calls out only 958,000 voters.

Repugnance to voting still exists.

"Ninety times out of a hundred, on asking: 'Citizen, how did the Electoral Assembly of your canton go off ?' they would reply (in patois): 'Me, citizen?
why should I go there?
They have a good deal of trouble in getting along together.' Or, 'What would you?
Only a few will come; honest people will stay at home!'" (Meissner, "Voyage a Paris," towards the end of 1795.)] [Footnote 3320: Stalin easily found a remedy.

He obliged all to vote and falsified the count so that 99% now voted for him and his men.

(SR).] [Footnote 3321: "Archives Nationales," CII.