The great problem of election is how to ascertain the real will of those entitled to express an opinion or have a choice.

And all the arrangements for conducting elections have in view one of two things: either to facilitate voting or to prevent fraud.

The town serves as a convenient voting precinct.
Find out from the statutes or from the town manual or by inquiry, when the town meeting is held; how notice is given; how it is known who may vote; who are judges of election; how many clerks there are; how voting is done; how the votes are counted and the result made known; what reports of the election are made.

Give the reason for each provision.

Can a person vote by proxy?
Why?
What is to prevent a person from voting more than once?
If the polls are open seven hours, and it takes one minute to vote, how many persons can vote at one polling place?
What may be done in case there are more than that number of voters in the town?
How are road overseers elected, and in what part of the day?
Why then?
What other business is transacted at town meeting?
How do the people know how much money will be needed for the coming year's improvements?
How do they learn the nature and expense of last year's improvements?
Give four general reasons for our having towns.
* * * * * PRACTICAL WORK FOR STUDENTS.
I.ORGANIZING A TOWN.
Prepare in due form a petition to the proper authorities asking that a new town be organized.