The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1844-10-25
Ohio Election Lac.
AN ACT TO PRESERVE THE PURITY OF
ELECTIONS.

Passed March 20, 1871 I0olt effect Oct ], 1911.
SECTION l. Be it enacted Jy the General is
gcn6ly of the Stae Of Ohio, That the provisions
Of this act shall have reference and be applicable
to all elections hereafter to be holden for governor,
sheriff, coroner, county auditor, county assessor,
county commissioners, county treasurer, county
recorder, county surveyor, prosecuting attorney,
all township Officers senators and representatives
to the general assembly, representatives 10 congress,
and electors of president and vice president OF the
United States.
SEC. 2. The judges of the election, in deter
mining the residence of person Offering to vote,
shall be governed by the following rules, far as
they may be applicable
First: That place shall be considered and held
to be the residence OF person in which his
habitation is fixed, without any present intention
of removing thereirom, and to which whenever
he is absent he has the intention of returning:
Second: \ person shall not be considered to
have lost his residence, who shall leave his home
AID go into another state, Or county Of this state,
for temporary purposes merely, with an intention
Of returning.
Third a person shall not be considered or held
to have gained a residence in any county of this
state, into which he shall come for temporary
purposes merely, without the intention Of making
such county his home, but with the intention of
leaving the same, when be shall have gotten
through with the business that brought him into
it,
Fourth If a person remove to another state
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dence, he shall be considered aud held to have lost
his residence in this state.
Filth: If person remove to another state with
al intention OF remaining there for an indefinite
time, and Us place Of present residence, he shall
be considered and held to have lost his residence
in this state, notwithstanding he may entertain an
intention to return a. some future period.
SIKH: The place where married mans family
resides, shall generally be considered and held to
be lis residence; but if it is place of temporary
establishment for lis family, or for transient OBJ
, jccts, il shall be olhcrwlse
Seycn,h II married man has his family in one
! place, and he does lis business III another, the
former shall be considered and held to be the place
oil his residence.
e Eighth: The mere intention to acquire new
- residence, without the fact Of removal shall avail
nothing; neither shall the fact Of removal without
the iuteution.
! Ninth: II person shall 90 into another state
and while there exercise the right of a citizen by
voting, he shall be considered aud held to have lost
q his residence in this state.
C SEC. 8. Each eIector shall in full view of the
4 people assembled at the polls, where he offers 10
i vote, deliver in pcIson to of the judges Of the
election, single ballot or piece ofPaper, on which
shall be written printed, the names of the per.
d sons voted for, with pertinent designation CT the
Il Office which he or they may be Intended to fill;
but clector shall vote except in the township or
. ward, in which he actually resides.
t SEC. 4, Any person who shall willfully vote
. in any township, or ward, in which he does not
: actually reside, which township or ward, shall be
0 in The county Of which he is resident, shall, on
i conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the county
jaiI OF the proper county, not more than six months
nor less than one month
Sec. 5. Any person, being a resident OF this
l. state, who shall go come, into any county, and
r vote in such county, rot being resident thereof
shall on conviction thereof be imprisoned il the
pentcntary, and kept at hard labor, not more than
three years nor less than one year.
SEC 6 Any person who shall vote more than
b once, at the same election, shall on conviction
thereof, be imprisoned in the penitenliary, and
kept at hard labor not than five years nor less
y than one year.
@ SEC. I. Any resident of anotherstatc who shall
vote in this state, shall, on conviction thereof, be
@ imprisoned in the penitentary aad kept at hard
labor, not more than five years nor less than one
r year.
. SEC. 8. Any person who shall vote, who shall
not have been resident of this state for one year
Immediately preceding the election, or who at the
time OF the election is not twenty one years of age,
knowing that he is not twenty one years OF age;
or who is not a citizen Of the United States,
J knowing that he is not such citizen; or who being
disqualified by law, by reason of his conviction of
some infamous crime, and shall not have been
pardoned and restored 10 all the rights of citizen
shall conviction thereof be Imprisoned in the
county Jail of the proper County, not more than six
months, nor less than one month
SEC. 8. Any person who shall procure, aid,
assist counsel or advise another to give his vote,
knowing that such other person has not been a
a resident Of this state for one year Immediately
preceding the election; or thatsat the time of the
election he is not twenty years of age; or that
he is not a citizen of the United States OF that he
is not duly qualified from other disability, TO vote
at the place where and time when the vote is to
be given, shall on conviction thereof, be fined in
any sum not exceeding FIVE hundred dollars nor
less than one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned
in the county Jail of the proper county, not more
than six months nor less than one month.
SEC. 10. Any person who shall procure, aid,
assist, counsel, or advise, another to 20 Or come