Excerpt from The Schoolhouse as the Polling Place The reason for citing the experience of a principal appointed to serve his community as town clerk, instead of giving the experience of a principal appointed for service merely in connection with an election, by way Of introduction to a discussion of the advantages of combining the Office of voting clerk with that of public-school principal, is not that there are not school principals who have been appointed to serve at polling places. According to the latest report received by the community center bureau of the University of Wisconsin, the principals at Algoma, De Forest, Iron Belt, Lublin, Medford, Muscoda, Newburg, and Oostburg, Wis, have rendered this service during the past year. The reason for giving, instead, the experience of a man who has combined the Office of town clerk with that of principal is that this office, like that of village or city clerk, is, 'in its unified and nonpartisan character, analogous to the office of voting clerk as this office is likely to be constituted when its potential character is appreciated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.