The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-15
HOW TO VOTE AT
 TOWN ELECTIONS
All Tickets on Big Australian BaIIot--NeW
 State Law Will Have Thorough Try-OW

We are on the way already. To-
 morrow is the last day that the State Secretary's office is open to receive caucus lists for insertion in the Aus .tralian ballots which the towns of the State must use in their voting. Octo- Der 3. It is an unknown sea- the Australian ballot, and the voters in z the towns, who have been accustomed to elect their officers by getting their ballots the night before. sleeping on tAem all night. and then walking into fhe voting booth and depositing the ballot of their adoption into the ballot box have a period of unrest before them when it comes to voting this fall. The ballot of their adoption can no longer be slept upon, nor carefully .tucked away in the inside waistcoat Ip0cket. It is a sacred thing, some thing like the original charter of the State of Connecticut, and man must go into the inner court of the temple the booth itself. before he can get a glimpse of it.
 The booth tender will give it to him and 1t will be all folded up like ham of bSots correspondng @ to 10 chicken fried egg. or other kinds of sand fwiches. but there will be one ballot and only one. It will be the duty of the voter when he. gets this ballot to hug. it to his bosom and not lose it. Tt is an official ballot issued by the State of Connecticut with a number
 
 for when the judgment day comes and the ballots are counted As the voter of ho1ies, it will be his privilege to open up his sandwich and see what it contains. The process will be a revela- ftion to him Instead of a sandwich. he will find it a bedquilt. This is where the Australian idea comes in.
 The process of marking dp the bal dot is simple. There is a column for. leach politfca14 party with its candi- dates and there is one blank column without any names in 1t. If a voter wishes to vote the Democratic ticket empty circle at the head of the e>col- A1nnn labelled Republican, and folds up his ballot in the shape that he got it, and moves out of the booth. If he wishes to split Nhis ticket he makes a cross over the column that he approves 9of in the main, and then votes for ling a cross before their individual names. If the name he wishes to vote flor is not anywhere on the sheet he writes it in the blank column where
 When the ballot is presented to the iboxtender, the boxtender acts as a theatre employe and tears off a stub the number of the ballot. The ballot goes in one box and the stub goes in another and they are counted sep ling booth fnjures his ballot or wants ito begin anew he must retrace his steps and hand his ballot to a. box tender. He must not put it in his pocket nor swallow it. He may go to prison if he does. Every ballot is like one of the sparrows of Scripture or the individual hairs a mans head, and each one is as precious as the other.
 The Australian ballot law went into effect in this State on July 1. The method has been used with success three times, first at~the borough elec- ltion in Fenwick on July 4. and at the borough election in Saybrook and the election of the Woodnont Association. In each case the liberties of the com