SPAIN VOTER NO . 41 DOES HIS DUTY " FRANCO OR THE 
STREET CLEANER, / BOASTED AN OFFICIAL OF SPAIN'S MINISTRY OF THE 
INTERIOR, " EVERY VOTER IS ENTITLED TO THE SAME TREATMENT . 
" WELL, NOT EXACTLY . SOME 8,000,000 SPANISH " HEADS OF 
FAMILIES " WENT TO THE POLLS LAST WEEK IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS 
TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS FOR A LIST OF GOVERNMENT-APPROVED CANDIDATES . 
VOTER NO . 41 IN SECTION 9, QUARTER 5 OF MADRID'S 
REVISED UNIVERSITY DISTRICT STEPPED INTO A JCADILLAC FOR THE BRIEF RIDE 
FROM EL PARDO PALACE TO A TINY YELLOW SCHOOLHOUSE . THERE, 
UNDER THE GAZE OF HIS OWN OFFICIAL PORTRAIT, EL CAUDILLO GREETED 
MEMBERS OF THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION BOARD, WHO GRACIOUSLY WAIVED THE USUAL 
IDENTIFICATION PROCEDURE . FRANCO REACHED INTO AN INSIDE POCKET OF HIS 
DOUBLE-BREASTED DARK GREY SUIT, REMOVED AN ALREADY FILLED-IN BALLOT . HE 
HANDED IT TO THE BOARD PRESIDENT, WHO SOLEMNLY ANNOUNCED, " HIS 
EXCELLENCY FRANCISCO FRANCO BAHAMONDE, PROFESSION CHIEF OF STATE, MARRIED AND WITH 
RESIDENCE IN THE PALACE OF EL PARDO, VOTES, " AND DROPPED 
THE FOLDED PAPER IN A LANTERN-SHAPED GLASS BALLOT BOX . IT 
WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT DICTATOR FRANCO HAD CAST A BALLOT 
SINCE THE CIVIL WAR BEGAN IN 1936 . 