The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-28

| ticipate the name) has been cast at Ranch 49 There are several such re- mote districts even in New York state whence news leaks almost as slowly as in Montana or Idaho And there is no deprecating the importance of the vote that is cast at Clover Four Corners. It is the will of the people that rules, and the Associated Press
 can know no distinction when it comes to the counting of honest bal lots. Otherwise it would not pay for that twenty mile ride.
 New Jersey has been thorn in the flesh of the election tabulatOrs for many years. In the first place 1t re- fuses to close its polls until o'clock, and its law requires that the counting of the entire ballot from top to bottom shall be completed before another bal lot is taken up. There are upwards of 240 names on the Jersey ballot this year in some of the cities, and it is doubtful whether on election night President Wilson will know how his own state has gone. The Jersey me thod is employed in some of the Cen tral and Western states. adding fur ther handicap to the difference in time but New York and a majority of the
 Eastern states put the presidential electors on separate ballot to facili- ! tate the count
 If the foregoing has not helped you 1 to visualize the process by which the
 greatest news gathering organization
 tries to satiate your election curiosity and furnish masses of figures to back
 up it's announcement Of the victory,
 picture to yourself this one fact. On
 election night the facilities for wire communication over practically the
 entire country are for the moment de voted almost exclusively to the collec- ! tion and distribution Of returns. The
 mileage of those wires you will find
 run into the millions. The Associated
 Press leased wire system itself is al
 most doubled on election night. and the telegraph companies in their own
 way are cooperating directly or indi-
 rectly in the great effort to bring the
 figures to a head.
 Consider also the human factors
 thousands of operators at the key and
 telephone transmitters, newspaper re-
 pOrters and editors at work in local
 quarters of the Associated Press is
 made the center of tabulation. The
 upstate county man is stationed at
 the most convenient center, usually
 the county seat, from which he throws
 out his net for the gathering Of his
 local items.
 For the special work in hand, twen-
 ty-five extra wires are strung into the Associated Press offices in New York,
 giving direct and exclusive connection with the principal cities. Before the operators is stacked a varied assort- ment of printed forms, whose blank
 sDaeas await the figures that tell the story. There are pink forms, blue , forms. blue, buff. green, yellow and , white to make the various compila' tions of the vote for president, gover-
 nor, senate, congress and the two houses of the state legislature. . In an adjoining room there have been assembled a staff Of hundred l men to serve tabulators. Previous tC , the election the Associated Press has - arranged with some of the best banks | in the city to furnish expert account l ants for this work. They work in re 7 lays. the first crew reporting at tho P close of the polls at 5 o'clock. eompil f ing the figures until ? o'clock in tht - morning.
 9 Less than ten minutes after the clos 3 ing of the polls. the work begins. Int g first returns in New York are invari l. lably from some of the upstate citiei