The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-22
CONFORMATION TO VOTERS.
DAY OF ELECTION.


The election occurs ON the 4th day OF
November, it being the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in the month.
O. VOTERS
must be male citizens, twenty-one years
of age, resident in the state twelve months.
in the election district three months, and
duly registered. The following persons only
are disqualified. First. idiots and lunatics.
Second. Persons convicted of bribery in
any election, embezzlement of public funds,
treason, or felony. Third. All persons
who have sent or accepted a challenge to
fight q duel, or aided or assisted in any
manner in fighting duel, since the adop-
ton of the present constitution.
Polls are opened at surprise and closed at
sunset.
The ballot must be one white paper
ticket, and contain on its face the names Of
the candidates, written or printed, for
whom the elector wishes to vote, and des-
ignating the office for which the elector
wishes them chosen. If a vote be chal.
ienged, the voter is required to swear that
he has the qualifications stated above;
that he Is duly registered in his own pro-
per name that he is the person he repre-
sents himself to be, and that he has not
already voted at the present election.
REGISTRATION.
The above are all the points needed to be
observed, except the vitality important re-
quirements of Registration and Transfer,
which however are few and simple. Every
voter on coming of age, or completing the
required term of residence in his state and
voting precinct, should go to the Registrar
(there is one at every voting place. and
see to it personally that he is regularly
registered, giving under oath his nase, age,
occupation and the length of time of his
residence in the state, county, city or
town if in city, giving the name of the
street and number of the house where he
resides This may be done on the
second Tuesday in May of each year
at every voting precinct in the state, and
on any day previous to ten days before the
election in November in the country. In the
cities and towns of over two thousand in
habitants the registrars may sit three days
for purposes of registration ten days before
each election. But the voter to be safe
ought to perfect his registration on the first
day of the sitting of the registrars, which
they are required by law to advertise for
ten days, by posting written or printed no-
tees at ten or more public places in each
precinct before each sitting.
TRANSFERS.
Whenever voter changes his residence
he may get from the registrar of the dis
trict from which he moves a certificate
that he was there duly registered, and
that on his removal his name had been
erased from the registration books. Such a
certificate is what is known as transfer.
This transfer may be presented to the
registrar of the district to which
the voter has moved at any time even on
the day of election in the country. But in
cities or towns containing over two thou
sand inhabitants, it must be presented on the
tenth day preceding the election, or if the
registrars sit so long on the two following
days above named, preceding the election
1t is believed that the above contains all
the information needed for the most care.
less voter.