3-021-480 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Elections in France: electors voting at the polling-place in the Faubourg St. Antoine, [in Paris], 1869. '...the elections passed off without the slightest disorder, and with only a moderate amount of excitement...Armed with his green voting-ticket, the elector presents himself at the polling-place...at the doorway he will probably be waylaid by the agents of the different candidates who will dart forward and offer him each a little square piece of white paper, having thereon the name of a particular candidate. The voter takes all the papers offered him, or only a single one; and, entering the bureau where the voting-urn - a square box, with a small slit on the top, so styled - is placed on a table, behind which several grave-looking gentlemen are seated, exhibits his green voting-card, screws up his voting-ticket, and deposits it in the box. His vote is recorded by an official, who places his initials against the voter's name in the election-lists'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.