How is the election conducted?

On a publicly announced and scheduled day, the people who are to choose, called voters, meet at various authorized locations called the polls: here, officials are stationed called inspectors, who oversee receptacles called ballot boxes, and each person who votes puts into a hole in the top of these boxes a piece of paper with the names of the persons whom he chooses written or printed on it. These pieces of paper are afterwards examined and counted by the inspectors, who keep a tallied account of the names voted for and the number of votes given by the people of each state. The persons having the greatest number of votes are chosen. Due to technological advances, there are some slight differences in the mode of holding elections in the different states, but it is the same in every important particular.