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Kentucky Absentee registration is now permitted only in cities and towns having a population of less than 5,000 inhabitants. Not less than ten days before election day elector may make written application for a certificate to the county clerk. The application must give the elector's name, age, residence, voting precinct or ward, state that he is a qualified voter there, the name of the political party with which he is affiliated, and that he is unavoidably absent from his ward or precinct on the last general registration held there. The application must be signed by the applicant...
Missouri--In cities having from 10,000 to 100,000 inhabitants, the elector may have his name placed on the registration list at any time before the board of revision meets, by filing with the registrar of the precinct in which he is a voter his affidavit made before some officer authorized by the laws of the state to administer oaths, setting forth the fact that he is a legal voter in that precinct, stating his place of residence, and that he was prevented from registering on the registration days because of absence from the city...
...Constitution assigns to each State the same number of electors as the State has Congressmen. When electors were first chosen by popular vote, many a Legislature provided that people should vote for two electors at large-corresponding to their Senators-and one elector from their Congressional district, corresponding to their Representative. But as party politics developed, it was discovered that a State's importance in national politics was emphasized if all its electors could be won by one party or another. Thus came the final transformation and the practice that is universal today. In each State, each party names...
John R. Tally, Mississippi Democrat, nominee for presidential elector (resigned). Reason: Prohibition...
...family was fitted and welded, smoothed and polished, so was the Fortune. Little by little, Meyer Amschel wormed his way into the financial counsels of William IV, Elector of Hesse, until at length he held the strings of that ruler's considerable money bags. The needs of princes first, and later the needs of governments, were the opportunities of the Rothschilds. The wars of the Allies against Napoleon, the collection of the French indemnity, the efforts of Metternich to crush every outbreak of liberal ideas-all these required money. The Rothschilds provided it, at a profit...