, Republican; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat; Norman Thomas, Socialist; and William Z. Foster, Communist. The names of the other three candidates will not appear but a space will be left where those or any other names may be written in. Voters will also be asked to specify what party they favored in the last election, in order to determine the amount of shifting which has taken place. Signatures will be required but will be kept strictly confidential and the ballots will be destroyed as soon as they are counted...