, 1861-02-26
Gbita9n Gtihtttte,


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!, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1851.
NEW nLRCTION Law.
We regret to announce that the bill
printed herewith, enacted nomina11T to
prevent illegal voting, has become a law.
To our view, it carries the hudab1e pur-
pose of preventing frauds on. the ballot
box, the extreme Of preventing The
qualified electors of the State from votingt
It is 50; incongruous in itself thata subse~
quent law was deemed necessary, to define
the length Of, time required to make resi-
dence-whcther thirty or sixty days. The
Inv which Te print herewith provides for
a5,A those periods. L. IS; fortunate that
another act WAS passed declaring IN favor
Of sixty days. But tLis is not the chief OBJ
lection to the new law. It will be
seen that the first section requires
a1mostas much ceremony to enable legal
voter to deposit lis ballot, as would be
needed for an introduction at an Oriental
Court Every man whose voteis challenged
must bring forward tseo ecitaesees who must
be knowing TO the fact that hc. is duly
nns,ified The Witnesses =, must Il 1,e ,,erson.
au,, xno,,n to the iri1cea of ae7act;oin The.
voter himself must tell where he has re-
sided for the past sky days and what oc-
cunatit,n. he has followed. One of his wit
nasee9 rp,,et suao;r that ba ftha chs1,onroa
nsr,vl hae resided in tbe sta,e one rear
Mn IN ,,,is :c;tv and NJ, be,ieve n otbe,
,aroc.c;+iee of tbe State Il ia customary
c.r -3a,a,, ,o1;,;ao1 ,.,+1- n anno;n+
on,n,ni++ao. - s,aad ~ aacb mi, .n5 e,,o1.
l.,,,na a1a-n ro.a~ w1or, ,1,.1 d. not lnou
n ba: 1ooa11v entitled ii +be r;gbt If snf
fr,ne T. f1anuont,v h,nnene f,,o+ these
committees in on c1ccea ~ n,rtison zea1
challenge ..verv vote offered such a
conree ;a etr;rt1r, 1oco1 and evorv voter so
c1,o1,snoaa ,onst to1,t, the oath reod;rod hv
,ar TTrsar nrasa,t reo,1ot;,ru Tho TINA
occnnied in administering the oath ia so
short that it il not actually imnossihle in re-
ccive all the votes in the ten l,onrs during
which the no]ls are kent omen. But who
sh III estimate t1,e confusion and DELAY al.
most certain tn erow mt Of the new svs-
+em7 Who aha3, limit the amonnt of living
raon;a;te +o ena,1c the l7oneat nen of each
marty to denosit their ballots? It will be
necessary to roat1v 1nultiplv the election
:, districts IL our large cittes-whic1 will OBJ
viousiv facilitate tie chances of double vo-,
,ine. Z But II re suppose the num-
l,cf a. rolIs in. Chicaco to be 1aised
from ten 10 forty It is still doubtful whether
moro than t1,roa-fourthe If the lera1 voters
can ,,roduce witnesses ,-2,o are 4ers0na1zv
1:n0,au to al the ;udoea az reauired bv law
1t;s fa;r IN rres,;rn, That everv vote wil1 be
CHALLENGED 1,ecanse t1,e law authorizes the
CHALLENGING of cvcrv,,odv Iet us sun-
nosc that t,yo men of onnos;te no1itics eta
finn themselves at the no1ls and cba11cncc
al votaa of7ared 1,atwee,, sunrise md
s,,sot 1ot t,,on o1,o,,onro e,no non
WIN doen. 1,;,,se1r oo rrn,, lnown that In
do. not +o,-o 1,;a w;tr a,sas rr;th 1,;n-ro,,a
ona uhose r;o,,t ~ rote 10 ;rcontnet;h,,
IF na dooe ,ot ,,on,s, "a ho nerson,71v oc-
ou,;ntad with t7,a inaoos ~ v;t1 tuo ner-
ena. a1rooar ~ 10 III. r1,, o~e .,oua;n+
ad ,rf,l, t,,o i,a,,es .na m 16e ;u7aes ha
-e,st ~ oT o1z ,>nnt ,1n +.ro ~.,aoDa n1,o
..a .,s;1,,1s. ~ ~ 1oara +,,a;. h,,,;,,oaz ~ ~
1,a.,- -=.1. "a, c.u +,,a -,,rno-o - ,.a1-;ao
~ 4l ~. ~ ,..Hs. r. 49,
.N-.u;ths,ond;r-, ,naso oh;ac,;on, - ,,,,s+
In .f7m;tte,7 ,hat tbe d;f11cn1t;es THROWN in
41,o 1v,r of i],eq,1 vot;np ara very coneide.