Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-13
THE ELECTION LAWS. !
The Law Prescribing the Quail
ficatIan of Elecrors.


vised Statutes, vol. 1st, page 543, provides
that mo person shall be permitted to vote
at any election unless he shall have been
an actual resident of the State for one year,
of the county for thirty days, and of the
township or ward in which he offers to
vote twenty days next preceding the cleo
tion The residence of person is declared
to be the place in which his habitation is
6zed. without any present intention of re-
moving therefrom, and to which, whenever
he is absent, he has the intention.of return
ing. aa'E Z e1o "a s3gli}.-.
"a person shall not be considered or held
to have lost his residence who shall leave
his home and go into another State or eoun-
ty OF this State, tor temporary purposes
merely, with an intention of returning ~
The Constitution requires that none but
free white male citizens of the United
States shall have the right of voting.
A person shall not be considered or held
to have gained residence in any county
of this cate into which he shall have come
for temporary purposes merely, without
the Intention of making such county his
home, but with the intention of leaving
the ssme;when heshall have gotten through
with the business that brought him into it.
If person remove to another State with
an intention to make it his permanent resi-
denee he shall be considered and held to
have lost his residence in this State.
If azperson remove to Eanother State
with an intention of remaining there for an
indefinite time, and as place of present
residence, he shall be considered and held
to have lost his residence in this State, not
withstanding he may entertain an inten-
tionft to return at some future period. The
place where married mans family re-
sides shall generally be considered and
held to be his residence; but If it is place
for temporary establishments Of his family,
or for transient objects, it shall be other
wise. Ma married man has his family tx
ed in one place, and he does his businessin
another,s the former shall be considered and
held to be the place of his residence The
mere intention to acquire a new residence
without the fact OF removal. shall avail
nothing; neither shall the fact of removal
without the Intention. 4 sa ..5 's+s 7e
.1fla person shall go into another State
and while there exercise the right of cit
izen by voting, he shall be considered and
held to havelost his residence in this State.
By section S5, page 546, Swan and Critch-
field, vol. 1st, it is provided that nothing in
the act before named, so far as the same re-
lateS to the length of time required of the
voter to reside In the township or ward
wherehe offers to vote, shall be held, taken
or construed to apply to any voter who is
the head of family who shall bona .,ide re-
move with his family from one ward into
another within the corporate limits of any
city within the State, or who shall remove
from one township to another within the
same county. '9 - u 's4 so'
s7e The 6 White Ticket y Law
The Legislature of last winter, in order
that men might vote their honest senti-
ments without the fear, favor or affection
of the bondholders who have heretofore
attempted to control them, enacted the
following law in, relation to Election
Tickets. In speaking of this law, the Gin
ci,snati COMMERCIAL is forced to admit that
it is "good law,n tor it "secures to the
voter, however poor and dependent, the
tull benefit of the secret ballot. 1t will
certainly be enforced, and it is of great con-
that it be fully attended to in
time" The Judges of Election will see to
it that the law is enforced, and that no
marked tickets, or those printed on any
thing else than white news printing paper,
be received or counted. This is the more
necessary, as we understand that tickets
printed on thin tissue paper, in violation of
the law, are already in circulation. This
is done to coerce certain employees of Re-
publicans to vote the Radical ticket. The
law is as follows: - 81 ~ ~
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Ohio, That it
shall be allaaoful for any person within
this State, at any election held in pur-
suance of law, TO MARK THE TICKET OF ANY
ELBCToR WITH THE I,STENTIoN OF AsCER-
HOW HE VOTED, OR TO MARK THE
TICKET OF ANY ELECTOR AND HAND THE |
SAME TO HIM TO VOTE AT ANY SUCH ELEC- /
TIoN FOR THE PURPOSE AFORESAID
asSEC. 2. That ALL BALLOTS VOTED AT
HELD IN PURSUANCE OF Law, |
SHALL BE WRITTEN ON PLAIN WHITE PAPER,
OR PRINTED WITH BLACK INK ON WHITE NEWS
PAPER, WITHOUT ANY DEVICE OR
MARK OF ANY DESCRIPTION TO DISTINGUISH
ONE. TICKET FROM ANOTHER, OR BY WHICH |
ONE TICKET MAY BE KNOWN FROM ANOTHER
BY IT'S sAPPEARANCE, except the words at the |
head or the ticket; and that it shall be UN-
LAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON TO PRINT F9R DIS |
AT THE POLLS OR DISTRIBUTE TO |
ANY ELECToR, OR VOTE ANY BALLOT WRIT
TEN Or PRINTED CONTRARY TO THE PRovI-l
5IoNs OF THIS ACT provided, that nothing
therein contained shall be construed to
prohibit the erasure, correction or inser-
lion of anysname by pencil mark or other
wise upon the face of the printed ballot"