On counting the votes for Mayor, a question arose concerning the validity of a ballot deposited for Beebe.
By the Constitution it is provided, that at all elections voting shall be by ballot on white paper.
It was decided by the Council that no evidence of attempt at fraud was here presented, that none could by any possibility be thus perpetrated, and that the ballot should be counted as one vote.
The Ballot Act was passed for the protection of voters.
Before the ballot was announced, Ohio made a change of four votes in favor of Mr. Lincoln, making him the nominee for President.
When order had been restored, it was announced that on the third ballot Abraham Lincoln of Illinois had received three hundred and fifty-four votes and was nominated by the Republican party to the office of President of the United States.
In the Chicago Convention of 1860 the fight for Seward was maintained with desperate resolve until the final ballot was taken.
It was the crowning merit of the reform act, from a whig point of view, that it stayed the rising tide of democracy, and raised a barrier against household suffrage and the ballot which was not broken down for a generation more.
The qualification for this franchise had originally been fixed at £20, and the king deprecated any reduction, but the omission of the ballot reconciled him and other timid reformers to an immense increase in the lower class of borough voters.
These were kept in power by Negro voters, to some seven hundred thousand of whom the ballot had been given by the reconstruction acts.
The Southern Unionists cared little for theories; they wanted the Confederates punished, themselves promoted to high offices, and the Negro kept from the ballot box.
The electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballotfor President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves.
The electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves.
I fear so, though with theballot we shall still have a good deal of intimidation and bullying.
The honorable Senator seems anxious to take under his care the ballot box, as he has the slave system of the country, and direct who shall or who shall not use it for the redress of what they deem a political grievance.
There can be no excuse or pretext for revolution while the ballot box is free.
It is feared by the tyrant; he who usurps power, and seizes upon the liberty of others; he, for one, fears the ballot box.
Do you ask what can be done, if you abandon the ballot box?
Dreadful, indeed, would be the condition of this country, if these principles should not only be carried into the ballot box, but into the presidential chair.
Where is the slave to party in this country who is so lost to his own dignity, or so corrupted by interest or power, that he does not, or will not, carry his principles and his judgment into the ballot box?
And who shall dare say that an abolitionist has no right to carry his principles to the ballot box?
Sir, no man, who is an American in feeling and in heart, but ought to repel this charge instantly, and without any reservation whatever, that if they fail at the ballot box they will resort to the bayonet.
If the ballot box fail them, the bayonet may be their resort, as mobs and violence now are.
The last ballot he had cast was against the reelection of Jefferson in 1804.
The nominations closed and the Secretary cast the ballot for the above named persons.
Even his Bill of March 1794 for increasing the Militia by an extension of the old custom of the ballot or the drawing of lots produced some discontent.
The Ballot Act would have upset the Throne, according to the Tories, but the Throne is on a firmer basis now than it has been since the days of the Conqueror.
Footnote 2: Reports on the Second Ballot at Elections in Foreign Countries.
The ballot papers shall be examined and the returning officer, after rejecting any invalid ballot papers, shall divide the remaining papers into parcels according to the first preferences recorded for each candidate.
Whenever there is more than one vote recorded upon a ballot paper it becomes necessary to extract the particulars of each paper upon recording sheets.
The percentage of spoilt ballot papers due to all causes was 2.
At the first ballot the figures were as follows:-- M.
As, however, the ballot is secret and the result of the voting is not known until the close of the poll, some provision must be made to facilitate the equal grouping of the electors upon which fair representation depends.
A number is printed on the back of the ballot paper corresponding with that on the counterfoil.
The ballot papers transferred were placed in each case on the top of the papers already contained in the box of the candidate to whom the transfer was made.
Two assistants are required for the purpose of keeping a record of the various processes; two others for receiving and distributing the ballot papers.
In the same year at Brussels, where a second ballot took place in each of the five cantons, the Liberal minority captured every one of the forty-four seats.
