Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-04
ANOTHER FLAW IS
 FOUND IN ARIZONA
 METHOD OF VOTING
Discovered That 0ne-Third Of Men And Women Who Voted Failed To Cast For Judges And Tax Commissioners

One-third Of the ballots cast in the Warren district yesterday, according to estimates made late last night, were not marked to their full capa city One-third of the meu and wom- en who yesterday appeared at the Warren district polls failed to vote for the candidates at the head of the ticket In other words, either ignor- ance of the manner in which the ballot should be marked, a too com plex ballot a demand of too much work on the voter. or an imperfect system of voting was employed dis- Carding a large number of the votes which should and would have been cast under the old form ballot for the judges of the supreme court the judge of the superior court and the members of the tax commission.
 Ever since the ballots were placed before the public in the form of sample ballots there have been daily instructions on how to mark them. The papers of the state. their news and editorial columns, have pointed to the necessity of voting for the judges and tax commissioners separ- ately and individually. The voters have been fully informed on what was their duty. This then precludes the ignorance charge and almost in fallibly places the blame for the small number of votes cast for these independent candidates on too com pleN ballot which requires, with itA general tickets in the middle, its re- ferendum and initiative petitions a, the bottom and its so-called indepen- dent candidates at the top, that a candidate have a four year course in some good university a business col lcge course and a full set of instruc. tions in penmanship, before he is qualified to meet with the demands of the ballot itself
 There is also another objection to the present proposition as it placeh the candidates for judge and stat, tax commission before the publi, which the democrats believe should be corrected by the next legislature, and which will probably be remedied at that time. This objection refers to the place the candidate has in the primary election as compared with his place in the general election. In the first balloting he is elected as a party representative. in the second he is shufded with the others O. other parties. wherever the initial ol his last name happens to throw him. IT he is the high man in the state primary democratic election for the office of state tax commission. he ia delegated the last position if his name happens to start with z. In the same way the socialist who is run ming against him. receiving perhaps one ehundredth the vote of the democrat. takes the head of the col .unu because his name happens tC commence with an A or B.
 These objections which have been disclosed iu the testing out of thC new law. and which dovetai into Che complaints which followed the pri mary election when the Republican. and Bull Moose desecrated theh tickets for the purpose of later rail roading a man in the general cleo lion. will probably be remedied ii the next sessions of the state law bodv At any rate there have already been many expressions on tbe part O democrats favoring such action, ana some of the candidates have been re ported as having stated they will in troduce and back bills which vii perfect the already excellent elecsioi laws of the state, and give each ma an even break in each of the cleo tiCns.