Show A TRICKY VOTER voting is a burden it should be a matter of conscience the man who would in the slightest prevent another from voting his will at the polls is crooked he makes of elections a farce a joke at public cost A man was declared elected from wisconsin as a member of congress in looking over the records after he was sworn in he decided votes had been counts count ed for him which he was not entitled he said he could not take a job to which he was not honestly elected and resigned that kind of a man would add luster to any station before being an ail officeholder he was something infinitely higher a man the test for any fellows fitness is is he manly honorable square Is he unwilling to get there by the tricky vote there are only two cases under the law where a member of an election board may go into a booth and assist a voter a blind voter or one who cannot write and these must be put on oath and this assistance is limited to marking the ballot as the voter directs no suggestions no advice the win by any trick candidate or party is the one that should be relegated to the primary eliss class of private life to study the ethics of voting to learn that the polls is the place for the honest expression of the peoples will in regard to public business 1 I |