DEAR SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith and to recommend for publication a historical summary of American ballot laws for the past twenty years, with a more minute analytic digest of the provisions of existing laws on this subject in every state. The monograph presents facts only. There is no attempt at criticism, discussion or comparison.

Very respectfully

JAMES I. WYER, JR
Director

STATE OF NEW YORK EDUCATION DEPARTMENT COMMISSIONER'S ROOM

This voluminous bulletin covers a summary of all American ballot laws enacted in the last twenty years. The subject is of sufficient importance and the work seems to have been sufficiently well done to justify such a State as New York in going to the expense of providing the information for all interested. Publication is approved this 25th day of October, 1910.

Commissioner of Education

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Entered as second-class matter June 24, 1908, at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y., under

the act of July 16, 1894

A COMPARATIVE TABULAR DIGEST OF THE BALLOT LAWS OF THE FORTY

SIX STATES AND OF THE TERRITORIES OF ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO, AS

IN FORCE NOVEMBER 8th, 1910; AND A BRIEF CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY OF

CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE BALLOT LAWS ENACTED BY EACH OF THESE

STATES AND TERRITORIES DURING THE LAST TWENTY YEARS

The following monograph deals with the ballot laws of the several
states of the Union and of the territories of Arizona and New
Mexico as they stood at the time of the Congressional elections
of November 8th, 1910. The chronological survey (Part 1) in-
cludes all acts passed at the sessions of the several state legislatures
in 1910, and the tabular digest (Part 3), as well as Parts 3A and
3B, are compiled as of November 8th, 1910.

Where the word "ballots" is employed it is to be understood
as referring only to ballots used for the election of public officers.
Primary election ballots are not included within the scope of this
monograph.

The word "ballot," moreover, is to be understood as excluding
ballots used at special elections. Such ballots, whether the special
election is for the purpose of filling a vacancy in a public office
or for the purpose of voting upon some question submitted by

1As the 1910 session of the Vermont legislature was not yet completed in January,

1911, when this monograph went to press, it was impossible to include any references

thereto.

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