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 1     I,     VII|         VII.~ ~THE DEAD MAN'S VOTE.~ ~I do not think it necessary
 2     I,     VII|       green feathers were one vote ahead of us. "This is not
 3     I,     VII|    potter? and why did he not vote?" added my chief drummer. "
 4     I,     VII| poultry-dealer, who could not vote in his own name, voted as
 5     I,     VII|  identity was raised, and his vote was recorded.~ ~Still, this
 6     I,     VII|    consisted only of a single vote. If Richard III could offer "
 7     I,     VII|    offer "1,000 florins for a vote?"~ ~Somebody made the discovery
 8     I,     VII|   were willing to pay for his vote. All his life he had been
 9     I,     VII|   ever thought of getting his vote, still less had he himself
10     I,     VII|    dying man leave his bed to vote? But my drummers were not
11     I,     VII|     asked to whom he gave his vote, and he hold tight to his
12     I,     VII|     the tent and allow him to vote." This touching little piece
13     I,     VII|     not be made to repeat his vote, whereas my drummers were
14     I,     VII|       of their assertion, the vote was credited to me, and
15     I,     VII|  elected by a majority of one vote, my suffrages being 1,501
16     I,     VII|      for me. Itzig Maikäfer's vote was as sound as a nut and
17     I,     VII|      was the other dead man's vote - that of Tóth János, the
18     I,       X|    known who were entitled to vote at the meetings.~ ~And now
19     I,     XII|     practised in offering the vote of a dead man. The epithets "
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