New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-20
HOW, AND FOR WHOM, WE VOTE.

properly registered. The Boards OF Registry met
in the several Election DISTRICTS at the place OF
holding the poll, on Tuesday, the 10th DAY Oh
October. at a. m, to make up the lists OF voters.
The basis of this registry was the poll lists OF last
vear. but no man should depend upon the fact that
bs voted a year ago to ensure his registration.
Every voter should see for himself that he Is duy
recorded afresh The registry is an alphabetical
LIST containing the full name, street. and number
Of the residence of each voter On the Tuesday
next preceding the day of eection Goth OF Octooer
the Boards of Registry meet for the second and
last time, to perfect the lists by adding such names
a, are entitled to that honor, and erasing any
which may have been erroneOusly set down. For
this purpose they sit from am to Up. m. on
Tuesday, the 3Oth, and Wednesday, the 3lst OF
Octt Der. All the proceedings are open, AMI may
be witnessed and questioned by any voter OF the
district At this final meeting, care should be
taken. not only to see your own name properly re-
corded, but to see that no illegal names are on the
lst-such as aliens, non-residents, and minors. LII
will be easy TO correct such errors then, while at
the polls the very fact of registry ID almost con-
elusive of the right to vote. The additions az the
final meeting ought to be mainly of persons natu-
rallied within the fortnight.
On the 9th of November we shall be called upon
TO vote the FLOWING tickets: For Box No. J,
President" ticket Of Electors containing 80
names; for Box No. 9, " State" a ticket having
on it four names, viz. one for Governor, one ior
Lieutenant. Governor, one for Canal Commissioner,
and one for Inspector of State Prisons; for DO,
No. 9. "Coneress," ticket having one name,
" For Representative in Congress" for Box No. 3,
"Assembly," a ticket with one name, "FOr Mem
der of Assembly," for Box No. 6, Getty and
County" ticket containing one name, "For
Registers" for Box No. 8, judiciary" ticket
containing four Names viz, one for Justice OF the
Supreme Court, one for Surrogate, one for Re-
corder, and one for City Judge; for Box (not
numbered) labeled Supervisors" ticket with
one NAME g. For Supervisor" for Box (not num-
bered) labeled Constitutional Amendment" one
ticket, for or against the extension of negro suf-
frage.
Thus we have in November eight boxes, and of
course eight separate ballots; six of these, viz:
Presidential, State, City and County, Judiciary,
Supervisors, and Constitutional Amendment, are
uniform throughout the city; for the other two
Congress and Assembly the candidates vary with
the FIVE Congressional and seventeen Assembly
Districts There will probably be no lack of tickets
OF ballots; but nerer rote any ticket without carefully
reading it. This rule always good, is particularly
important now, since the peculiar confusion OF oil
parties except one renders it difficult to ascertain
what are genuine tickets. II you mean to vote, as
we hope you do for Lincoln and Hamlin, compare
your ticket with the list of electors which will be
published in THE TRIBUNE and other Republican
papers, for the Opposition will not only have sew
eral mongrel tickets of their own, but will cir
culate apparently straight Republican ballots,
with names omitted ms-,pelled, or changed alto
gether, in the hope Of defeating some one or more
Of our Electors. OfcandidateS for State, County
and other Offices most people will be familiar with
the names, and cannot easily be deceived, if they
look sharp to the middle letters and spelling
Presumng that you have been duly registered,
you select your tickets according to number fold
ed so as to hide the names and plainly show the
Endorsement, and walk up to the poll, giving your
full name, and the number and street of your res
dence; the clerk sees the name on his list says All
right, and your ballots are taken, called off by the
Inspector" John Smith, No. 227 Third Avenue,
''votes the whole, and you make room for others.
If you have been registered, it is scarcely pro-
babe that you will be challenged, since all the
points raised on challenge ought to have been
cleared up at the time of registry. The qualifca-
tons which entitle a man to vote are: for white
man, native born, that he is u years of age, has
Lived four months in the county or city, now act
uay resides in the Election District, and has re-
aided for 80 days in the district from which the
officer for whom he desires to vote is to he chosen
The last clause affects at this election only Coo
gressmen and Assembly men. For instance, you
move after the 18th of October across the Sixth
avenue, between Fourth and Fourteenth streets,
from the Ninth to the Fifteenth Ward, and yOl
lose your vote for member Of Congress, as you
20 from the Seventh to the Sixth District; but
you may still vote for Assembly man as you have
not gone out of the Seventh Assembly District. If
in the Fifteenth Ward you simply move from one
side to the other OF Fourth street you lose your
vote for Assembly but retain that for Congress. II
you happen to be a naturalized citizen, you must
have been naturaized for at least ten days before
election. Should you be a " colored person." you
must have been citizen OF the State for three
years, a resident for ore year, and during that
year seized and possessed of freehold estate
worth $3.50 over all debts and membranes, and
have paid taxes thereon; beside whi,h you must
have all the before mentioned qualifications Of
three classes native born white men, foreign born