The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-22
VOTING IN NEW YORK.
How the Polls Will BE Conducted I'm the City
on Election Day.

VI q
New York World.
The New York voter who goes to the polling
place TO cast bis ballot on the 9th of next month
will find spread out before him a line OF eight
ballot-boxes, and they will be labeled in the
order of canvass or count as follows: First,
President; second, State; third, Congress-;
fourth, A assembly; fifth, city and county; sixth,
judiciary; seventh, aldermen; eighth, c~onstitu-
Jional amendment.
In the first box the voter may deposit a list Of
thirty-six names of the electors selected by one
or the other Of the political parties 70 cast their
vote in the Electoral College for the already
named choice Of the party. These men vote for
President and Vice president of the United
States, and the first box is devoted to them
alone. In the second box direct voting will be-
gin; in that the citizen will name on his ballot
his choice for the office. The Governor and
acknowledgement 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 course. with the
particular one of the nine congressional
districts in which the voter may reside. In a
few instances the congressional district lines are
so run that they do not correspond with tho
lines of the election district, and voters will find
two congressional boxes on the ~ballotine table.
Each voter will cast a ballot in one of the boxes,
and which one will depend upon upon the side
of the election district he may reside in.
The fourth box will be given up to Assembly
men, and the names here will probably 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 ont twenty
two election districts, 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 sher-
if, 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. IL
thors is any general scratching the cauvassing
of this job lot of candidates will sorely bother
some of the ~irexpert tally-clerks aud inspectors.
There are no local judicial posts to fill this
year, but there is an associate judge of the
Court of Appeals of this State to be chosen in
place of Judge Gray, who has filed out the term
OF Judge Chas. A. Rapallo. deceased. There
will be but one name on the ballot put in the
judiciary, or box No. b.
The next box is given up to aldermen, who.
like the Asssmblymen, are weeds of annual
| growtn. There are twenty-five aldermen TO be
chosen, one each from the twenty-five Assembly
districts below the Harlem river, two from the
Twenty-third ward beyond the Harlem and one
from the Twenty-fourth ward. The last box is
for the taking OF the vote on the constitutional
| amendment. as provided for by the act approved
by the Governor on May 10 last for the amend
ment to Section 6 of Article 6 of the State Con-
s~titution.
The magnitude OF an election in this city car
ries the figures far into the millions. There are
in this city, in round numbers. about a quarter
million of men who will cast votes in November.
Each man is entitled to vote for thirty-six elect
ors and all candidates., making a total Of forty
nine names, or items, to be canvassed, or, for
the total number OF voters, q grand total of III
$50. 600 isolated data to get into correct totals.
The gigantic task is divided into $50 lots, as
there are that number of election districts in
the city. In some instances clever, clear-headed
inspectors will get through their section of the
work in a few hours, while in other instances
the whole night is spent in trying to get the
tally-sheets to come out right by the puzzled
poll clerks and inspectors.