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[...] day. Formerly the poll both in counties and boroughs was kept open fifteen days, and there was only one polling-place even for the great county of York. The time was successively [...]
[...] even for the great county of York. The time was successively limited to nine days, two days, and one day, and increased con veniences for taking the poll were provided. As regards boroughs, the existing law is that the polling shall begin at eight o'clock in the forenoon, and shall continue during one day only, and no [...]
[...] speaks of “such one day,” but the antecedent of “such" has been swept away. However, we understand it to mean the day ap pointed under the Ballot Act for taking the poll. Thus the law is:– 1) The polling shall commence at 8 A.M. 2) It shall continue during one day only. [...]
[...] om exercising their franchise freely and indifferently, and that therefore the election ought to be held void. It was proved that at one of the polling-booths, upon the resignation of another man, a person named Dickson was appointed to be poll-clerk. Dickson went to the polling-booth, and took his seat at first in a place [...]
[...] administering the bribery oath, a cry was raised that “Time is up"; that the hustings were speedily demolished; that the Mayor refused to take the vote, and that the poll was finally closed before four o'clock in the afternoon. It was contended that the poll was improperly and unlawfully closed, that the proceedings were in [...]
[...] The majority was six, and only this one case of Woods was brought forward. Evidence was given on behalf of the sitting member to show that the poll was not closed before four o'clock. The Com mittee .."that the poll was closed before four o'clock; that the proceedings were interrupted by violence; that, in con [...]
[...] sequence of such interruption, Woods was prevented from voting; that the election was void; and that the Returning Officer should not finally have closed the poll. This case, therefore, went upon two grounds, and it cannot be regarded as a clear authority that the closing of the poll five minutes before four [...]
[...] put cases of accidental and partial infringement of the Act where the decision would be doubtful. Thus much, however, is clear, that either the hours of polling ought to be extended, or very complete arrangements ought to be made for taking the poll with out delay to voters. Such occurrences as those of Hackney and [...]
[...] The Discontented Woman. The Clubs at Election Time. M. Michelet. The Latest Scheme of Swiss Federal Reform. Parasites of the Press. Hours of Polling. American and English Theatres. [...]
[...] of those who predicted that the Ballot, by making politics uninteresting, would lead to abstention from voting. At the last general election Mr. CHILDERs polled 913 and Major WATERHOUSE, the other sitting member, polled 9oo. This time Mr. CHILDERS polled 658 and Lord PollingtoN polled 578. [...]
[...] hundred electors voted, they may be confidently expected to be still more serious in larger constituencies. The first difficulty is that of finding proper polling-places. The schoolrooms were freely put in requisition; but, in the first place, school rooms are not as a rule so constructed as to be at all suited [...]
[...] shall be through an opening different from that by which their ingress takes place. Schoolrooms are apt to have only one door, and accordingly at one of the Pontefract polling places it was found necessary to take a window out and to make those who had voted first walk up an incline of planks [...]
[...] voters. Much time was consumed in getting the votes of these men duly recorded. Even the constables present to keep order had to be turned out of the polling-place while the process was going on, and no other voter could be allowed to be present, or the votes of the illiterate might [...]
[...] have become improperly known. The consequence was, that although four compartments had been provided in the polling-places, it was found impossible to fill them, as their occupants might have had to be turned out at any moment in compliance with the requirements of some one whose educa [...]
[...] very dull, calculated that the voting took much longer than it did. One correspondent gave the average time as from five to seven minutes for each voter. But there were five polling places altogether, and as there were as nearly as possible 1,250 voters, this gave an average of 250 voters at each polling [...]
[...] places altogether, and as there were as nearly as possible 1,250 voters, this gave an average of 250 voters at each polling place. The poll lasted eight hours, and thus 30 persons voted in each polling-place every hour, or, in other words, the average time consumed in voting was only two minutes. The average [...]
[...] the Mayor of Pontefract exactly three hours to count under 1,250 votes. The result of elections in large constituencies cannot therefore be known for a long time after the poll has closed, and the toil imposed on Returning Officers will be immense. In this respect some improvement in the machinery [...]
[...] with which the proceedings were conducted. Many incidents occurred that thrilled the hearts of spectators. Agents of the old Papal police came up and voted at polling-places presided over by victims of the tyranny of which they had been the instruments. Papal gendarmes—a tribe peculiarly obnoxi [...]
