Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-08-26

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l59. As soon as all the votes arc read off and
. counted, certificate shall be drawn up on each
Aof the papers containing the poll lists and lies
or attached thereto, stating the number of votes
each person voted for has received, and designa-
ting the Office to Gil 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 a cord
or thread by the Inspector during the counting
of the ballots, in the order in which they are en-
tered upon the tally list by the Clerks and said
ballots together with the other of said certG-
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 " 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 10y 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. Amend
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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 10y 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,
! II 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, (namng him) Act of March %,
1850, 5a6.l
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, $37l
lG2 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 10y 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 aud the propositions voted
upon; the Office to fill which each person was
voted Tor; the number of votes given at each
| urCCiuCt each Of gupl and far an Il
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 49, 1861, Up. 529. |
184 If any person SHALL directly or indirect
lyi use any threats, menace, force, or any cor
rnpt means or device, at or previous to any elec-
ton held pursuant to this Act towards any cleo
tor, to hinder or deter him from voting at such
election, or shall attempt by any means whatey-
cr to awe, restrain, hinder, or disturb any cleo
tor III 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 %, $780, 598.
1885 If any person shall furnish any oleetor
wishing to vote mt any election held pursuant to
the provisions Of this Act, who cannot read, with
a ticket, such person informing or giving such
| eleclOr to understand that it contains II name or
IiIlI' W lillcH Ol pllulNl lutltUu hlNtltuL from
the name or names which are written or printed
thereon, such person shall upon conviction there
Of be fined in amy sum not less than fifty nor
more than iyo hundred dollars. Same Act, zoo !
1876. II any person shall defraud any elector at
any such election by deceyng him and causing
him to vote for different person for any Office
that such ceetor desired or intended to vote for,
or shall fraudulently attempt TO deceive aud
cause such elector thus to vote for different
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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, 5l0O.1
1877, If any person, not having The legal quail.
iications Of any elector, shall frauduenty vote
or shall traudulently 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, $lol,l
1873. 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 sum
not exceeding five hundred dollars. Same Act,
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189. 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 elcctor shall intend or desire to
vote, such person so offending shall upon con
yction thereof be fined in any sum not less than
fifty nor more than five hundred dollars Same
Act Sl03.
100. If any inspector, judge, or clerk Of an
election shall, previous to putting the ballot Of
any elector in the balot-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 a folded form or if any inspector, judge, or
clerk Of any election shall open or suffer the
folded ballot of an eIeetor which has been hand
ed in to the Board of Judges, to be opened or
examined into previous to putting the same into
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