How The French Vote
A correspondent of theLondon Timos, writing from Bordeaux, France, gives the following description of how eleetions are couducted in that country : "The process ia perfoctly simple and neat. Electora walk into the Mairie as men go on 'Change, and at the gate the friends of the candidate or his agenta offer a plain white paper with the candidate's name. Iu the hall where the votes are taken, the Mayor and his bureau, -without any civil or military guard, sit with the ballot-box before them. The elector offers his numbered elector's ticket, the Mayor tears off a corner of it, calis out the registered number (which is then crossed off by his secretarles), takes from the elector the white voting paper folded, and drops it into the um. In this way long files en queue pass on iu one even stream, and the process goes on with immense rapidity. The law forbids the presiding oftïcer to take a voting paper open, or in any way rnarked outwardly ; uo armed force is permittediu the voting hall ; the ballot-box has a doublé key, and must be opened immediately upon the cloae of the poll. Electora havo the right to be present without any iiiterruption from the moment the box is fir&t focked up, after examination, until the final counting out of all the voting papers in it, and in practice the whole process goes on under the eyes of the public. The only possible falsification of the process, even in vt'ry benighted dÍ6tricts, involves a plain breach of law under the eyes of electors ; and, since the ncw Chamber will in auy case havo a republican majority, whioh will be the sole judge of all disputed elections, and every elector has an absolute right of objection, if the voting is anywhere improperly maneuvered, it can only be in places wherc there is not a single republican elector who has the spirit to enter a protest."
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