Word: assemblymen
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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This "general ticket" or "block vote" method, which is used in New Jersey to elect blocks of state assemblymen by counties, in 1919 gave 37,386 Democratic voters of Essex Country 12 senators, 37,003 other voters none...
Nonetheless, the advantages will be tremendous. Thieves who desire to be immune from arrest need only array themselves as bearded assemblymen to pass unchallenged through the whole police force; poor factions--unable to support a lobby--may disguise themselves as representatives and vote in favor of their own bills. Indeed, the possibilities of disguise are so endless that the idea is bound to spread. It only remains for the lobbies to disguise themselves as the Ladies' Auxiliary to complete a tangle which even the great Sherlock Holmes could never unravel without the aid of a false nose...