The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-08-06 00:00:00

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THE NEW BALLOT ACT IPOPULARLY
EXPLAINED.

3314 —35---aral 36, entitled "AD Act to
*mead the law nista,' to procedure at Perlismootary
sad ilusitilpal Blootions," is now to foyer, ard therefore
it la Interesting to know exactly what Is vet by
Ballot Borne have an Idea a beer* &ha black end
whits balls—others of perctored erodr. Now (h.. Act
Davi "The bellot of tech voter elan seariri of •paper
showleg the 1:1111101 std deeeriptioes of
The returning cMnt ',nisi's himself with clique
books having a ouunterloti st the I It, bad on the tiget
a farm thus given in the schedule:—
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Counter-
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On the tight- hand side of this let toe voter will place a
eras this x against the name or i eel.' for whom he
voles. On the tack will be sprinted Pic. corresponding
to • similar No. on the face it the counterfoil. "The
• on receiving the ballot paper, shall forthwiih
proceed into on* of ti • oompaitwenta in the polling
elation, and there math his paler, aril fold It up so as
to °moral his yore, and shall then pot lite hello% paper,
es
folded up, into the ballot box; i.e shall vote without
sodas delay, and stall ,uit the pot log atatioo as soon
as he hes put his ballot paper lute the ballot box."
Clause 2, however requires that before depositing this
paper in the bee be .stall show to the returning officer
the (11461 mark at the beck. Before the voting ppm
le delivered to the voter it will be "marked" on both
Meese with en ,fileiel mark" which the returning officer
Mt. keep secret, and not use nain for lieeen Sears.
Besides theiniimber printed on the beak, and on the
foam of the coeuterfoll, and the official mark on both
sidle the number of such voter on the reenter will be
marked shoe on the sounterfoil. This is intended am a
clue In ore of any question being raised after the poll
against • vote as the ground of personation, bribery,
or other inegmlarity. -The becieseity of having some
hook open wrongdoing oomi pelted the legislature to make
tea provision for detection, although at the riak of
somewhet impairing the complete and perfect stormy
whisk the set Wends to throw around the voter and his
vote. Omer, however, In which it will be neemeary to
lases • vote will be so rare. and the tracking will
be so evidently • matter of justice, that no honest
voter need fear that his vote will ever be exposed. In
thie first place the voter will go to • polling station,
Is whisk will be • number of oompartmente—sinollar,
we may assume, to the boxes at • Tele.creph Office—
▪ ens such oompartment will be proiided for every
150 voters entitled to vote at such polite( station.
Having marked his paper in this compartment, and
folded it Igo as to ooticeet his vote, ht will, in obedience
to clause 25, which we have cited at length above Put
Ids ballot paper into the tallot box, which is to he so
ecostrocited that the ballot lepers can be iittroduned
therein, bot cannot be withdrawn therif. oat without
Ike box being unlocked.'
A. soon as practicable after the close of the poll the
presidia( officer is to foreard the ballot box, tO•
unused aid spoilt and tendered papers, the marktd
riolOsio Of the register, end the counterfoils of the ballot
papers, all sealed with his own seal, and those of the
agouti of the candidate., to the returning officer, who,
Is the presence of appointed agents, shell, as soon as
le after the atom of the poll, proceed to coact
• Mee. Upon the completion of the minting he is
to seal ep the ballot paper', after having compared
them with the ballot paper account sent by the presid-
ing officer and those, with the already sealed c.nintar•
foils. he is to transmit to the Clerk of the Crown in
Chaneery, who ia to preserve all the desemients relating
Se an elegitieD for one year, and then, airless otherwise
divested by an order of the House of Commons, or •
Jades of 0011 of Her liejesty's Superior Omuta, he late
&am theas. And no person wijl be allowed to
this exempt under such order, to be granted on
boa oath that the inspection or production of
web ballot papers is required for the purpose of testi-
nada( or imaintaiaing • promarnition for an armies to
Walks to ballot papers, or for the puma" of • petition
queeldesdn any election or return. Nor will anyone
be allowed to loepeet the ocanterfoils but upon such
order. In counting the votes the returning officer is
"lie keep the hallos papers with their faces upward.,"
to "mix the whole of the ballot papers contained in
the and "to take alt proper peeomitions for
peevetiting soy person from geeing the Lumbers printed
en
the beck of such papers."
lb will, therefore, be neat to an impoesibility, if not
• pedal impossibility, that the vote of on perticular
pariah shall ever be known. The returning officer
eoo. will know the number on the counterfoil, cornea-
wish the No. at the Leek of the ballot paper;
itireitU sot sap Me bark of a, paper r the vote is
glees, aid therefore if I could curry in he 'gaud a par-
Meader number, he ouoii not t II how that number
mated. Nothing abort of an offence for which the
voter 'said properly be exposed sad punished will ever
reveal Ids vote, and • year after he has given it ail
knee el It will be destroyed.
The new sot abolishes the old faros of nominations
end skewed heeds. In Dorelteiter the change slll put
• stop to • *man% and rather amusing euatom. It
bee Men the prudes hitherto for the candidates for
the hereagh of Doeshesten to letroduee, nominate, and
speak in favour of thetneelves—• proceeding which
ameneelly gsa. rise to some plesentry and good
bimasoared badinage. • nominator and emonder are
OM required, mid, in addition, eight registered electors
to meat to the nominalioc, but this ls to be in
Whoa the writ Is issued, the Returning Officer, in •
lowely within two days, and in • borough on the day on
whisk he resolves the writ, is to give nodes that he
@hal premed to se eleetloo, and, in the case of • °minty
eieedea. hoe to ssod wadi notice touts Postmaster of
seek polling place, who is to publish it al
witless are usually published. The electionmesalles is to be 'not later limn tbe ninth dey
Rik, the giiy on which be receives the writ, with an
letervel of not less than three clear day. after the day
eft Which be gives the ootioe and the day of election,
siad, la the erase of • borough, not later then WI fourth
day mow ede day on which he receives the writ, with
as interval of not bee thee two clear days between the
day as whisk be gives the Orrice and the day of
eleMism."
The pies* of eleolloo is to be • oonveoient room mid
the Num sash two hours betwesu ten and three as the
ife•arning Moor may appoint; and the candidate, his
=ffand seconder, and one other porno selected
eandidate, "sod oo other p, exoept for the
of emulating the =
Returning Officer, shall he en.
&Mead the proceedings.'
lithe the election Is sot contested, at the expiration 01
sae hoot the Returning Moor shall declare the omen.
dates Wile may stand nominated to be elected, and
Vishises *sir names to the Clerk of the Crown in Can-
Is 6 omie of • contest he is to give nodes of the
soil
of the day, and of the namee of the candidates,
and the ow of • comity he Ls to send soot notlo-s to
re!dleater of the Principal post office of the town
6. wkly. le situate a place of eleou in, which the post-
mortem is to send, trim of charge, by telegraph to the
telegraph Stations ix the county.
All the &the notese required to be given by the
Rgograleg cora •r• to be by advertisements, placards,
liesdbille, or sash other means as he thinks beet o•leu-
Wed to Weed Lamaist/oh to the electors.
awry ihelarang Officer's clerk or agent is required to
make • etatatory dealaratioa of seamy, and every pu-
ma ceentritmedag the provisions of Section 4, which
ostatas is the warp of voting," is liable, on summon
agaeledma, to impriseonmat for any term not exoeedlog
nellsOhn with or withoet herd labour:

