Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-10-14
Woman's New Role
When We Go to Vote

There is an ordeal lying ahead of
aus, and only two or three weeks
away, to which many are looking
forward with fear and apprehension.
If we discharge our duty as good
American citizens, we shall go to
the polls to vote on November 2.
The question that very many would
like to have answered just now is
how 10 do it.
There is NOTHING about the
\ ceremony Of casting a vote that
! anyone needs to dread. Before the
fatrIul day comes, we shall have
had due notice of the voting place.
When we approach it on election
day, we should remember that no
one is allowed to electioneer or talk
politics within one hundred feet of
it. When we enter, we shall find
probably three or more officials in
charge, some of whom are judges
while others are clerks of the cleo
ton.
One of the judges will give us
folded ballot; and at the same time,
he will announce our name to
clerk, who will record it.
Then we shall go into one of the
voting booths, Of which there will
! probably be several, and after clos
ling it by drawing the curtain which
is stretched across the front, we
shall unfold our ballot and proceed
to mark it as we want it.
When we unfold it, we shall find
all Of the different tickets printed
side by side upon the one sheet.
The entire list ofrepublican candl-
dates, for example, will be in ONE
Gol-mn. At the head of this col
umn, will be the word Republican"
Before this word at the head of the
ticket, will be a small CIRCLE;
and before the name of every cand-
idate in the list will be a SQUARE.
Just beside the republican ticket,
will be the ticket of another party,
as the democrats, arranged in the
, same way; and beside this will be
another list, and so on. One entire
, side of our sheet will be occupied
by these tickets.
! How We Vote
: We vote by merely MAKING A
CROSS in a circle or a square, Or
both. If we put cross in circle
at the head of one of the tickets,
i, and put no more marks on the tick
|, ct whatever, it means that we have
voted for every candidate on that
ticket, or in other words, that we
have voted the ticket straight.
If we wish to vote for candidates
on different tickets, as most good
citizens will probably want to do
4 bis year, we may follow either of
ne two plans given below:
n Q) We may put a cross In the
H EIRCLE at the head Of the ticket
1 }ontalning the greatest number of
candidates for whom we wish to
Fvote, and then cross in the
Il SQUARE before the name of any
candidate on ANOTHER ticket
for whom we wish to vote; and
this will mean that we have voted
for the particular man on the sec
ond ticket in whose square we have
put a cross but for the candidates OF
the ticket marked in the circle for
all REMAINING offices. This is
| the easiest way to vote mixed
ticket. AS an example, let us
suppose that person wishes to vote
4 the republican ticket for all offices
glexcept the governor. She will put
D cross in the circle at the top of
the republican ticket and then a
cross in the square before the dem
ocrate candidate for governor.
This latter cross will then mean
that she is voting for the democratic
candidate for governor, while the
cross in the circle will Indicate that
she is voting for republican candi-
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