[...] subject under the sun is highly improbable, but the signatures can hardly be taken as a safe index of even clerical opinion. And what the general result would be of polling the Catholic laity, either in Germany or elsewhere, as to their devotion to Jesuit º and interests, there can, we should imagine, be very little [...]
[...] derived from the election at Pontefract. Everything seems to have been done to give the Ballot a fair trial. There were polling-places in abundance, and care was taken that the officials at each station should not be overwhelmed by an undue influx of voters. The reception of from two to three [...]
[...] tation allows a safe margin for delays, unless indeed there should happen to be a rush of illiterates towards the close of the poll. The voting-places were fitted up so that electors could easily pass in at one door, record their votes in snug seclusion, and pass out at the other end of the building. [...]
[...] carefully rehearsed. On both sides the agents seem to have resolved to do what they could to get rid of secrecy of election—as far, at least, as the progress of the polling was concerned. Information which it is illegal to solieit inside a polling-place may be legally obtained outside, and [...]
[...] servatives also sent out cards, but, with a more profound knowledge of human nature and its weaknesses, posted men at every polling-place to collect the tickets, thus sparing the voters the trouble of seeking out and going to a Committee room. The ticket-collectors kept a record, not only of the [...]
[...] room. The ticket-collectors kept a record, not only of the tickets they received, but of the whole number of voters who passed through the polling-places, and they were thus enabled to estimate the numbers on each side. A voter who had no card or who gave an unfavourable answer was of course put [...]
[...] the whole thing as a foolish hoax, were found at the close of the day to be tolerably exact. The Conservatives claimed a majority of 709 for their candidate, and when the poll was officially declared he had a majority of 718. The plan of the Liberals for ascertaining the course of the voting proved to be [...]
[...] curiosity is a feeling of considerable influence, and it can hardly be doubted that it induced some voters to visit the polling-place for the sake of seeing what an election by ballot was like. It is stated that seventy or eighty blank voting papers were found in the boxes. Nothing could be quieter [...]
[...] papers were found in the boxes. Nothing could be quieter than the nomination, but towards evening on the day of the polling there were some mild symptoms of political efferves [...]
[...] cated system of recording votes will work altogether smoothly in a large constituency at a time of excitement. The sudden irruption towards the close of the poll of a tumultuous throng of angry voters, irritated at being kept waiting, and afraid lest they should lose their votes, would be apt to disturb official [...]
[...] Where an army has been defeated a large proportion of the combatants has usually been rendered incapable of further service. But a defeat in the Legislature or at the polls carries no such consequence with it. It does but register the relative strength of the opposing parties at a given moment. [...]
[...] Three successive tribunals of ascending dignity delivered conflicting judgments on the lawfulness of paying for the conveyance of a voter to the poll, and it was finally deter mined by the House of Lords, in accordance with the opinion of a majority of the judges, that the candidate who had [...]
[...] The law reserves the rights of voters otherwise qualified who may be absent from the polling place about the time of the election, but if their zeal or their pecuniary means are insufficient to put them in motion, the resident con [...]
[...] the impossibility of providing electors with a conveyance which, in most instances, is a superfluous luxury. In counties, although the polling places are distributed over a considerable space, farmers are essentially a locomotive class when inclination or private business calls them from home. [...]
[...] perform. No county voter finds himself unable to attend a sale of stock or an agricultural show; and if he is seized with a sudden fit of domesticity on the day of polling, it may be presumed that no strong political convictions are doomed to suppression by his absence from the booth. The difficulty [...]
[...] town. At a late election for Marylebone, the candidates incurred an enormous expense for cabs and omnibuses to save their constituents the trouble of walking to the poll. As long as the new Act is in force, there will, in the event of future contests, be several thousand claimants for the more [...]
[...] election lawyers. If it is absolutely necessary to bring every possible voter to the poll, the difficulty which is supposed to exist might certainly be overcome by more than one simple contrivance. Lord RoBERT CECIL's suggestion of taking the water to the [...]
[...] perhaps involve some risk of malversation on the part of subordinate agents. No such objection applies to the multi plication of polling-places where the existing accommodation is found to be insufficient. Contests which formerly occupied six weeks, or, within more recent memory, a fortnight, are [...]
