Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1842-10-04

! loving questions: q
lsf. Have you resided in this state for
one year Immediately preceding this .
lectionl
2ud. Have you been absent from this
state within the year Immediately pEecss-
ding this election? Hyes, then,
81. When yau left, did yon leave for q
temporary purpose, with the design oRre-
turning, or for the purpose of remaiaiuR
awayf
4th. Did you, while absent, look upon
and regard this state as your heme3
9th. Did you while abseul, vote in aRy
other statei
Third If the person be challenged -
1s unqualified, on the ground that 5s'iN
lpol resident of The county, township, or
ward, where he offers to vote, the jud Ies
or one them, shall put the following quess
tiOns:
lst. When did you last come into lhiF
connty7
2nd When you come into this county,
did YOU come for Temporary purpose,
merely, or for the purpose of making it
your home?
Sd. Did you come into this county for
the purpose oS,voting'in' this eehhiyf
4tb. Are YOU nov an actual resident
Of this township or ward7 =.
Fourth: Ifthe person [bef challenged
as unqualified, on, ihe ground that he is
not twenty one years of age, the judges,f
J or one of them, shall put the following
question; are you twenty one years of age
to the best Of your knowledge aud beIieff
The judges of the election, or one Of
them, shall put all such other questions
10 the persons challenged, under the re-
spective heads afOIssid, as may be nee
esslry to test his qualifications as an. Q.
leclor at that election.
Sec. IA. If the person, challenged as a.
forsaid ,shal.refuse 10 answer, fully, any
questions which shall be put 10 him as a.
fOFsaid, the judges shall reject toehis
vote
Sec. IS. II the challenge be not With
drawn after the person offering TO vote
shall have answered the questions put to
him as aforsaid, one of the judges Of the
election shall tender to him The follow
ing oath: "You do sOlemnly swear (os
affirm :hat you are citizen of the Uni.
ted States, of The age of twenty-one years
that you have been an inhabitaRt Of this
state for Ons year next preceding this
lection; that you are nov an actual resi-.
dent of this township or ward, and that
you have not voted at { his election
Sec. l6. ifaHy person shall refuse to
take the oath, or affirmation, so tender.
ed, his vote shall be rejected; provided
that after such oath shall have beeg
taken, the judges may, nevertheless, res
fuse 10 permit such person TO vote, il they
shall be satisfied, from record evidence,
or other legal testimony adduced be fore
them, that he is not legal voter, and
they are hereby authorized TO administer
the necessary oaths or afirmatiops to'all
witnesses brought before them, TO testify
to the qualifications Of person offering
| to vote.
Sec. II. Whenever any persons vote
shall be received after having taken the
oath prescribed in the fifteenth section Of
this act, ii shall be the duty oil the clerks
of the election to write on the poll book,
at the end OF such PERSONS name, the
word "sworn." Il
Sec. ls. 1t shall be the duty df eaeh
Judge of the election to challenge every
person Offering to vote, whom he shall
know or suspect, not to be duly quali6N
ed as an elector. -.
Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the
judges Of the election, or one of them,
Immediately before proclamation is made
Of the opening OF the polls, to open the
ballot boxes in the presence of the Peo-
pie there assembled, and turn them up4
side down, so as to empty them of every
rhingthat may be in them, and then lock
them; and they shall not be Te-Opensf
until for the pdrpnse of co unting the bal
lots therein, at the close Of the polls. !.
I Sec. 90. Any person, who shall, afer
proclamation made, of the opening of
the polls, fraudulently put ballot or
ticket into the ballot box, shall, on con-
viction thereof, be imprisoned in the pen.
itentlary, and kept at hard labor, not mbrs
than three years nor less than one year.
Sec. 81. Any Judge Of the election,
who shall, after proclamation made, the
openng of the polls,put ballot Or ticket
into The ballot box, except his own balIof,or'
such as may be received in the regular
discharge ofhis duty, shall, on conviction
thereof, be imprisoned in the. Penitentia-
ry, aud kept at hard labor, not moro than
five years nor less than one year. tF4,:
Sec. %. The judge of the electfons
hall. IL requested, permit the respective
candidates, or one or more, not exceed
ing three Of their friends. to be present
- in the room where thsjjudgss are, during
the time Of receiving and counting Oqf
the ballots. So
Sec 2S. Ifauy person, challengsd g,
uroualified to v5te, shatlbe guilty Of
vsilful and corrupt false,sw4Arings 0S arr