Show COUNTING OF THE VOTES in becent elections there has been little r raud la in blew york the counting of votes lotes has been in the past more fruitful of trickery an ana falsification than any other part of the election process in 1893 the car in certain districts reduced the matter to its lowest lovest terms by simply reporting a unanimous vote ote on ther their side and then going out to fling up their hats for the rest of the night in th ohp e subsequent election competent aud ir corruptible men supervised the canvass canas so strictly that the percentage of fraud was as FO small ifancy if any existed as never tc le heard hear of this watching vat ching says sas i w riter arbiter in century at the count not I 1 rev revealed en aed intentional lying ling but say sai accidental mst mistakes aies in ono one case casa taa board of I 1 confessed they the d did not 1 enow w liow how to count the votes and ed entirely to the guidance gui dince of 0 well veil informed watcher wa acher the counting is done in public and is often an interesting sight everyou every organization and bac each h candidate may t kend a representative to observe it i though nobody but the inspectors is is per permitted in bitted to touch the ballots the ht tickets are first f coun counted an ten by four men in succession and a tall v is kept by at least two assistants E each h name is credited with as many as there are tickets for his side then one inspector reads off of those t tickets ickens which are split or have attached n or upon which names have bare been or new names written and bac i i candidate is credited with a vote ever time his name appears when this is finished the most prominent office il i taken up and the sum of the votes otes for each candidate is ascertained |