Vote
At the presidential balloting, Roosevelt got a clear majority, 1086 votes, ahead of Harry F. Byrd with 89 votes and James A. Farley with one vote.
The first vice presidential ballot showed Truman with 319.5 votes and Wallace with 429.5 votes, 159.5 votes short of a majority, but on the second roll call Truman won with 1031 to 105.
Read more about this topic: Democratic Vice Presidential Nomination Of 1944
Famous quotes containing the word vote:
“I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votes as they go in. Now, the first time I vote I’ll see if the woman’s vote looks any different from the rest—if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don’t inside, it need not outside.”
—Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883)
“I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.”
—James A. Garfield (1831–1881)
“While I believe that with a fair election in the South, our electoral vote would reach two hundred, and that we should have a large popular majority, I am yet anxious, as you are, that in the canvassing of results there should be no taint of dishonesty.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)