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Updated: May 14, 2025
Finally, a fact as notorious in Switzerland as vote-buying in America, a large number of citizens who are hostile to a proposed law may fear to record an adverse opinion by signing a Referendum list. Their signatures may be seen and the unveiling of their sentiments imperil their means of livelihood. Zurich furnishes the example of the cantons having the obligatory Referendum.
Further, it uses up local campaign money that ought to be spent in hiring workers at the polls, which is the polite phrase for vote-buying as "retaining-fee" is the polite phrase for bribe. I decided against the tour and for the highly expensive but always admirable and profitable "pilgrimage plan".
I dare say you're wondering what all these generalities have to do with vote-buying in Tuscarora. I'll tell you.
"For instance, I never could vote for a candidate with mutton-chop whiskers. And fancy having to decide between two women!" "Vote-buying would have a scope which staggers the imagination." The comment set her thoughts running on the accusations of corruption which were bandied from lip to lip during this campaign. "Are many votes really bought?" she asked. "Yes, many," Shelby answered frankly.
Still, the 'Shelby Base-ball Club' is as big a nuisance. Three thousand legitimate dollars," he repeated. "We now come to the illegitimate." The older man winced. Shelby was too frank for him at times. While he recognized that vote-buying was of occasion necessary for party success, he made it his boast between his conscience and himself that he had never directly taken part in it.
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