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Show required, so that strangers to tiie party voter shall not sutler. The utlieini bai- j lots are regularly stamped by a sea!. i To return to" the voter:' hvrctmed j from observation ami entirely live from I ouuide inllueuee, ho prepares his iml- j lot. which was given him by the jiulgps I when he entered the voting place, and j leaving his booth bo returns to inn judges and ousts his ballot, withdrawing withdraw-ing promptly. Yhen anrlmdy desires to challenge a voter, ha sliall lie given a place inside tho rail which separates tho judges from the passage way. Xo cards or dodgers soliciting voteslor any candidate will be permitted in the room. No electioneering may be done within twenty yards of the poll, and in every respect tho voter , is entirely to himself, and no opportunity oppor-tunity whatever is given another to know how bo voted'. Spoiled ballots are returned to the judges, who preserve pre-serve and return them with their other charges. Any one who tells how another voted, if it he possible to ascertain, courts a jail M-ntcnce of six mouths. A like senteuce awaits the election oflioer who drink while on duty, or tho man who provides him wilh liinor. It should lie understood that although tickets are circulated outside tln'Mi are solely for electioneering purposes. Tho real, true blue ticket is stamped ami the seal must be in plain sight before It. may be voted. Theso are provided by th( judges. The registration law that does service with this election law is as comprehensive comprehen-sive in its way as is the other. Together they make protection for thu ballot which rentiers the latter absolutely unassailable. un-assailable. The result of Wyoming's initial election was on tho whole very satisfactory. , inliuvi'u'ii.j The Australian Ballot System Tested at the First Election of the New State. IT WOEIED VEEY SATISFACTORILY A Brief D .-soription of the Plan "With a Fac Simile of the Billots Sent Out as Notices. Laramie, Sept. 11. Special correspondence corre-spondence Wyoming's iirst state election elec-tion was held yesterday. This new statestarled in by, employing the Australian Aus-tralian system of voting, 'and a practi-tical practi-tical demonstration of the ellieicacy of this manner of carrying on an election was given near home, Thu Australian system has been explained ex-plained frequently, but inquiries as to the details of the system still continue. Tho plan is not at all cumbrous. The room in which the election is held is provided with booths, each just large enough to enable a voter to squeeze in and prepare bis ballot on a shelf pro vitled. The preparation of the ballot is a matter in which some euro is necessary. neces-sary. The tickets are provided by the county, and contain the name of every candidato for any olliee, whatever his politics. Tho work tho voter u called upon to do is to write an X mark opposite oppo-site the names of such men as he desires de-sires to favor. For tho clearer elucidation elucida-tion of this plan, a section of the ballot is given below. Tho real ticket, such as was supplied the Wyoming voter, is a large and pretentious sheet, twenty-nine twenty-nine and one-half inches long and nine inches wide. That supplied the democrats demo-crats is pink in color, ft starts off in thiswise: As will be seen every facility is offered of-fered the voter of doing as he pleases in regard to choosing his candidate. A blank space is left in each section of the ticket for a choice, aside from that of either party, if desired. In cases where more than one candidate is to be elected to one particular scries of olli-ces olli-ces a sufficient provision of blank spaces spa-ces is left to scratch all. This may be made plain by the following section cut from the ballot: ' For State Senators. VOTE FOR THERE ONLY. jlinKSSAHKN, L. R. Democrat. X .: j Hunieb, Colin. . Doir.o-ntt. X : : jltiNEii, John A. EcpuM.'c.ui. : j Robiks'. W. A. Ropuhi;eau. jscKKlWiKR, W. B. Uepnbllean. j j i Isxyoeh, ALLtiirC. De.noerat,! X :. i i ; : : I : : : The ticket from which these selections i are made, being the regular democratic ticket, is already marked wi'h the X. This ticket is employed for electioneer- j iug. There is no .scratching of names.! The marks are made in the proper col-1 limn. Tho 'ballots being printed at j public expense, the candidates reiilar-, y nominated must present dply indorsed indors-ed credentials tothe body havingcharge , of the printing of tickets, which body is in the nature of a commission in the service of the commonwealth. Other candidates than those of party may h ive their names on the ticket if they secure HW names to a petition. Kaeh petitioner must give bis- residence number. num-ber. No person may sign morn than one such petition. Dark horse. take their chances in the blank spaces. The certified nomination are posted I tcn davs before the election antl are I published in the newspapers. Declina-! Declina-! lions of nominations must be made to the proper public officer at least two days prior to the holding of the election elec-tion and such declination must be sworn to. In case of vacancies or, the ticket before election they shall be filled in the regular way. In ca,e of vacancies the judges of election shall be provided with "stickers" of the later candidate. The regular ticket to be voted is white although in the Wyoming instance in-stance pink has been used in advance for ante-election purposes. The designation desig-nation of the party of the candidate is |