Arizona citizen., 1874-10-24

| States, that you are or the age or twenty
 one years, according to the best ofyour
 information and belief; that you have
 resided in this Territory six months next
 preceding this election, and in this county | for precinct as the case may be) ten days, and that you have not before voted this day.
 SEC. B If the person thus challenged
 shall take the oath as rendered to him by the board of judges, he shall be admitted to vote, and it shall not be lawful, after he has taken such oath or affirma- tion, for said board to examine any wit ness touching his want of qualification :; but if he shall refuse to take the oath or affirmation so rendered to him, his vote shall be rejected.
 SEC 24. Ii the vote of any person be challenged on the ground that he has been convicted of an infamous crime or disfranchised by any court of competent jurisdiction, he shall not be required to answer any questions, respecting such alleged convection; and In the absence of any authenticated record of such facts, it may be competent for two disinterested witnesses upon oath to prove the same.
 SEC. 25. When the polls are closed, proclamation thereof shall be made at the. place of voting, and no vote shall be afterward received.
 OF COUNTING AND RECEIVING VOTES,
 SEC. 26. As soon as the polls ars closed on the afternoon 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 the ballots shall in all cases In l,n hn11 1ate el,o1 hn 4,l- out carefully, one by one by the chairman or one of the judges, who shall open them, and read aloud the name of each person contained thereln, and the office for which every such person is voted for. Each clerk shall write down each office to be filled and the name of each person voted for such office, and sall keep the number Of votes by tallies, as they are read aloud by the chairman or judge. The counting of the votes shall be continued without adjournment until all are counted.
 SEC. 27. If two tickets are folded to- gether, 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 can determine to thelr satisfaction the person voted for and the office intended.
 DECLARING THE RESULT OF ELECTIONS.
 SEC. 2S. As soon as all the votes are read off and counted, certificate shall be drawn up on each of the papers contain ing the poll list and tallies, or attached thereto, stating the number of votes each person voted for has received, and desig mating the office to fill which he has voted for, which number shall be written in words at full length. Each certificate shall be. signed by the clerks, the judges and inspector: one of said certificates with the poll list and tally list to which it is at tached, shall be retained by the inspector and preserved by him at least six months. The ballots shall be preserved by the judg- eS or chairman, The oth9r of the certiti- cates, with the poll list and tally paper to which it is attached. shall be sealed up by the inspector, and endorsed selection re- turns,' and be directed and delivered or, sent by the chairman to the county record CT of the county in which the election is held.
 SEC. 29. The said package shall be de- livered to the county recorder by one of the judges or clerks of election in person or may be sent by private hand or mail. If sent by private hand. the person deliv- ering it shall before the county clerk, take and subscribe an affidavit that the pack age 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 en- dorSed on the package. If sent by mail it. shall be mailed by one of the judges; and the postmaster shall make on it endorse ment that he received it from one Of the judges, manning him).
 SEC. 30 No tally paper, poll list or cer- tificate, returned from any election, shall be set aside or rejected for want of form; nor on account of it's not being strictly In accordance with the directions of this act, if the same can be satisfactorily under stood.
 OF THE PENALTIES FOR MISCONDUCT AT ELECTIONS, AND FOR VIOLATIONS OF GER
 TAIN PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER.
 SEC. 57. If any person shall directly or indirectly use any threats, menace, or force, or any corrupt means or device, at or previous to any election held pursuant to this chapter, towards any elector, to hinder or deter him from voting at such election; or shall attempt by any means whatever, to awe, restrain, hinder, or dis turb any electOr in the free exercise of the right of suffrage, he shall, upon convic- ton thereof, be fined in any sum not eX- ceeding five hundred dollars.
 SEC. 5S. If any person shall furnish any elector wishing to vote at any election held pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, who cannot read, with d ticket, such person informing or giving such cleo tor to understand that it contains name or names written or printed thereon, for whom such person wishes tOvOte, but that such ticket contains no such names, such | person shall, upon conviction thereof, be | fined in any sum not less than fifty nor | more than five hundred dollars.