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The use of the term “Australian ballot” in the United States is very misleading, because we have not only departed from the South Australian statute, but have enacted ununiform ballot laws in the respective states. Eliminating minor differences, three types of the ballot have developed in the United States: the office-group, the party-column, and the separate-party ballots.

The pattern statute for those states which have adopted the office-group form of the ballots was the Massachusetts act of 1888. This law provided for the blanket form of the ballot, the names of the candidates for each office being

The model of the party-column type was the Indiana statute of 1889. This also adopted the blanket form of the ballot, but provided that all nominations of any party or group of petitioners should be