Show THE LOSS FROM BAD BALLOTS the Hec eity for using urine the greatest precaution in voting the me red book or official legislative manual tor for 1896 compiled and published by gen palmer secretary of state pursuant purr auant to law lav contains tables of the returns of election of november 1895 which make a partial and only a partial exhibit of alleged defective ballots ballot S th thrown rown out by the poll 1011 canvassers the total number of electors elector thus reported franchised disfranchised dis in the state as a consequence of the confusion and confounding of the blanket ballot or australian system of voting reaches the enormous number of and that probably Is not halt balf the total it is a well known tact fact that in some of the districts of this city and county the inspectors at many of the polls construed the law as not requiring them to make report of defective ballots of the election districts of the county no returns of such ballots are roade made from ninety one as the tables of the red book dhow and yet are acknowledged chautauqua county which contains the th cities of dunkirk and jamestown make no return ohe che mung containing the city of elmira reports 2 hamilton none jefferson with the city of watertown only 70 kings containing all the city of brooklyn the second county and city of the state where it is known that the number of defective ballots rejected was relatively greater than in new york none the aggregate vote of kings practically a part of new york returned as counted is the aggregate vote of new york returned as counted is yet new york acknowledges ballots as defective etc and rejected by rule of proportion kings county must have had orange county containing the cities of newburg and Midd middletown letowt makes no report orleans with numerous large villages only 5 richmond only 3 schenectady with the city of schenectady none ulster with the city of kingston none lestch westchester West cheater est er with the cities of yonkers and mt vernon vemon which have the myers ballot machine hine reports one detective defective and rejected vote which must have been at th thi poll of one of the towns using the blanket ballot |