Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NEWS ANALYSIS ballot. The number of votes needed for a candidate to be elected is determined by dividing the total number of votes cast by the number of candidates plus one, and then adding one to the quotient...
There is one other disadvantage to PR: it makes ballot-counting a complicated. time-consuming job-one which in Cambridge usually takes a week or more...
Radcliffe commencement organizers this week took the first step toward merging Harvard and Radcliffe commencement exercises. A referendum on the desirability of combining the traditionally separate ceremonies was included on an election ballot mailed to Radcliffe seniors to choose the senior class committee...
...there are no supplementary nominations, the list submitted by the Dean will be declared elected. If there are supplementary nominations, a special Faculty election will be held by mail ballot. Each voter will choose a list of eighteen from the Dean's nominees and the supplementary nominations. The nominees will be listed on the ballot under the three areas of the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities, and the four tenure and two non-tenure candidates in each area receiving the highest number of votes will be declared elected...
Because his Youth Participation Party did not make the ballot, George C. Whipple III is using his summer earnings to finance a write-in campaign. Hoping to prove that "not all the youth of America are out rioting." he has distributed red-and-white "Win with Whipple" buttons, nailed up posters, and handed out literature. He has also given speeches whenever possible...