Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-10-07
inconrenient in practice. [Aet March 81, 1866

1856. If the vote of any person be challenged
on the ground that he has been convicted of an
! infamous crime, disfranchised by any Court
of competent jurisdiction he shall not be requir-
ed to answer any questions respecting such al
| legged conviction and in the absence of any au-
thentcated record of such facts, it may be COM
petent for two disinterested witnesses upon oath
to prove the same. Act March %, 1850, S3l,
p. lOl.
l56. When the polls are closed, proclamation
thereof shall be made at the place of voting, and
no votes shall be afterwards received. Same
Act, S32l
OF COUNTING cANvAssISG, DECLARING THE RESULTS MAKING
RETURNS, GIVING CERTIFICATES ELECTION.
| l57. As soon the polls are closed on the af-
ternoon of the day of election, the Judges shall
open 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
may be held until all the ballots are counted ;
the counting of ballots shall, in all cases, be
public. The ballots shall be taken out carefully,
one by one, by the Inspector 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 office to be filed,
and the name of each person voted for for such
Office and shall keep the number of votes by tai
lies, as they are read aloud by the Inspector
Judge. The counting Of the votes shall be con-
tnued without adjournment until all are count
ed. Act March 23, 1850, p. l0r, S33.]
1853. 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 determine to their satisfac-
ton the person voted for and the Office intended
[Same Act, S34.]
l59. AS soon as all the votes are read off and
counted, certificate shall be drawn up each
of the papers containing the poll lists and tallies,
or attached thereto, stating the number of votes
each person voted for has received, and desgna-
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 en-
tered upon the tally list by the Clerks and said
ballots, together with the other of said certif-
Gates, with the poll list and tally paper to which
it is attached, shall be sealed up by the Inspect
or in the presence of the Judges and Clerks, and
indorsed g Elections Returns and be directed
and delivered or sent by the Inspector to the
County Clerk in the county in which the elect
ion is held, and the said ballots shall be kept
for at least six months by said Clerk and if
any person be of an 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 TAmend-
ment, April 20, 1863, Is, p. 353.
100. 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 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 ndorsed 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. Act of March 23,
1850, S86.]
l6l. 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 can be satisfactorily un-
derstood. [Same Act, 1911
162. 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 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 FL, p. 529.
1874. If any person shall, directly or Indirect
! ly, use any threats, menace, force or any cor
rupt means or Device at or previous to any cleo
tion held pursuant to this Act, towards any cleo
tor, to hinder or 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 d.suffrage
he shall npon conviction thereof be fined in any
sum not exceeding five hundred dollars Act
March %, 1850, s98.]
1885, If any person shall furnish any eector
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
| or xUh od
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, goo. ]
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