Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale faculty ballot on the League of Nations Covenant yesterday resulted as follows: For ratification with mild reservations, 41; ratification with no reservations, 23; ratification with strong reservations, 11; ratification with full Lodge reservations, 4; for the Borah position, none...
...candidate for an office below that of Marshal may, with his consent, be nominated by petition for the office of Marshal. His name in such a case shall be automatically erased from the ballot for the office for which he was originally a candidate. In any case of doubt as to eligibility or procedure in petitioning, advice may be obtained from a member of the Nominating Committee who may be found at the CRIMSON Building at 7 o'clock in the evening throughout the week...
...straw ballot held in September, 83 per cent, of those voting favored the ratification of some form of the League of Nations Covenant. During the five remaining days before the assembling of the new Congress, the Administration and the Senators are trying to ascertain public opinion on this vital question, and the above strong majority has now a chance to make itself felt. Every man in the University will have an opportunity to sign a petition to be sent to President Wilson, Senator Lodge and Senator Hitchcock, urging the reopening of debate, and the ratification of a compromise, which other...
...Princetonian last Thursday. The vote stood 542 in favor of the League with reservations, as opposed to 297 for the League of Nations as it stands, and 120, opposed to it in any form. The total of 959 votes indicates the interest which was shown in the ballot...
...open to the same objection as the present scheme--the undergraduates would show no more interest in primaries than they do in elections. The class meetings, if properly advertised, would draw a large gathering, and there the name of anyone proposed and seconded would be put upon the convention ballot. Then, by direct election, it could be shown who were real candidates for the respective offices and who were merely vote-splitters. The four or five leading men for each position would be put on the class ballots for final election. Thus the double purpose would be served of inspiring...