Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Papers demanding a recount on the Plan E referendum will be filed today by the Committee for Plan E, it was learned exclusively last night...
...delegate to the Democratic State Convention, barred by police rules from running for office, he campaigned vigorously ("Be wary of Leary") to get himself defeated (TIME, Sept. 26). When the returns showed him elected last week by 59 votes over his nearest opponent, he indignantly demanded a recount...
...Baltimore and Attorney General Herbert R. O'Conor. So close were totals of county delegates instructed to vote for them at the State nominating convention Sept. 28 that last week after every last ballot had been counted the final decision lay in the result of an Allegheny County recount and the "third-choice" vote of Prince George's County...
Immediately Leary issued a statement berating the voters for electing him. Then he demanded a recount "to cause trouble and annoyance and teach people not to vote for him ever again...
...leading politicians in the little village of Ecorse just outside Detroit are William W. Voisine and WT. Newton Hawkins. William Voisine was President of the Village from 1933 to 1936. In the 1936 election he was re-elected by one vote. Newton Hawkins asked for a recount, in which William Voisine's margin was increased to ten. Newton Hawkins took it to the Michigan Supreme Court. Last month the Supreme Court Justices found the election a draw, ordered the two politicians to decide the issue by lot. Last week they pulled slips out of a hat. Newton Hawkins...