When no further preference is indicated, place the ballot paper in the compartment marked "exhausted.
The alternative finally presented to Congress, if it was not to make an absolute surrender, was either to hold the South indefinitely under military subjection or to place the ballot in the hands of the Negro.
The grant of theballot to these millions of semi-savages and the riot of debauchery which has followed are crimes against human progress.
The life of our party demands that the negro be given the ballot and made the ruler of the South.
Wisconsin has a direct interest that the ballot shall be free and pure in Indiana, and Wisconsin and Indiana have a direct interest that the ballot shall be free and pure in all the States.
There is not one such precinct where the right of a Confederate soldier freely to cast the ballot of his choice would not be defended by the Union veterans of the war.
You have said to me that you are in favor of a free and equal ballot the country over.
A constitutional amendment, to which a great majority of our people gave their sanction, has removed the impediments which stood in the way of progressive legislation in the protection of an honest ballot in Indiana.
Your coming from another State and from distant homes testifies to the observing interest which you feel in those questions which are to be settled by the ballot in November.
It stands to-day for a pure, equal, honest ballotthe country over.
The right of every qualified elector to cast one free ballot and to have it honestly counted must not be questioned.
This question of a free, honestballot has crossed the Ohio River.
We must not entertain the delusion that our people have ceased to regard a free ballot and equal representation as the price of their allegiance to laws and to civil magistrates.
Such methods were probably found effective even where the ballot was used, but their success must have been even greater in trials for treason, at which voting by word of mouth was still employed.
The Former had already proved his sympathy with Gracchus, the latter had Just brought to an end an agitating tribunate, which had produced a successful ballot law and an abortive attempt to render the tribune re-eligible.
The poorest classes had been given the ballotwhen they wanted food and craved a less precarious sustenance than that afforded by the capricious benevolence of the rich.
On the matter of the ballot he was not so strong, but he did think "that the manly, straightforward way was for a voter to announce his vote and not be ashamed of his principles.
In drawing up our constitution, we deemed it best, in the interests of democracy, to do all voting by ballot and to exclude all proxies.
Emperor to universal suffrage and vote by ballot must result in a triumph over all the variations of free thought, by the unity which belongs to Order, represented through an able man at the head of the State?
If ever Mephistopheles revisit the earth, how he will laugh at Universal Suffrage and Vote by Ballot in an old country like France, as things to be admired by educated men, and adopted by friends of genuine freedom!
The men and women of this country--of the world--who believe that the ballot for woman means better government and the elevation of society to a higher plane, must ever recognize Susan B.
The opponents of prohibition, of course, massed themselves against putting the ballot in the hands of women.
Reading and writing are of inestimable value, but the ballot teaches what these can not teach.
Yes, but they are not; and if they were, without the ballot they would be powerless to effect the improvements they might find necessary.
Were the ballot in the hands of women, I am satisfied that the evils of intemperance would be greatly lessened; and I fear, without that ballot, we shall not succeed against the saloons and kindred evils in large cities.
Ay, sir, the ballotis the Columbiad of our political life, and every citizen who has it is a full-armed Monitor.
Mr. Fiero said woman was unfitted for the ballot because she was influenced by pity, passion and prejudice rather than by judgment.
A new ballot would only set forth in bolder relief the isolation of the Commune; and then, is the moment of the fight, when the battalion is decimated, deprived of its chief, the opportune time for insisting upon a regular promotion?
This confused incongruous ballot affirmed at least the republican idea.
But even before her vote has been proclaimed she heard coming forth from the provincial ballot boxes a savage cry of reaction.
Caucuses and primaries were packed, votes bought, ballot boxes stuffed and election returns falsified.
Azurma was the fifth one to draw, and when a black ballot was disclosed to her view, she uttered a cry of dismay, and staggered blindly from the spot.
As she lifted the ballot from the box a murmur went up from the assemblage.
