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...merely little men to vote for bigger men, but to choose directly their own representatives to the new Russian 1,143-member parliament, the Verkovnyi Soviet or Supreme Council; to vote not in public by a show of hands, but in private in a red-curtained booth, by secret ballot according to their own convictions...
...final and more effective way of getting out the vote the state press made an astonishing last-minute somersault. Soviet editors have been telling Russians for months about how the secret ballot, "that great boon conferred by Stalin, Our Sun," will protect them. The 100,000,000 prospective voters have been warned that of course they must not write their names on these secret ballots, that any ballot would be invalidated if so signed or marked that the voter revealed his identity. Suddenly upon this point the Soviet press reversed, proclaimed last week under banner headlines that every voter...
...handbill urging his election which said: "Our people are confident of their fate and their country because they now have experienced and tested their police and detective forces!" The voters also did their best, in Stalin's district they wrote slogans like HURRAH FOR COMRADE STALIN! on their ballot envelopes, and elsewhere only a few such extremists as those in Uzbekistan went so far as to murder their wives or strip them naked in order to save them from contamination in the new rite of universal suffrage...
...night last week in the 105th Field Artillery Armory in The Bronx a weary group of men turned up their visors, pushed back their chairs on which they had been sitting for 24 days. They had just completed a count of 2,013,101 ballots. It had been going on since November 5, the longest and biggest counting job ever undertaken in any U. S. city. New York had replaced its old board of aldermen with a new city council, and the council's members were the first city officials ever to be elected by proportional representation...
Voting will be by secret ballot for the first time in Soviet history. This week in electoral districts all over Russia citizens were rounded up nightly to be addressed by the only candidate for whom their secret ballots can be cast...