Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Committee shows the same astounding mishandling. According to the explicit instructions on the ballots and the notices accompanying the photographs of the nominees, members of the class were to pick five men for the Album Committee by preference. When the results were made known it was clear that the votes had been counted by straight numerical tabulation and each figure was marked as an equal vote. When this was pointed out to the officers in charge, the answer was that the announcement on the ballot was a mistake and that it had been decided yesterday to count them numerically...
Obviously, in a close election, as this was, a man receiving a large number of fifth choices would poll a poorer vote than if each fifth vote received as much consideration as a first choice. It is also plain that a candidate receiving numerous second and third votes would be elected rather than a nominee polling a few first and a numerous number of last choices. When the Senior Class is under the apprehension that it is balloting under the preferential system, it may use, if it wishes, the first choice for candidates whom it believes to be weak, with...
From 9 to 1 o'clock today Seniors will have their last chance of voting for class officers. Ballot boxes are situated in Harvard Hall, Server Hall, and in the left entry of Pierce Hall. Seniors will also be asked to vote on the question: "Do you favor class insurance as a means of raising the class fund...
...more than one occasion we have approached Mr. John I. McFarland of Calgary . . . but on each occasion he has declined the offer. He has now recognized the gravity of the situation, however, and has accepted the appointment offered him by unanimous vote of the central board...
...been called 47 different varieties of undesirable persons. Now let's have a standing vote-have I or have I not any sex appeal?" - Whopper-Teller Joan Lowell (Cradle of the Deep) before the St. Louis Rotary Club...