ATTEMPTED TRIPLE IIURIAR.
A OM caved Robert Wawa is ia ereetoly at fel him,
shamed with atatioritina to =ardor a IF.. Bradbury,
with whom be eohabited ;0100 thie father of the woman,
meiMr. Nog, a nolghboar, who rap to timir ssibatimw.
Tbwitomiceaer atria Imhof sod ditaahter with a butcher
sad stabbed Rive, with a bulk Wye, Lid
Kr& /Seigniory ato daeaeronasly wooded.

SINGULAR COISFINSION OF MURDER.
Oa Tweeds, afternoon, Idle. Lag, • very reepretable
looting y.ag woman, was charged Were the Bich-
mead 'magistrates, oa her owe eonfession. with imaging
OM des* of • gauss roan named Frank Martin. She
Stated WS early on Illoaday morning she met her
~Wart Merlin sad weot with him to Woolwich.
Tito afterwards seat to Itiohmood-pull, and there be
oillooopOod to take tiberties with her She reacted sod
prima Ida tato lb* welter. rine saw him rise three'
times, osa Wu saw him DO more. She made no
mace to aye he., sad raised no slum. The Roomed,
who Bois no defame. was remanded.

TUN OM/ at Waders bays made Moir appeuana• at

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Tba still of llsears. Odds., *Men manufacturers, sear
Whin% took Its is Friday. Forty thou•and spindle'
win gaileard, widths damage le estimated at £40,000.
K,. Jolts' WA, ths well known solicitor, of &Wait, has
sawed Waimea to ths electors of Loadoederry. Ifs mit
Mb • Ortaiwellisit Protestant, and • hater of Popish,
Prolawlasit, Id Probytasisn cad t.
L•DI BOIL —Ta• Ihrsibioness of Bute win &noticed
• Imeogay moraine with orates fever, and although for
a ewe saii symptoms laduatei I certain tomtit of
wiwortty, ibis 'audition wits qtiokly followed by 'iridium's
Oat tits atom of Lb. liffeo.seu sr is assessing a more
Issagyaaat biews. We are now glad to be abl• to state on
saigseetty, that her ladyship is progreaulna most favour
sdit Sowards mover,. —hum"
V Amu 01 oLD NiliVerarria.—Dsling a resent
severe arbiter soto•body dlaisovesoi that
balwerilltssessimb of Weakish' old nesrepapare atiobad
livalear statl• o asealiimet beelelverlag ; it eh* Kiment
NM mof as year, WWI Wog online in the absence
ii glashicha. wcwiebedy elms heatosnd oat that seerepapert
Bake the periodos of an We este. V4tak tas titer-
aisalstar at lig In the etude the *Miner, refrigerator
dlierly fade is Iss shwas of kiwis' the be. in in un-
la#l,6l sasta ; bat this, we are sainted, say be 11000 in
by treeloping thw Moak I. • amnia. of
Used with ianseL In Use swam thay
distinguish themselves by do periersease
of orelbse of • adoesuous eismossor. It was oily
the Ober day we read that • espy of the Dsily
lidepreph, bole( bees sdndidatsred by • itlislall•vous
Iliablor te as atria In the Z xdogical °mum, triumphed
over tit, oilypo aerial digestive faculties of
11. hird."Mitelsro the rat-sorbs; ssinaluction was
hued kiwi la its stoinimpb. And • is • weeks previously
IP patiennie sod lb wit* travelling to lersaiden
braelwg boss robbed a all slair portetaions, wore
be • awes el OM bodes Ada (isoludisg • tor-
Mee sow ot prostailog about
iI lII' aNMs to %to db.