Here are some of the matters submitted to the voters of a certain Western city at one election: to pension firemen; to grant a street railway franchise; to abolish grade crossings; to exempt certain city officers from being citizens of the United States; to define the powers of the municipal court; to exempt certain officers from the civil service rules; to regulate the sale of bonds; to change the method of passing ordinances; to allow the city to acquire property outside the city limits, etc. Is the average voter likely, or unlikely, to know much about things of this sort? Footnote 33: In 1921 the voters of North Dakota recalled Governor Frazier from office before the expiry of his term. Footnote 34: See p. 31. Footnote 35: In England full suffrage has been granted only to women who are thirty years of age or over. This was purposely done in order that the male voters should be in the majority. Footnote 36: New York State in 1921 joined the list of states which impose the literacy test. Footnote 37: Various classes of people, although qualified by citizenship, age, and residence, are debarred from voting on other grounds. Among these are insane persons, criminals, and, in some states, those who have been convicted of bribery or other serious offences against the election laws. In some states, also, soldiers of the regular army and enlisted men of the navy are denied the right to register as voters on the ground that they are not really residents but merely representatives of the national government temporarily quartered within the state boundaries. Civil officials of the national government are not debarred. Footnote 38: This gives the party workers an opportunity to investigate all suspicious names on the list and be ready for action when election day comes. Footnote 39: Sometimes annual registration is required in the cities but not in small towns or rural districts. In Ohio there is an annual registration in cities of over 100,000 population; a registration every four years in smaller cities, and no general registration at all in the rural districts. In the latter the same list is used year after year with such individual changes as may be necessary. Footnote 40: In most cases they take the voter’s say-so as sufficient proof of his party allegiance. Footnote 41: At the New York state primaries of September, 1920, the candidate who won the Democratic nomination for governor received fewer than 200,000 votes; at the November election he received more than a million, and yet was not elected. Footnote 42: In a few cities, for example in Boston, there are no primaries before the municipal elections. Candidates for the office of mayor may be nominated by presenting a petition signed by not fewer than 5000 qualified voters; candidates for the city council must have at least 2500 signatures. Footnote 43: