This isn't even the worst of it.I get the impression Middlesex was a lot more socially diffuse from that.
Thanks! I'll have a map of the winner by town for, say, the congressional single-winner elections, but this will have to do for the technically dual-winner system used here for presidential electors. (The General Court chose one from each district, then two at-large out of everyone who hadn't gotten any votes, which had to be patched as soon as they received the results, since literally everyone they could think of was disqualified.)I'm really liking this way of mapping nonpartisan elections, @Caprice .
I've forgotten the details, but what was that one early 19th century presidential election where it was something like 'each district elects electors who elect the presidential electors but there are also runoffs and statewide electors and...'Massachusetts used to have a disaster of an election code.
I've forgotten the details, but what was that one early 19th century presidential election where it was something like 'each district elects electors who elect the presidential electors but there are also runoffs and statewide electors and...'
Not sure why there weren't any votes polled from Cape Cod, but oh well.
Perhaps. There was a property qualification for voting, as follows:Could it be to do with the town charter reserving all land ownership to the Province, with the inhabitants only holding the land in tenure?
Every male person, being twenty-one years of age, and resident in any particular town in this commonwealth for the space of one year next preceding, having a freehold estate within the same town, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote. . .
Perhaps. There was a property qualification for voting, as follows:
The act of incorporation provided that inhabitants of Provincetown could be land holders, but not land owners. They received a quit claim to their property, but the Province retained the title. The land was to be used as it had been from the beginning of the colony — a place for the making of fish. All resources, including the trees, could be used for that purpose.[8] In 1893 the Massachusetts General Court changed the Town's charter, giving the townspeople deeds to the properties they held, while still reserving unoccupied areas.[12]
I know what they mean by this, but I'm just imagining people trying to breed fish on land but wondering why they keep... opposite of drowning. Or, like, trying to construct fish like some sort of half-rate Frankenstein.. . .a place for the making of fish.
I can only assume Massachusetts used that system where the candidate's name was written on the ballot you entered, and the people counting the votes laid them end to end without remembering how much bigger John Hancock's signature was.