Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Arkansas legislative monstrosity has at last expired. I shall pray devoutly that a blessing may come from the travesty of justice. That the eyes of the people may be opened and that so help us God we will exercise more wisely the God-given right of the ballot. The cessation of unprincipled work of the legislature marks the greatest day for Arkansas since the Armistice...
...knew, last week, exactly on what day or in what week or even during which month the British General Parliamentary Election would be held. As leader of the party in power (Conservative), placid Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin could and would send all Great Britain scrambling to the ballot box at whatever time his advisers deemed least favorable to the rival parties (Laborite & Liberal). He might spring a "surprise election" in early May, or dawdle along until late June. So long as docile Britons are called to cast their ballots within the legal period of five years after the present House...
...open season for collegiate introspection is in full swing. Not long ago New Haven students came out of the fog and found just where they stood on vital questions of the day. Now Dartmouth's seniors have resorted to the ballot to discover what the dope on this college business really is. There must be a lot of satisfaction in knowing for certain what is what. No excuse then for not being in the mode. Besides, such decisions lend a feeling of solidarity and make for college spirit...
Soon Britons will ballot in their General Parliamentary Election the ultimate question of which is: "Who will head 'the next administration as Prime Minister?" Though ballots will not be cast for two or three months yet-depending on the date when His Majesty declares the present Parliament dissolved-there were last week important election developments...
...about the "race problem." True, the Negroes of Cape Colony vote for him, but they are the only blacks in all South Africa who are enfranchised; and in all the other provinces General Smuts draws his support from whites who are fanatically opposed to giving their blackamoor neighbors the ballot...