Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Voting is the very basis of our governments, Federal, State, and municipal. If, therefore, the voting systems generally used through out the country hitherto can be shown to be gravely defective and to be easily replaceable by correct systems, we have at once the explanation of some of the worst political evils from which we suffer and the key to political reform that is truly fundamental.