Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-14
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whose right to vote shall be challenged for
such cause before the election officers, shall
be required to swear or affirm that the mat
ter of the challenge is untrue before his
vote shall be received.
SIC. .. Any person who shall, while a
candidate for office, be guilty of bi ibery,
fraud, or wilful violation of any election
law, shall be forever disqualified from hold
ing an Office OF trust or profit in this Com
monwedItn; any person convicted of wiliul
violation of the election laws shtli, in addi-
tion to any penalties provided BY law, be
deprived of the right of suffrage absolutely
for term OF four wears.
SEC. l3. For the purpose of voting no
persGn shall be deemed to have gained a
residence by reason of his p-c-cnce, or lost
it by reasoa Of his absence, while employed
in the service, either civil or military, OF
this State or the United States, nor while
engaged in the navigation of waters of this
State or the United States, or on the high
seas, nor while a studeat of any Institution
OF learning, nor while kept in any poor
house or other asylum at public expense,
nor while conf Ged in public prison.
SIC. IA. District election boards shall
consist OF judge and two inspectors, who
shall be chosen annually by the citizens.
Each elector shall have the right to vote for
the judg, and one Inspector, and each in
spector shall appoint one clerk. The first
election board for any new district shall b.
selected, and vacancies in election boards
filed, rs shall be provided by law. Elec-
ton Officers shall be privileged from arrest
upon days of election, and while engaged in
making up and transmitting returns, except
upon warrant OF a court of record or judge
thereof for an election fraud, for felony, or
for wanton breach of the peace. In cities
they may claim exemption from jury duty
during their terms of service.
SIC. 10. No person shall be qualified to
serve as an election officer who shall hold.
or shall within two months have held any
office, or appointment or employment in or
under the government Of the United States
or of this State, or of any city, or county.
OF of any municipal board, Commission or
trust IN any city save only justices of the
peace and aldermen, notaries public and
persons in the militia service of the State
nor shall any election election officer be elli-
bic to any civil office to be filed at AN cleo
ton at which he shall serve, save only 10
such subordinate municipal or local offices,
below the grade of city or county Office rs
as shall be designated by general law.
And also to the following act of Assem-
bly, now in force in this State. viz:
Act Of Januray 80, S14-SEC. 5. At all
elections hereafter held under the laws OF
this Commonwealth, the polls shall be open
ed At seven O'clock 4. M, and closed at
seven O'Clock ?. IN.
SEC Z. Whenever there shall be vacan-
.ax in al. th.. Il
an election, said vacancy shall be fllei in
conformity with existing laws.
The said act of Assembly entitled .. al
act relating to the elections of this Com
monwea.th," passed July =, 1916, provides
a. follows. viz:
"rhat the inspectors and judges shall
meet at the respective places appointed for
holding the election in the district at which
they respectively belong, before : O'Clock
in the morning Of Tuesday, November Sd,
and each said inspector shall appoint one
clerk, vi no shall be qualified voter Of such
district.
sin case the person who shall have re-
ceired the second highest number of votes
for inspector shall not attend on the day of
any election, then the person who shall
have received the second highest number of
votes for judge at the next preceding cleo
ton shall act as inspect tor in his place. And
in case the person who shall have received
the highest number of votes for inspector
shall not attend, the person elected judge
shall appoint an Inspector IN his place ; and
in case the person elected judge shall not
attend, then the inspector who received the
highest number of votes shall appoint a
jadge in his place; and if any vacancy
shall con:l1ne in The board for the space of
one hour after the time fixed by Law for the
opening of the election, the qualified voters
nf the township, ward or district for which
such officer shall have been elected, present
at the place of election, shall elect one Of
their number to fill such vacancy.
The Act of Jan. Goth, 1871, further pro-
yides, viz:
SEC. s. At the opening of the polls at all
elections it shall be the duty of the judges
of election for their respective districts to
designate one of the inspectors, whose
duty il shall be to have ia custody the reg
istry of voters, and 10 make the entries
therein required BY law; aud it shall be- the
duty OF the other of SAID inspectors to re-
ceiye and number the ballots presented at
said election.
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be by ballot; every ballot voted shall b.
numbered in the order in which il shall be
received, and the number recorded BY the
clerks on the list of voters opposite the
name OF the elector from whom received.
And any voter voting two or more tickets.
the several tickets 81 voted shall each be
numbered with the number corresponding
with the number to the name of the voter.
II I. 4.
ticket, or cause the same to be written
thereon, and attCSted By citizen Oi the
district In addition to the oath now pre-
scrlbed BY law TO be taken and subscribed
by election officers, they shall scverIily be
sworn or affirmed not To- disclose how any
elector shall have voted, unless required To
do so as witnesses in Il Judicial proceeding.
All judges, Inspectors, clerks, and oyerscerS
of any election held under this act. shall,
before entering upon their duties, oe duly
sworn or affirmed in the presence OF each
other. The Judges shall b. sworn by the
minority Inspector, il there shall be such
minority Inspector, and in case there be no
minority Inspector, then by a Justice of the
peace or alderman, and the inspectors, over
seers and clerks shall be sworn by the
Judge. Certificates of such swearing or
shall be duly made out and signed
by the officers so sworn, and attcsted by
the officer who administered the oath. If
any Judge or minority inspector refuses or
fails TO swear the officers of election in the
manner required by this act, or if any Off
Ger of election shall act without being first
duly sworn, or if any officer of election
shall sign the form OF oath without being
duly sworn, or if any judge or minority in
spector shall certify that any officer was
sworn when he was not, it shall be deemed
a misdemeanor, and upon cony iction the
officer or officers so offending shall be fined
not exceeding one Thousand dollars, OF i'm
prisoned not exceeding one year, or both,
at the discretion of the court.
SEC. 10. On the day of election any per-
son whose name shall not appear on the
registry of voters, and who claims the right
to vote at SAID election, shall produce at
least one qualified voter of the district as a
witness to the residence of the claimant in
the district in whic n he claims To be voter,
tor the period of at least two months i'm
preceding said election, which
shall be sworn or affirmed and SUBJ
scribe a written or partly writtsn and partly