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1824. April 24. Constitutional Code.
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Ch. X. Ministers Subordinate
§. 16. Locable who ——
How to maximize
correctness in votation.
Ch. X. Ministers Subordinate.
§. Locable who.
18.
Art. 18. Means of Secresy
employed.
1. By letter press alone
the opinions expressed:
by writing, the person
might be designated or
discovered.
2. Sheet folded, each
half covering the other.
3. Common receptacle, a
letter-box: voting papers
dropped in thro' a slit.
Thus of each it is known
that he has voted: — not
how. Of his having voted,
entry is forthwith
made in a book.
4. The box opened in
public by appointed
Scrutineers, and the
business instantly
dispatched. Thus, time
not allowed for discovery
of secret marks
known to this or that
19.
Art. 19. In this mode,
Candidate's height in
the scale will be as
the smallness of the
sum of the numbers
attached to his name.
Example. Candidates,
say 100: voters say 50.
If by all Candidates A
is placed at the top, 50
will express his rank:
if, at at the bottom,
1,000.
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§. Locable who.
19 (a)
Copy 7 May
(a) Voter's anxiety for
correctness of the
expression of his opinion
as between
Candidates — means of
removing it.
1. Among any members
regarded by him
as equal, drawing lots
which shall stand
highest.
2. Adding the numbers
which, if put one above
another, would
be employed: then,
dividing the sum by
the number of the
candidates, and
attaching the quotient
to the name of each.
In this way, the rank
given to others, whether
above or below
these, will not be affected. If instead of equal
numbers having cast the
same numbers were employed.
affected. The greater the denominator, employed, the greater will
be the degree of correctness.
20.
Art. 20. For determining
which to prefer,
the second or the open
mode, Legislature will,
if it sees fit, ordain
votation in the open
mode after do. in the
secret mode, but
before the result has
been notified or
ascertained.
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Ch. X. Ministers Subordinate
§. Locable who.
21.
Art. 21. For improving
the ground for judgment,
it may divide the
situations into two
classes: ordaining that
for exhibiting evidence,
of title to locability, by
rank in the scale, as
above, the result of the
secret mode shall
be referred to; in the
locations made for
the situations in one
class, the open mode
in the other.
22.
Art. 22. For the influence
given to such
examination and
assignment of rank
as to Locability and
location, see §. 11.
Remuneration.
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