Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1872 — Running la a Rut. [ARTICLE]

Running la a Rut.

Our election machinery reminds us ' of the man who went to mill on horse* i back with the corn in one end of tlye i bag and a stone in the other end~to balance-it, instead of dividing the grain. We ke< n one Election Board at work twelve hours receiving votes and then wear it out-to entire itreffi*“ ciency by requiring it to sit thirty-six hours counting them out, when the [ work should .be done during the wjhom we can induce to serve upon these Boar*!s is barbarous. Besjde. lt actually costs more than a better and niore humane system would. Adding': I to these objections the Tcsrf of time of , the tltousarids who wait for the news, I and *We have an overwhelming, argui.ment sliowiuyr the folly au<t. stupithty. 'of running in this old election law rut. The remedy is very simple.— I What we want to'do is-what the.man ' 1 going t<t.inill should have done—we i must divide the work. By providing a Counting Board for’preeincts where 'more than 2W votes—are I two ballot boxes, and these i boxes over for couirtrrfg when fifty • votes are received, the work could be dore, and the resblt known in an hour i or two after closing the polls. If the Legislature elected last Tuesday can ■ find time’ between the acts regulating I courts arid the practice thereirj, to i give tins little boon to the people, it! may repay the trouble and expense of election arid session.