The company's campaign to keep workers from the polls worked almost flawlessly: only the UE faithful dared to turn out for the certification election. Of the 9,752 workers eligible, only 3,163 cast ballots-95 percent of them for UE Local 103. Despite the overwhelming majority of votes for Local 103, the clever words of RCA's agreement with the UE denied the union its victory: the sole bargaining agent would be the candidate that received the majority of the votes "of all those eligible to vote in such election." 52 RCA's strategy of keeping the majority of workers from the polls therefore succeeded in denying the UE what it needed to win: a majority of all those qualified to vote.