Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Controversy also flared over the assembly elections, marred by delays in some Houses and disputes in others. Several Mather House delegates contested the results of the House's elections, charging that the Mather House Committee used an unconstitutional "preferential" balloting system similar to the system used in Cambridge City Council elections. Several candidates in Currier House claimed that other candidates were loitering near the ballot boxes soliciting votes. Lowell House's ballots were misprinted, and the Kirkland House elections were delayed more than a week to allow time for more nominations...
...reason for the Bees' opposition stemmed from the state practice of allowing Texans of one party to cross over to vote in the other's primary. But voters cannot split their ballot: they have to go all Republican or all Democrat. The Bees wanted one primary so that conservative Democrats who chose to vote for Republican Connally would not be able to vote for opponents of liberal Democrats in the state races. On the other hand, Hobby wanted two primaries so that the conservative Democrats would be free to vote for Connally in one, and for their favorites...
Despite the turnout of almost 1.9 million blacks, or an estimated 64% of those eligible to vote, there were reservations over how much pressure to cast ballots had been exerted by whites, especially in rural areas. There were also suspicions that under-18 youths had been al lowed to vote illegally in some places. Moreover, some of the districts where the bishop's United African National Council party had won most handsomely registered figures that approached, or were even higher than the 100% of voters who had been thought to live there, reflecting either ballot-stuffing or poor population...
...Monica enacted one of the stiffest control laws in the country and rolled all rents back to the levels of April 1978. Since November, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Davis and parts of Beverly Hills have voted for rent control. San Diego consumerists are agitating to get rent control on the ballot for a September election...
...have read every ballot in Mather House, and many of them have "Who cares? written by the question on parties," Bernstein said. "Everyone should be content to let this particular fight be fought at election time," he added...