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Show VOTING BY MAIL IS PLAN PROPOSED Commercial Travelers Specially Spe-cially Interested; Head of Movement in City. The enfranchisement of 1,500,000 votors in the United States, whoso business busi-ness provonts their voting at iheir place of rcsidonce on the day of election, elec-tion, is tho aim of Leon Meyer of Colin. Brown & Co. of New York, who is a guest at the Hotel Utah. Mr. Meyer will call on Governor William Spry to-da3' to-da3' to interest him in the movement. Mr. Meyer, who has been a travoling salesman for years, has doviscd a system sys-tem of voting by mail which has been pronounced constitutional by eminent attorneys Speaker Champ Clark, at the suggestion of Mr. Mover, has in preparation a bill to be introduced in tho Now York legislature which will permit persons necessarily absent from their polling places lo vote by mail. With slight modifications to suit local conditions this bill will bo recommended recommend-ed for passage to the various legislatures legisla-tures of the country, Cortified ballots, similar to tho certified cer-tified checks of banks, is the underlying underly-ing plan whereby tho Meyer plan of voting by mail would become opera-i opera-i tive. To mako this plan feasible in Utah tho following slight, changes in the election laws arc necessary, Mr. Meyer points out: First It will be ncccsuary to permit traveling men and otheru who expect to bo alioont from their voting: district on election day to register any time within four months of election day. Second It will bo necessary to provide pro-vide each registration agent with special blanks for tho reKlHtnitlon of voters who expect to ho abHent, These blanks mu3t be numbered and provided pro-vided with a numbered utub. On pre-Mentlng pre-Mentlng himnelf for registration the voter muHl Ign both the blank and the stub. Having properly roKlxtereil the voter will then receive from the replBtratlon apent an official ballot. In caso the nominations arc not made the ballot must have blanks in which the names of thu candidates may be written. This official ballot must be folded and placed In an unucalod blank envelope. The stub is than pasted on the outride of the envelope and the envelope and ita contents giv mi to tho voter. Third Provision rnust bo made for (Continued on Page Four.) IVOTIiUG BY MAIL 13 PLM PROPOSED 4 (Continued from Pago Ono.) receiving ballots mailed by the absent voters. Tho voter must mark his ballot, relnclose and seal It In the envelope with his identification stub pasted on the outside, and then inclose in-close the envelope In a mailing envelope en-velope and mall It to the county clerk of his home county, to reach him prior to the date of the election. The identification stub on the Inclosed envelope en-velope gives the number of the voter's home voting district and the countv dork on the morning of election must turn the envelopes from the absent voters over to the Judges of the various vari-ous voting districts. One Judge, In the presence of the others, must open tho envelopes and deposit the ballots without unfolding them In the ballot box. Mr, Meyer Is the head of a committee of tho Associated Traveling Salesmen of New York (inc.) that called on President Wilson, Speaker Clark and other prominent promi-nent statesmen to present tho claims of the traveling men and others who are disfranchised under the present system of voting. Relative to his plan, Mr. Meyer said last night: Aside from the fact that every man should have the right to vote, Irrespective Irre-spective of the nature of his business,, busi-ness,, the question of traveling men voting by mall Is Important politically. political-ly. In New York state alone there are 172,000 traveling men. Of these i 140,000 were unable to vote at the election of 1912 because of their absence ab-sence from their voting districts. It Is easy to see that In an election reasonably rea-sonably close this vote would decide the Issue. In the United States there are 800,-000 800,-000 traveling men. This proposed law would apply not only to them, but to the men In the army and navy, to students at college, to railway men, the railroad mail clerks, and to government gov-ernment employees at Washington. Speaker Clark and Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, arc Intensely , Interested In our plan and have pledged us their support. We have also heen assured of th- support of ! the-rvarlous women's suffrage organizations. |
