POLI 2056 Chapter : Election Rules In Louisiana
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There were racial voting primaries (blacks are excited to have: people who had never voted republican started supporting first black mayor), republicans were excited to have a republican as mayor. Voting for epton because washington was black (hard to think of different reason) xi. Washington won and was easily reelected and died during his. The rules are put there for a very intentional reasons xiii. In the south we used a plurality system, a lot of blacks would be getting primary nominations and would be winning xiv. The plurality system was used a lot more out the south than in the south xv. We use the majority system: in the same election, there would have been a runoff between doley& washington and mayor would have been different xvi. Bennett johnston became incredibly close to winning: edwards did not like the fact that he had to spend so much money and the republican did not have to pay as much xi.
