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Show UNINTELLIGENT VOTING Tlio returns from almost nny election elec-tion district show a regular proportion' propor-tion' of errors In marking; ballots. Also tho roturns always shew many Illogical oddities. Tho mlstukcs of tho ballot to nre' by no means confirmed to unod-ucated unod-ucated persons. Down In iho back slrcet of tbo city whero recent immigrants im-migrants provall, you might expect to find blundering voters. Tho chances aro that their polltl cal education has been well attended attend-ed to. Some workor has taken his pupils ono by one, and hns shown them that oven an Ignorant man can mark n ballot corroctly. For such citizens, tho net of voting Is n great privilege. Thoy modltalo over their lesson, with great searohlng3 of heart enter tho voting booth and nro apt to mark correctly. Moanwhllo tho hurried buair.oss man enters tho polling place, his mind centered on probloms that he loft nt his offlco. Before ho knows It, ho mny havo marked two candidates candi-dates whore bo could vote only for ono. ' In tho states whoro tho law does not permit ono to voto n ctraignt party ticket by making, r. single mark, tho tall ond of tho ballot usii-oily usii-oily shows a lower total. Yet tho contests most vitally nffcctlng a community com-munity may como nt tho end. It seems but a trifling effort to mark a ballot from end to end. Many vot ors seem to bocomo wearied by this strain on their masstvo intellects. |
