Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1914 — ASSURES HONESTY OF VOTE [ARTICLE]

ASSURES HONESTY OF VOTE

French Method Beems Somewhat Complicated, but Doubtless It EfTec- * tually Eliminates Fraud. Have the French discovered the only honest way of getting dfre number of votes? The way of voting whlc#nas recently become a law is called "l’isoloir electoral.” The following is the description given by a Paris paper: More than 20,000 electors defiled before the urns in a district of Ivry for the election of a deputy. Before putting their votes into the urn they all passed through the isolator. When they entered, the voting room, after receiving a paper, which proved their right to vote, which they had taken to court the day before, according to the new law, the voters were each given an opaque gray envelope, with which they were allowed to go to the urn, but only after passing through one of the eight cabins put there for the voter to be able to choose his ticket freely, without anybody seeing him do it. A squad of policemen stood by as the men were about to enter the cabins, and told them what to do. "Put your vote in the envelope.” "Now go on the other side.” "Don’t try to seal the envelope.” And then the voter was allowed to throw his vote into the urn.