The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-09-25

!, " VI Tue Judges vi tnS eIectlOn 10 De sat
lsfied that the person offering to vote i
a legal voter of the county which is show
at the top ofthe ballot.
In canvassIng the votes thus cast, th
judges shall reject all~vo'es east for any
officer of Il district, (whethcr Congress
ional, Judicial or otherwise not com
posed in part Of the county named at the
head of the ballot For example, Lee
Co. is in the First Congressional District
If ballot be headed Lee county, and il
1t the voter has cast vote for the Sec
ond Congressional District, such vote is
not to be counted so far IS Congressman
is concerned, and the same principl,
shall apply to all officers who are elected
by districts
The following is an example form O.
the ballot provided for in this Section
viz:
SCOTT COUNTY.
For Secretary If State,
For Treasurer Of State,
For Auditor Of State,
For Attorney General,
For Register Of State Land Office,
For Conyress-2d district,
For Judge Of District Court-7th dis
trct
For District Attorney-7th district,
/ For Clerk Of District Court,
and SO of other officers Where an off
Ger is elected from district, the ballot
shall specify the number of the district.
5 l6 The judges Of the election are
required unless they have been furnished
herewith by the Commissioner, to pre-
pare and have present at the polls two
poll books, having each of them suffi
cirnt column for the names and the
county Of the residence of the voters, a
blank leaves for the oaths, certificates
aud returns Said books may be sub.
stantiaIIy as follows:
Name OF voter Rcsid'ce voter No. Rcgt K Co.
John Smith. Lee co, Iowa 9TH Regr Co A.
John Jones, Scott co, Iowa llth RegtCo.B.
At the time Of voting, the elector must
declare his name and the name of the
county 10 which he had resided for sixty
days next preceding his entering the
military service, and also the number of
the regiment and company to which he
belongs, and these must be written down
by the Clerk on the poll books as above
shown. Each Clerk shall keep a poll
book SO that there may be double list
of voters. The electors shall deliver
their ballots to one of the judges who
shall deposit them in the ballot box, but
no clector shall vote at the same election
at two different polls and for no officers
except such as arc provided for by Sec,
ton 3, and the other provisions Of this
act
II. Any person offering to vote may
be challenged as unqualified by either of
the judges or by any person who is an
clector 10 this State, aud it is the duty
Of each Of the Judges to challenge any
person Offering to vote whom be knows
or suspects not to be duly qualified.
SIS. When any person is SO challcng-
ed, the judges shall read or explain to
him Sections |, and of this act and
may examine him as to his qualifications,
and if the person insists that he is quail
fed to vote and the challenge is not
withdrawn, one of the judges shall tender
to him the following oath: "You do
sclcmnly swear that you are citizen of
the United States; that you are twenty
one years of age as you verify believe;
that you have resided in the State of
Iowa six months, and in county
in said State sixty days next preceding
the time you entered the military service,
and that you have not voted at this cleo
tion;" and If he takes such oath his vote
shall be received
10. When the poll is closed, the
judges shall Immediately proceed to can
vass and ascertain the result.
S2O The canvass shall be public and
shall commence by comparison of the
poll lists from the beginning and cor
rection of any errors which may be found
therein, until they shall be found or made
to agree. If two or more ballots are found
so folded together as to present the ap-
pearance of a single ballot and to con-
vince the judges that they were cast as
one, tAcy shall not be counted, but they
shall have the words "rcjected as double
written upon them, be folded together
again anI kept as herein directed.
81 If at any stage of the canvass, a
ballot not stating for what Office the per
=, son therein ramed is voted for is found
in the box when officers of different
kinds arc to be elected, it is to be rejected
S22. If ballot be found containing
the names of more persons for an Office
than can be elected to that office and
such ballot form an excess above the nun
Der of voters, it shall be rejected as tc
that office (the cause of rejection being
endorsed thereon.) and disposed of as
hereinafter directed; and if it does not
form such excess, SO many of the names
irst in order, as are required shall be
counted
S23. As check in counting, each
clerk shall keep tally list
S24. A return in writing shall bt
made in each poll book setting forth, II
words at length, the whole number Of
ballots cast for each officer Except thos'
rejectcd) the name of each person votet
for, and the number of votes given tt
each person for each different Office; which
return shall be certified as correct, signec