Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Conscripts' Vote...
...knows what is ahead? And who knows how potent and effective might be the balance-of-power vote of some half-million conscripts even in a peacetime army, with no right to vote...
...Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri got the Burke-Wadsworth Bill amended to provide that conscripts may vote "if entitled to by State laws." But under the Constitution the States determine the qualifications of voters. There are 48 different State laws on the subject, and six States-Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania-make no provision for absentee voting. The Army's Judge Advocate General says that in 29 States soldiers and sailors are barred from the polls...
...vote: for Republican Brewster 59%; for Democrat Brann 41%; for Republican Sewall 64% ; for Democrat Redman...
...Mexico. Then, in ringing defiance, he gave his followers their cue: "The people of Mexico are sick of racketeer government-sick to the point of revolt. . . . At the proper time I will return to Mexico and claim the high office to which I am entitled by an overwhelming vote of the people...