Counting the Ballots at NAJAC
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Caption: 23. After the balloting, the ballot count. The election committee, and Honorary delegate watchers, worked straight through until all National and Regional tallies were added, checked and announced. Exact accuracy was their first consideration. In this picture, from left to right, are Carlyle Kavadas, team one consisting of counselor Tom Maloney, Ann Nickerson of Fort Wayne, and counselor Ken Pottenger. Ken read the ballot, Tom made the tally and Ann watched for errors. Continuing with team two, which operated the same way, we find Don Smith reading a ballot, Alex Seith making the tally, checked by Marie Bromer of Fort Wayne. Each team tallied the same ballots independently, and results had to check before they were recorded at right. Final returns for President were: Roger Alvey - Bridgeport - 318, Allan Moenaert - Detroit - 287, George Sweet - San Francisco - 284, Bob Rock - St. Louis - 259, John Conroy - Chicago - 157, Bill Loftus - Dayton - 101, Mike Schmitt - St. Paul - 61. Since the Conference had voted to accept a winner by plurality, Roger Alvey was announced as President. Had the provisions of a preferential ballot been applied, the 61 ballots for the low man would have been repolled as to their second choices, and so on, eliminating successive low men and repolling their ballots for second choice until some one candidate emerged as the choice of a clear majority of all the voters. Under the circumstances it must remain a mystery as to who that person would be. As it was, not too much time went by before Roger learned the good news, and the election committee was saved a great deal of work. |
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| Origin: | 1953 |
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http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/JA/id/3540 |
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Junior Achievement |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
Copyright Junior Achievement USA |
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Junior Achievement Annual National Junior Achievers Conference (10th : 1953 : Oxford, Oh.) Kavadas, Carlyle Maloney, Tom Nickerson, Ann Pottenger, Ken Smith, Don Seith, Alex Bromer, Marie |
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