. Voting in the field; a forgotten chapter of the civil war . ILLINOIS 253 votes of volunteers; that the Commissioners shouldprepare suitable poll books; and that they shouldmake lists of the votes received; and that when thepolls were closed the Commissioners should canvassthe votes, make duplicate copies of the returns ofthe election, and one of them should be kept by oneof the judges and the other forwarded in some safeand convenient way to the President of the Conven-tion and to the Secretary of State to be canvassed.^ This provision only authorized soldiers to voteupon the adoption or rej
. Voting in the field; a forgotten chapter of the civil war . ILLINOIS 253 votes of volunteers; that the Commissioners shouldprepare suitable poll books; and that they shouldmake lists of the votes received; and that when thepolls were closed the Commissioners should canvassthe votes, make duplicate copies of the returns ofthe election, and one of them should be kept by oneof the judges and the other forwarded in some safeand convenient way to the President of the Conven-tion and to the Secretary of State to be canvassed.^ This provision only authorized soldiers to voteupon the adoption or rejection of the Constitution,and the Constitution itself provided, as did the exist-ing Constitution, that a qualified voter should voteonly in the election district where he resides. ^ The Constitution was rejected, there being 151,-264 against it, and 126,739 for it. The soldiers votewas taken upon the Constitution, and 10,151 votedagainst it, and 1,687 for it. This vote is probablyincluded in the vote given above for and againstthe Constitution. As the Con
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