ON VOTING BY MAIL
Busy men who are often called from home will be interested in the law enacted by the last legislature providing for voting by mail. The bill became a law with the signature of the governor. It is called the "Absent Voter's Law." This law provides that any legal voter who expects to be absent on the day of election may apply to the clerk of the court or the city clerk not more than 15 days, not less than one day, preceding the election for a blank requisition for an official ballot. This blank must be filled out and sworn to by the voter. If it is a primary ballot it must designate the voter's party affiliations. The clerk of the court or city clerk is then required, by the provisions of the law, to furnish the voter with a ballot. This must be marked by the voter and mailed to the city clerk or county recorder in time to read its destination at least one day before the election. It is provided that this ballot shall be "folded and sealed by said voter in private and secretly," but just how this secrecy is to be enforced is not made clear. The official is required to file the voter's application and his sealed ballot with the judges of election in the proper precinct, and the judges check the voter's name on their list and deposit the ballot, unopened, in the ballot box to be counted as other ballots are counted. 