Q. What must each political party do that it may get its
candidates before the people?
A. It must have its conventions and nominate the required number
of Electors.
Q. What are these Electors intended to represent?
A. The views of the party nominating them.
O. How frequently, and when is a Presidential election held?
A. Once in four years, on the Tuesday following the first Monday
in November, throughout all the States.
Q. What must each voter do, in the State of New York, that he may
cast a ballot for President and Vice-President?
A. He must hand to the inspectors of election a ballot upon, which
is printed the names of the thirty-five Electors.
Q. By whom are these votes to be canvassed (or counted)?
A. By the same officers that canvass other votes. In New York
State the inspectors of election canvass for their respective
election districts, and certify the same to the Board of County
Canvassers; the County Canvassers canvass for counties, and
certify to the State Canvassers; the State Canvassers canvass for
the State; and the Executive authority of each State causes three
lists of the Electors of such State to be made and certified and
delivered to the said Electors, on or before the first Wednesday
in December.
MEETING OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
Q. What must the Electors that have been declared elected then do?
A. I. They must meet on the first Wednesday in December succeeding
their election, at such place in each State as the Legislature
thereof shall designate (usually the capital), and vote for
President and Vice-President, one of whom shall not be an
inhabitant of the same State with themselves.
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