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Show Pennsylvania is well pleased with its law providing for the numbering of ballots ai they are pat int) the box. It he'pj to secure an honest return ol votes at elections, and is a wonderful assistant in exposing attempted at-tempted fraud. The numbered ballots bal-lots have freq'-iently eniblei the courts to purge rather than throw out a precinct return, and two weeks ago helped lo couviat three Pittsburg election officers of fraudulent practices. prac-tices. The ballots cast for one of the candidates for aldermen were either altered or thrown out, but as each ballot was numbered they were easily recognized by the voters, the wrong was corrected and the wrong-doers convicted of crime. Th.tt is the kind of a law that used to prevail in Utah until the soreheads raised auch a row over it, when they gat a worde one, aud now they find fault because they bit ofl their noses to spile their faces. |