Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-10-09

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counted. a certifcatesshall be, drawn up on each
of the papers containing the poll list and tallies
or attached thereto, stating the number of votes
each person voted for has received, and designa-
ting the Office to fill which heswa voted for,
which number shall be written in words at full
length. Each certificate shall be aigned by the
Clerk, the judges and lnspector One of said
certificates, with the poll list. and tally paper to
which Il is attached, shall be- detained BY the
Inspector.s 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 balIots together with the other of said GER
tiicates, with the poll list and tally paper to
which it is attached, shall be sealed up by the
4 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, 1868, 20, p. 1913.
100. The said package shall be delivered to the
| County Clerk by 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 affidavit that the
package was delivered to him by of the
Judges (naming him, that it has not been out
of his possession since it was received, and has
undergone alteration while in his possession
| Tha al hall he indOr he ck
If sent by mail, it shall be mailed by one of the
Judges, and the Postmaster shall make on it
Endorsement that he received it from one of
the Judges, (namng him. Act of March 23
1850, Ss6.]
16l. 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. 1Same Act, 1911
1872. 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
| the returns and estimate the vote of such county
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 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
| 90 oh Of he m her
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 Is, 1861, Il, p 529.
PENALTIES MISCONDUCT
| OF ELECTIONS
1874. If any person SHALL directly indirect
| ly use any threats, menace, or force, any
| rupt means or device, at or previous to any cleo
ton held pursuant to this Act, towards any cleo
| tor, to hinder deter him from voting at such
election, shall attempt by any means whatev
er to awe, restrain, hinder. or disturb any cleo
tor in the free exercise of the right and suffrage
he shall npon conviction thereof be fined in any
sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. Act
| March %, 1850, gas.
| 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
ticket, such person informing giving such
elector to understand that it contains a name or
the name or names which are written or printed
| thereon, such person shall upon conviction there
| of be fined in any sum not less than fifty nor
more than FIVE hundred dollars. [Same Act, Sa9.
! 1856. If any person shall defraud any elector at
any such election by deceiving him and causing
him to vote for different person for any Office
that such elector desired or intended to vote for
or shall fraudulenty attempt to deceive, aud
cause such elector thus to vote for different
| for off han ha info nd deSi
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. Same
Act, Sl00.]
| 1877. If any person, not having the legal quail.
| ifcations of any elector, shall frauduently vote
or shall fraudulently 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, Sl0l.l
1888. If any elector shall vote more than once
at any election, or shall knowingly hand in two
| OF 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 sum
not exceeding FIVE hundred dollars. Same Act,
SlO2.]
| I89 If any inspector, judge or clerk of any
election, while acting as such, shall induce, or
attempt to induce, any elector, either by menace
or reward, or promise thereof to vote differently
from what such eector shall intend or desire to
vote, such person so offending shall, upon con-
vction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than
fifty more than FIVE hundred dollars. Same
Act, Slo3.]
100. If any inspector, judge, or clerk of an
election shall, previous to putting the ballot OF
any elector in the ballot-box, attempt to pry into
or find out any name or names on such ballot
which shall have been handed in by said elector
in folded form OF if any inspector, judge, or
clerk of any election shall open or suffer the
folded ballot of an elector which has been hand
ed in to the Board of Judges, to be opened or
examined into previous to putting the same into
the ballot-box; or if any inspector, judge or
clerk of an election shall make or place any
mark or devise on any folded ballot which has
been handed in to the Board of Judges by any
elector, with the view to ascertaining the name
} of any person or persons for whom such elector
shall have voted at any such election; or if any
inspector, judge or clerk of an election. without
the consent of the eleetor, shall disclose the
name of any person or persons which such in
J spector, judge or clerk shall have fraudulently
or illegally discovered to have been voted for be
such elector at any election, every such inspec-
tor, judge clerk of an election SO offending,
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any