[...] now decided in the course of a single morning; and it would be perfectly easy in any county or borough to double the number of booths and of poll-clerks. The cost ought in all instances to be paid out of the rates, if only for the purpose of reminding the voters that they are performing a public [...]
[...] corruption in peace. It is by no means certain that, even. under a system of secret voting, protected patriots would walk to the polling-booth, if the law authorized the use of eleemosynary cabs ; but the political hygeist is well aware that the intellects to which his arguments are addressed by [...]
[...] impression being prevalent at Pontefract, as elsewhere, that the Reform Bill of the preceding year would largely increase the number of Liberal votes. The result of the polling showed that matters were very much as they had been before. The contest of 1868 was a political one; that of last week was simply personal. [...]
[...] The controversy was a very pretty one; there was the lie with circumstance, and the lie direct; “much virtue lay in an If, but If the only peacemaker” was absent. On the day of the poll appeared Lord Pollington's last contribution to this literature unique in electioneering annals, in which he says:– [...]
[...] The contrast in point of education between the two divisions of Pontefract and Knottingley is brought out very strongly by an analysis of the poll. In the district of Pontefract 1,009 electors were on the register; of these 703 voted, 86 being illiterate. In the district of Knottingley 932 electors were on the register, of [...]
[...] were on the register; of these 703 voted, 86 being illiterate. In the district of Knottingley 932 electors were on the register, of whom only 545 polled, the number of illiterates being 1 15. Twelve per cent. appear therefore to be uneducated in Pontefract, whereas the proportion is as high as, 21 per cent, in Knottingley. [...]
[...] tion has been already called in our columns to the small number of votes recorded in comparison with the election of 1868, when 132 more votes polled in the district of Pontefract, and 177 more in that of Knottingley. The friends of the Ballot have en deavoured to ascribe this indifference to special circumstances, but [...]
[...] pressed lest there should prove to be a deficiency of accom modation, but they proved wholly groundless. During the last hour more bottles of |. entered the polling-booths than voters, and the interest in the proceedings }. completely died away. Advantage was taken of the permission accorded by the Act to use [...]
[...] and the interest in the proceedings }. completely died away. Advantage was taken of the permission accorded by the Act to use school-rooms to a very great extent, as out of the five polling places four were held in schools of various denominations, the fifth being in the Town Hall. This was far from being satis [...]
[...] places four were held in schools of various denominations, the fifth being in the Town Hall. This was far from being satis factory, as in the district of IXnottingley the three polling-places were in the centre of the town of Knottingley, all within a few hundred yards of each other, and consequently more than a mile [...]
[...] distant from the houses of many of the voters. This objection did not apply in so marked a degree to the district of Pontefract, although a polling-place on the Tanshelf side of the town would have been more convenient. The calculations made concerning the average number of voters who polled at the different booths [...]
[...] there were only loš votes recorded. With regard to the illiterate voter much dissatisfaction pre vailed. An educated voter, polling quickly and meeting with no obstruction, could record his vote in half a minute; on the other hand, one gentleman, who must be reckoned as the king of illite [...]
[...] by which this was established. HARDIMENT drew two hundred pounds out of a bank, went to a public-house shortly before the close of the poll, where a number of hesitating electors were waiting, and was seen giving these men a pound apiece. Nothing could be more simple or more clear; but [...]
[...] minority, but afterwards he began to gain, and between three and half-past three no less than 504 votes were recorded for him, chiefly by voters who came to the poll unmistakeably drunk. It was also proved that shortly before half-past three HARDIMENT spent his 200l. as above stated. The Commis [...]
[...] the enormity of a state of things in which five hundred voters are bought at the last moment, and brought up drunk to the poll, the whole attempt to enforce purity of elections will be turned into a farce. [...]
[...] because it has been conducted in a tainted atmosphere. In the same way, if there has been general intimidation— if, as at Drogheda, a reign of terror prevails on the polling day, and voters can only vote at considerable risk, or are deterred from voting by fear—then the whole election goes [...]
[...] great moral harm, corrupts a town for years, brutalizes the poor wretches who are persuaded by gold and beer to go to the poll, and degrades still more the bribers who supply the cash and the liquor. But, putting aside all con siderations of this kind, what, as Mr. Baron MARTIN asked, [...]
