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Show I AMERICA S DAY OF JUDGMENT. Today i.s America's big day of days, Ii is the recording of pub-i lie opinion. 11 is tin- daj when the people, if they are dissatisfied J with those who an pver them, have the opportunity to command the vacating of the high positions and the melting uu fpp others In the matter ol president, the voters do po) tit 1 1;. proceed i. oust the chi f magistrate of the nation. They take the more round ' about method of piloting presidential electors nrhp sre to convoy the message to Washington snd there deliver the mandate It was m with I niteil Slates senator up to a few e;irs ao The citizens named the legislators who in turn could vote for whom they pleased. Then the law w;is changed and now the voters indicate indi-cate their choice on the ballot sheet and the legislators simply eon-firm eon-firm the vote. Since thai law went Into effect, ri number or legis-latures legis-latures have been of opposite political faith to thai ol the men made senators l But gradually there is more direcl voting, with less possibility of the will of the people being disregarded j in I tab tlmre lias been p radical change within the la.t tew years I in the eleeiion n4,irli imr;. Willi llu discarding of the Voting ma-I ma-I ellilies, the old A llsl I all. Ill ballot sVsleiM lll.s lierli si il III sh6fj.' Hill j there are far less Ktringenl regulations than when the Byatcm first j was introduced. To avoid 1 1 - Macing of Identification marks, in tin j earlier historv ..t the tysteni ovarj tseminglj irregular mark on' a j ballot was i ajlse for i( .i etion and POthing other tl'.iu a prOSfl in D 1 specified square was allowed. The law in I'tuli tpecificsll) requires' j scratching undei certain condition. ThU opens the waj for ldin-1 a tification, and yel ii did awa) "ith the extreme requirements which H resulted in the throwing ut of hujidreds of ballots. H In I'tah the elections an comparative! free from fraud, m I .ii t neither one of the big parties has DO 11 known to openly eoiiut nane. other than horn i elections, but in the large cities, where all ele-ments ele-ments of society are met with COIJStanl igilauee i.s QSCOSSafj to pre-vent pre-vent frauds in registering ami in voting I'tah has fewer election (scandals than an other States, which is a tribute to people who arc quick to condemn and punish those who do citizenship. |