The Nation - News from July 21, 1985
Officials monitoring the National Organization for Women’s presidential election in New Orleans stopped balloting when they discovered that two candidates’ names had been switched on the printed sample ballots, then extended the voting until early today. During the final campaigning for the NOW presidency, Judy Goldsmith, the organization’s current leader, accused challenger Eleanor Smeal of “hysterical misrepresentation, duplicity and character assassination” that smacked of “ward boss political mentality.” But Smeal, a former NOW president, refused to be provoked and stuck to her platform.
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