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Title: The Gill system of moral and civic training as exemplified in the school cities and school state at the State normal school, New Paltz, New York. A symposium by the faculty and students of the school, the author of the system and other educators
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Gill, Wilson L. (Wilson Lindsley), 1851-1941
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Publisher: New Paltz, N.Y. and New York city, The Patriot league
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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lowing way: 1. Nominations.—Each party presents a petition tothe election officer (city clerk) with the name of itscandidates. The party should nominate one or twocandidates more than it expects to elect, in order toprovide for good luck and vacancies. It also adds thename of an election judge. 2. The Tickets.—The city clerk then publishes thelists of candidates nominated on the different petitions.For example, the first party, having about twentyvoters, nominates three candidates, the second partynominates five, and the third party nominates six.The published tickets are as follows. Letters are usedfor the names of candidates : PARTY in. I KLM NO 3. How TO Vote.—Each voter has as many votesas there are candidates to be elected—in this examplehe has ten votes. He can cumulate his votes as hepleases. That is, he can give his ten votes to onecandidate; or he can give three votes to one, three toanother, and four to a third; or he can give one vote TY I. party II. A D B E C F G H
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Moral and Civic Training 33 to each of ten candidates; or he can scatter his votesin any way he pleases. If he wants his party to win,he had better cumulate all his votes on the candidatesof his own party. For example, a voter in Party I,might vote as follows: PARTY I. 2 A 5 B 3 C By voting in this way he gives two votes to A, fivevotes to B, and three votes to C, and gives ten votesto his party as a whole. 4. Counting the Votes.—Each party when its peti-tion is handed in, should at the same time hand in thename of an election judge. All the election judges ofthe different parties meet with the city clerk as anelection board. They count the votes and publish theresults of the election. This work is a very simpleproblem in division. But I will give an example,showing each step in the calculation. (i) They prepare a list of candidates and find thetotal number of votes cast for each candidate. (2) They add together the votes of all the candi-dates on the same party ticket. For example,

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