[...] that bribery has been committed can be kept dark. Gangs of drunken men at various public-houses comparing notes after the close of the poll, and mad with jealousy at finding that some of them have got more than others, will not so far keep their feelings to themselves that no one on the [...]
[...] nevertheless the working people, against the wish of their employers, returned a stranger, who had formerly been a Dissenting preacher, at the head of the poll. Mr. GLADSTONE himself has more than once intimated that his opinion was wavering on the question, and it is therefore possible that [...]
[...] be perfectly compatible with extensive bribery. In some large towns, at the late election, hundreds of newly enfranchised voters were ready to sell themselves on the polling day for a few shillings a head. The risk of such an arrangement, and the conscientious feeling of candidates, prevented, it may be [...]
[...] dation of the Electoral Boards seems ingeniously devised to give every facility for vesting the complete command of the polls in the party which has the best organization; and in the rural constituencies there was no organization at all except such as was controlled by the Government. It must be [...]
[...] record constitutes an historical chapter of which Cumberland may well be proud.” The Lowthers were thoroughly beaten, and Graham was returned for the division at the head of the poll. In the Grey Ministry he presided over the Admiralty until the Irish question, which had all along been the danger of this, as of most [...]
[...] THE OXFORD POLL-B00K, 1865. HE University of Oxford has published its Poll-book of the recent election. We purpose taking a review of the facts [...]
[...] merely premise that the machinery of votirº-papers, now for the first time used, accounts for the unusually later prºportion of this highly sporatic constituency being polled win a s shown by the figures. Aud we will aud, that prºvably in no election which has [...]
[...] cised their suffrage out of a constituency of a little over 4,000. It is rare to find a local constituency, whether of borough or county, polling 60 per cent. of its voters; and when we allow for the numbers of those who were sick, imbecile, or beyond the seas of Britain (in which latter case the voting [...]
[...] and perhaps, in many cases, in a county. In further illustration of the interest taken in the contest should be mentioned the fact that 668 votes, or nearly one-fifth of the total polled, were given in erson, notwithstanding the possible accommodation of the Post ſlice. This would be a very significant fraction in Term time, [...]
[...] In pursuing the analysis into the Colleges and Halls, we cannot do better than present our readers with a copy of the last page of the Poll-book itself. From this it will appear that in three Col leges—Lincoln, All Souls, and Jesus—the numbers polled for Gladstone and Hardy respectively were exactly equal, being [...]
[...] in the first-named 63, in the second 41, and in the last 42 for each. In another, Exeter— which sent, next to Christ Church, the largest number of votes to the poll — they were very nearly balanced, being 164 to 156, giving thus a majority of 8 for Gladstone. In eight Colleges, and in the two smallest Halls, New [...]
[...] 3,661. The corresponding total in 1859 was 191o ; and in 1847, we believe, within a few units of the same number. The numbers polled by Mr. Hardy alone, being 1,904, all but equalled the total of those previous occasions; and the contrivance of voting-papers has not quite doubled the number of electors who tendered §. [...]
[...] necessarily given in person; and since the voters in person this year amounted to 668, we see that not quite three times that number were brought to the poll when a vote could only be tendered by personal appearance. To pass from the consideration of the voters in the gross to [...]
[...] hardly worth while to remark further on the analysis of the votes according to Colleges. There is, however, one statement which does not rest on the authority of the poll-book, but which we be lieve may be regarded as genuine—namely, that among the yºunger constituents who came flocking in on the “ . ” in the [...]
[...] ST. LEONARD’S-ON-SEA. — A Married CLERGYMAN (Cambridge Graduate, 1st Class Poll. 1860), residing at St. Leonard's, offers a comfortable Home to a few PUPI LS, whom he would carefully Pºpºfºlº for the Public Schools, the Universities, or their respective Vocations in after life. Terms, 100 Guineas per annum, [...]
[...] returned, and the total Population. This Register is printed on writing-paper for noting Alterations, and recording the Result of the Polling. [...]
[...] the two great Political Parties throughout the United Kingdom. It will be accompanied by a complete List of all the Candidates who went to the Poll, distinguishing the Politics of each, and the Numbers polled. [...]
