Arizona citizen., 1874-10-24
ELECTION LAW.


 election to be held November 3, 1874:
 OF THE DISABILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS
 OF ELECTORS.
 SEC 6. Every white male citizen of the United States and every white male citizen of Mexico, who shall have elected to be- come q citizen of the United States under the treaty of peace exchanged and ratified at QuIntero on the 30th day of May, 184S, and the Gadsden treaty of 1854, ot the age of twenty-One years, who shall have been resident of the Territory six months next | preceding the election, and the county or | precinect in which he claims his vote ten | days, shall be entitled to vote at all elec- | tions which are now, OF hereafter may be, authorized by law.
 1 SEC. z. For the purpose of voting, no | person shall be deemed to have gained or lost residence by reason of his presence or absence in the service of the United States, nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this Territory, or of the | United States, or of the high seas 1; nor while student of any seminary of learn ing; nor while kept at any almshouse or other asylum nor while confined in any public prison.
 SEC. $. No idiot or insane person, or person convicted of any infamous crime shall be entitled to the privileges of an electOr. A crime shall be deemed in 1 famous which is punishable by death, or by Imprisonment in the State Prison.
 SEC. 9. Absence from this Territory on business of the Territory, or of the United States, shall not affect the question of | residence of any person.
 OF THE PLACE OF HOLDING ELECTIONS. SEC. 10. The election shall be held in each precinct, established by law, provid- ed that any precinct containing over four hundred voters may be divided by the board of county commissioners and an election held in each,
 OF INSPECTORS, JUDGES AND CLERKS.
 SEC. II. The justice ot the peace in each precinct, and two qualified electors of such precinct, shall constitute a board of judges of election" The justice shall be chairman of the board, if present; if not, the board shall appoint chairman from their own number, who shall have power to Ill any vacancy that may occur in said board.
 SEC. l2. It shall be the duty of each in- spectOr to be at the place where the polls are to be opened, in the precinct for which he is appointed, from eight o'clock ill the morning until sunset, on the day of cleo tiOn. Should such inspector not appear at eight o'clock in the morning, the electors present at the place where the polls are to be opened may appoint an inspector for the precinct
 SEC. 13. The board Of inspectors for each precinct shall before the time of opening the polls appoint two suitable persons to act as clerks.
 SEC. II. Before any election shall be opened the inspector, judges and clerks shall each before any officer authorized to administer paths, take an oath that he will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties assigned him by law. If there is no person present authorized to admin ister Oaths, the inspector shall administer the same to the judges and clerks, and one of the judges shall then administer the oath to the inspector.
 or OPENING THE POLLS.
 SEC 15. At all elections the polls shall be opened at eight o'clock in the morning and shall continue open until sunset, at which time the judges shall close the polls, provided, that the judges of the elec- ton may take d recess of one hour at any time they may think proper during the day, before o'clock in the afternoon.
 SEC lG. The board of judges before they commence receiving ballots, shall cause it to be proclaimed aloud at the place of vot- ing that the polls are opened,
 OF VOTING.
 SEC. +. The voting shall be by ballot The ballot shall be paper ticket contain ing the names of the persons for whom the elector intends to vote, and designat- ing the office to which each person so named is intended by him to be chosen.
 SEC. Is. Whenever any person offers to vote, the inspector shall pronounce his name in an audible voice, and if there be no objection to the qualification of such person as an elector, shall receive his bal lot, and in the presence of the other judg- es, put the same without being opened or examined, into the ballot box. SEC. l9. The name of each electOr whose ballot has been thus received, shall be inn mediately entered by each clerk in the column of his poll list, headed "names of voters,'' mum bering each name in the ad- ditional column, as it is taken down, so that it may be seen at any time whether the two lists agree.
 OF CHALLENGES. SEC. 20. Any person offering to vote may be challenged as unqualified by the iDspec tor or either of the judges, or by any legal voter; and it shall in all cases be the duty of the inspector and each of the judges to challenge any person offering to voto whom he shall know or suspect no to be duly qualified as an elector.
 SEC. 2l. When any person offering to vote is challenged, it shall be the duty of the board of judges to declare to him the qualifications of an clector. SEC. 9. If such person shall still insist that heis entitled to vote and the challenge | shall not be withdrawn, the board of judges in their discretion, may administer an oath or affirmation to the voter: You | do swear Cor affirm) that you will support the constitution of the United States and the laws of this Territory; that you will frpa faith olo haor fn tho |