One Hundred Years of Solitude

males over twenty-one the
blue ballots with the names of
the Conservative candidates
and the red ballots with the
names of the Liberal
candidates. On the eve of the
elections Don Apolinar
Moscote himself read a
decree that prohibited the sale
of alcoholic beverages and
the gathering together of
more than three people who
were not of the same family.
The elections took place