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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 48
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and the third, 86 percent. (In I! 159 districts In 1911 a Hingle voter constituted the /Inst class.) 5. Methods of exercising the Franchise. screened voting booths A. persons except election officers allowed in the voting room, no electioneering within a certain distance of the polling place, laborers 'ora their employment for the purpose of votSubstantially voting B. are for the benefit of the working classes. C. In the German booth. Voters are therefore exposed pressure and intimidation. D. The Prussian elections are not held on Sundays as in France, and the law does not secure to the working classes a right to absent themselves from their employment for the purpose of voting. Moreover, the ancient system of viva voce voting prevails. The intimidation to which the voters are thus exposed deters large numbers from voting. (In 1903, 77 percent of the voters refrained from exercising the franchise in the Prussian elections). Compare the following from Treitschke: "The secret ballot is the shabbiest trick that was ever proposed in the name of liberalism." (Politics II, 199). Note that in Germany a strong and effective pressure is exerted by the government upon the voters, in behalf of the candidates whom it desires to be elected. Required Reading: 283-291. Lowell 12
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