Show election laws one of the most important duties devolving on the first legislature vill be the revision of our election laws the abolition of the utah commission and the congressional laws relating to our elections will leave matters in u somewhat chaotic slate in some respects the reverting back to the old system in vogue before national legislation took charge of our election machinery would not be objectionable in other respects it would the world has been moving since utah enacted ita territorial election laws and now the australian ballot system has found favor in many of our foremost states while the farat state legislature is fixing up our election machinery why not adapt the australian ballot system it is strictly secret as the constitution provides our voting shall be and it is at thu same time simple it does away with the evils of and bogus ballots for all ballots given out are bearing the names of all authorized candidates and the voter goes into a private booth and puts his crosa by the names to be doted for the beetem does away with the buying of votes ballots cannot be prepared before hand and given to a hired voter to be deposited in other words corrupt men cannot fee the good delivered as is possible under the present and buying a cat in a bag not profitable there has been considerable bard feeling engendered in this county by the usa tf t f bogoa ballots and aud if the australian ballot system is a law ought to be passed prohibiting the use of it is baay to a name on the same colored paper a name on the ticket to deceive a common voted not many citizens make a careful criticism of their but take them hurriedly when the beading is noticed and deposit them names printed in or names pasted on may not be observed in one opinion therefore bogus ballots and castera should be made a crime if the australian ballot system is not adopted which would of course make both if officers do their duty wo believe a majority of our citizens would favor the australian ballot system and ask the legislators elect to study it up |