Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-10-24

or COUNTING cAsvAsMsa, DsclAnISe im assuIs, MAKING
RrfuRxs, AHD GIVING cxaTUIcAfD ot tI1cfIoH.
1877. As soon as the polls are closed on the af-
ternoou of the day of election, the Judges shall
omen the ballot box and commence counting the
votes and in no case shall the ballot box be
removed from the room in which any election
NAV be held until all the ballots are counted !;
.hs 'count;na Of ballots shah in all cases be pub
lie. The ballots shall be taken ont carefully, one
nv one. by the Inspector or one Of the Judges,
who shall open them, and read aloud the name
of each person contained therein, and the Office
for which every such person is voted for. Each
Clerk shall write down each ofce to be filled, and
the name of each person voted for for such office,
and shall keep the number of votes by tallies, as
they are read aloud by the Inspector or Judge.
The counting of the votes shall be continued
without adjournment until all are counted. Act
March %, 1850, p. l0l, S33.
l5s. If two tickets are found folded together,
they shall both be rejected and if more persons
are designated on any ticket for any Office than
are to be elected for such Office, such part of the
ticket shall not be counted for any of them but
no ticket shall be lost for want of form, if the
Board of Judges can determine to their satisfac-
ton the person voted for and the ONCE intended.
[Same Act, S34.
l59 As soon as all the votes are read of and
counted, a certificate shall be drawn up on each
of the papers containing the poll list and talies,
or attached thereto, stating the number of votes
each person voted for has received, and designa-
ting the Office to fill which he was voted for,
which number shall be written in words at full
length Each certificate shall be signed by the
Clerk, the Judges and Inspector. One of said
certificates with the poll list, and tally paper to
which it is attached, shall be detained by the
Inspector, and preserved by him at least six
months. The ballot shall be strung upon cord
or thread by the Inspector during the counting
of the ballots, in the order in which they are
entered upon the tally list by the Clerks; and
said ballots together with the other of said GER
tifcates, with the poll list and tally paper to
which it is attached, shall be sealed up by the
Inspector in the presence of the Judges and
Clerks and indorsed " Election Returns" and be
directed and delivered or sent by the Inspector
to the County Clerk of the county in which the
election is held, and the said ballots shall be
kept for at least six months by said Clerk and
if any person be of opinion that the vote of any
precinct shall not have been correctly counted,
he may appear on the day appointed for the
Board of Supervisors to open the returns, and
demand recount of the vote of said precinct;
and the Board of Supervisors shall proceed to
recount the vote of the precinct that is SO claim
ed to have been incorrectly counted. Amend
ment, April 20, 1863,S5, p. 353.
l60 The said package shall be delivered to the
County Clerk by one Of the Judges or Clerks of
Election In person, or may be sent by private
hand or by mail. If sent by private hand, the
person delivering it shall, before the County
Clerk, take and subscribe an affidavit that the
package was delivered to him by one of the
Judges (naming him, that it has not been out
of his possession since it was received, and has
undergone no alteration while in his possession.
The affidavit shall be indorsed on the package.
If sent by mail, it shall be mailed by one of the
Judges, and the Postmaster shall make on it an
Endorsement that he received it from one of
the Judges, (naming him) Tact of March %,
lei. No tally paper, poll list or certificate, re-
turned from any election, shall be set aside or
rejected for want of form, nor on account of not
being strictly in accordance with the directions
of this Act, if the same be satisfactorily un-
derstood. [Same Act, S37.1
l62. The Board of Supervisors Of each county
shall meet at their usual place of meeting on the
first Monday after each election to canvass the
election returns, and if the returns from each
precinct of the county or township where polls
were opened at such election shall not have been
received by the county Clerk at that time, then
said Board shall adjourn from time to time until
said returns shall be received, but not beyond
the second Monday after such election, and the
said Board shall then proceed, in public, to open
or township for each person voted for, and for
and against each proposition voted upon at such
election, and declare the result thereof. The
clerk of said Board shall, at such meeting, enter
on the records of such Board q statement of the
result Of such election, containing the names of
the persons voted for and the propositions voted
upon; the Office to fill which each person was
voted for the number of votes given at each
precinct TO each of such persons, and for and
against each of such propositions the number
of votes given in the county to each of such per-
sons, and for and against each of such PROPOSE
tions, and the whole number of votes cast in said
county. amendment, May l8, 1861, IL, p. 529.
PENALTIES MISCONDUCT AFFECTING FREEDOM AND PURITY
ELECTIONS
1874. If any person shall, directly or indirect
ly, use any threats, menace, or force, or any cor
rupt means or device, at or previous to any cleo
tion held pursuant to this Act, towards any elec-
tor, to hinder or deter him from voting at such
election, or shall attempt by any means whatev-
er to awe, restrain, hinder, or disturb any elec-
tor in the free exercise of the right and suffrage
he shall upon conviction thereof be fined in any
sum not exceeding FIVE hundred dollars. Act
March %, 1850, S9S.
1876. If any person shall furnish any elector
wishing to vote at any election held pursuant to
the provisions of this Act, who cannot read, with
a ticket, such person informing or giving such
elector to understand that it contains name or
names written or printed thereon different from
the name or names which are written printed
thereon, such person shallupon conviction there
of be fined in any sum not less than fifty nor
more than five hundred dollars. Same Act, s99.
1856. If any person shall defraud any elector at
any such election by deceiving him and causing
him to vote for a different person for any Office
that such elector desired intended to vote for,
or shall fraudulently attempt to deceive, and
cause such elector thus to vote for Q different
person for any Office than he intended and desir-
ed to vote for, such person upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than
fifty nor more than FIVE hundred dollars. GSame
Act, SlO0.1
1877. If any person, not having the legal quail.
ications of any elector, shall fraudulently vote,
shall fraudulenily attempt to vote at any cleo
ton, such person on conviction thereof shall be
fined in any sum not less than twenty nor more
than two hundred dollars. Same Act, 3l0l.]
1888. If any elector shall vote more than once
at any election or shall knowingly hand in two
or more tickets folded together, or shall attempt
to vote more than once at the same election, he
shall on conviction thereof be fined in any sup
not exceeding five hundred dollars. [Same Act,
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