Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-11-02
VOTING IN NEW YORK.
Hw the Polls VIII BE Conducted in the
City on Election Day.

! City on Election Day.
| The New York voter who goes to the poll
in Eplace on the 9th will find before him
! lie of eight ballot boxes, labeled as follows:
First, president; second, state; third, con-
CESS; fourth, assembly; fifth, city and
county; sixth, judiciary; seventh, aldermen;
eighth, constitutional amendment.
| In the first box the voter may deposit a list
Of thirty-six names of the electors, and the
fist box is devoted to them alone. In the
second box direct voting will begin; in that
tie citizen will name on his ballot his choice
for the office. The governor and lieutenant
governor will be voted for on this ballot.
The third box is given up to the vote for the
congressman, and the names will vary, of
curse, with the particular one of the nine
congressional districts in which the voter
nay reside. In few instances the congress
sonal district lines are SO run that they do
not correspond with the lines Of the election
district, and voters will find two congress
sional boxes on the balloting table. Each
voter will cast ballot in one of the boxes,
and which one will depend upon the side of
the election district he may reside in.
The fourth box will be given up to the
assemblymen, and the names here will prob
ably be myriad if the usual scramble to get
to Albany is followed. Each of the twenty
four assembly districts has its own set Of
candidates. but the vote cast in each district
varies very widely One Of the assembly
districts has but twenty-five election dis
tricts while in another the total runs up to
seventy-fve election districts. The fifth box
has an assorted set of candidates The
mayor, and the county clerk, and the sheriff,
and the president Of the board of aldermen,
and the three coroners all take line on the
ballot cast into the city and county box. Ii
there is any general scratching the canvass
ing of this job lot of candidates will sorely
bother some of the inexpert tally clerks and
and inspectors.
There will be but one name on the ballot
put in the judiciary, or box No. 9.
The next box is given up to aldermen, who,
like the assemblymen, are weeds of annual
growth. There are twenty-five aldermen tc
be chosen, one each from tina twenty-five
assembly districts below the Harlem river
two from the Twenty third ward beyond the
Harlem and one from the Twenty-fourtt
ward. The last box is for the taking Of the
vote on the constitutional amendment, al
provided for by the act approved by the gov
ernor on May Is last for the amendment tx
section of article Of the state constitu
ton.
The magnitude of an election In this city
carries the figures far into the millions
There are in this city, in round numbers
about quarter million voters. Each man !
entitled to vote for thirty-six electors and al
candidates, making total of forty-nin
names, or items, to be canvassed, or, for tn
total number Of voters, grand total of ~
100000 isolated data to get into correc
totals. The gigantic task is divided into IS
lots as there are that number of election dii
J tricts in the city. In some instances clever
clear headed inspectors will get through thei
J section of the work in a few hours, while 1
other instances the whole night is spent i
, trying to get the tally sheets to come on
right by the puzzled poll clerks and inspe'
! tors.-New York World