1819 May 18

Disfranchise

Ballot

J.B.s Mode

9

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Of any such official person the only possible use is the preventing the voter from dropping into the slit of the Receiving box more such voting Cards than one. For if to the satisfaction of all concerned this can be prevented, namely /for example/ by the place in which, for the inspection of the bystanders the card between the time of its being taken out of the choosing-box and the time of its being dropped into the Receiving box, the card is held up to public view, the time during which it is held

Note

up to view suppose /say/ five, ten or fifteen seconds of time, and the /his/ posture during that time say holding it up at arm’s length above his head, together with the dimensions of the slit in the Receiving-box into which it is dropt, it can be rendered sufficiently certain that he has not dropt in more voting cards than one, see[?] nothing is left for any such specially appointed Inspector to do, and that part of the machinery is useless.