The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-11-14
TINE ADSURDITY OF THE UN-
wuEIuLY LAWS WHICH GOVERN
AND FORM OUR BOARDS
OF ELECTION.

An obseryant and well-read friend of
ours, having been put into that irksome
but necessary durance which falls to the
lot of members of the Boards of Officers
who supelintend the voting and count
the number and names and diverse
varieties of ballots which are cast at the
General Elections of this State, came to
us night or two since to say that he
should like to have us call the attention
of the people and through them, their
representatives, to the absurd and weari-
some unweiidliness Of the present cleo
ton law and the needless volume of very
hard and very ineessan. night and day
and day and night toll, which befalls,
under its provisions those who perform
the offices of Judges, Inspectors and
Clerks of Election. In r,ply to our In
,errogatory of what remedy he would
apply. he said that he would have the
existing Statute amended so as to incor-
pora.e provision of the New York Elec-
ton Law, which provides as he under
stands it, somewhat as follows:
The Election Boards are double, so to
speaL:-that is to say, the machinery and
oper atives thereof are of so much greater
capacity than our Boards as to enable
them to keep the vote counted up, al
most as fast, from hour to hour, as the
voting goes on; and the manner of its
doing is thusvise: The Board Is pro-
vided with two glass ballot boxes and q
fall. extra complement of canvassers and
counters; and the mode of procedure is
in this fashion: One of these glass boxes
is kept in the polling place for the
space of one hour, at the end of which
time the empty box is put in its place
and itself handed over to the canvasssrs
and counters who empty it of its contents
and proceed to call of and tally the vote.
At the end of another hour the empty
box replaces the full one; and SO the
work is, as nearly as may be. made to
keep pace with the voting. This division
of the labor of the Board not only relieves
tho members thereof of much of the te-
dium which falls to the lot of Nevada
Election Boards, but makes it possible to
have early returns. This is Why it is we
get such prompt news from New York
and Pennsylvania although the
pouulations are dense and numerous, the
machinery under which the votes of their
citizens are received and counted il 50
simplified and so efficient as to greatly
tighten the lAbors of the Boards and
make it possible to arrive at the actual
result within . very few hours after the
polls are closed.
We join our friend in expressing hope
that 0ar incoming lawmakers (much
hope AID advice and wisdom of counsel
arc always expended on " the next Legis-
lature'') WIN look at the cumbersome,
old fashion, clumsy Election Law of
this State, and by I'D Dpting some such
amendments as we have limited at, create
the possibility of our receiving, ct the
ScAs OF government Wlsulu oiC "OoA "a
our learning of the official returns from |
New York and Philadelphia, something |
reliable from the more important Eastern |
and Western counties of this common
wealth of magnificent distances and
amazing adaptiveness to the boring of
artesisn wells. Inasmuch as our popu-
lstion is of the approximate average of
third of one human being to the
square mile we ought, if possible, to getat
the vote of the twelve or fourteen thousand
sovereigns who exercise the gellorious
right of suffrage with something less of
deiny than at present, and We believe
that if the hint which we have thus given
at second hand is acted on the desired
tscilities may be enjoyed. While on this
subject We are reminded to protest against
the injustice which was wrought upon
certain voters in Lander county by the
failure upon the part of the Commission
ers of said county to appoint resistra-
ton sgent N certain precinct within
their jurisdiction. We learn that such
de-eliction did take place and that there