Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-10-11
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ter Of the challenge is untrue before his
vote shall be received.

candidate for office. be guilty OF bribery,
| fraud, or wilful violation of any election
law, shall be forever disqualified from hold
ing an Office Of trust or profit in this Com
mon wealth any person convicted OF winui
violation Of the election laws shall, IN adai-
ton to any penalties provided by law, DC
de prived of the right of suffrage absolutely
| for a term OF four years.
SIC. l3. For the purpose OF voting no
person shall be deemed TO have gained a
residence by reason Of his presence, or lost
it BY reason oi his absence, while emplored
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 student of any institution
of learning, nor while kept in any poor
house or other asylum at public expense,
nor while confined in public prison.
SEC a. 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 judge and one Inspector, and each in-
spector shall appoint one clerk. The first
election board for any new district shall DC
| selected, and vacancies in election boards
filled, as 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, Tor felony, or
for wanton breach of the peace. In cities
they may claim exemption from jury duty
during their terms of service.
SEC. Is. No person shall be qualified to
serve as an election officer who shall hold,
or shall within two month, have held any
Office, or appointment OF employment in OF
under the government of the United States
or of this State, or of any city, or county,
or 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 Statei
nor shall any election election officer be elli-
bic to any civil office to be filed at an elec-
ton at which he shall serve, save only 10
such subordinate municipal or local offices,
below the grade OF city OF county officers
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, 1874 SEC. 3. At all
elections hereafter held under the laws OF
this Commonwealth, the polls shall be open
ed at seven o'clock a. M, and closed at
seven O'Clock p. m.
Sect. Whenever there shall be a vacan-
cy in an election board on the morning of
an election, said vacancy shall be filed in
conformity with existing laws.
The said act of Assembly entitled " al
act relating to the elections of this Com
monwea.th," }" passed July 2, 1916, provides
as follows, viz:
ssThat the inspectors and judges shall
meet at the respective places appointed for
hrlA he. in fhs. At bieh
they respectively belong. before Z O'Clock
in the morning Of Tuesday, November Sd,
and each said inspector shall appoint one
clerk, who shall be qualified voter of such
district.
"In case the person who shall have re-
ceived 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 inspector in hIs place. And
in case the person who shall have received
the highest number OF votes Tor 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
judge in his place; and if any vacancy
shall continue in the board for the space of
one hour alter the time fixed b. law for the
opening of the election, the qualified voters
of the township, ward or district Tor which
such officer shall have bcea elected, present
at the place of election, shall elect one of
their number to ill such vacancy.
The Act of Jan. 3Oth, 1874, further pro-
vides, viz:
SEC. 8. 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 it shall be to have in custody the reg
istry of voters, and to make the entries I
therein required BY law; aud il shall be the 4
duty of the other of said inspectors to re- /!
ceive and number the ballots presented at
said election.
SEo. 9. All elections by the citizens sha Il |
be by ballot; every ballot voted shall be /
numbered in the order in which it shall be !
received, and the number recorded by the I
clerks on the list of voters opposite the .
name of the elector from whom received. 1
And any voter voting two or more tickets,
the several tickets SO veted shall each be /
numbered with the number corresponding /
with the number to the name of the voter.
ANY electOr may write his name upon his 4
ticket, or cause the same 10 be written .
thereon, and attested by a citizen of the /
district. In addition to the oath now pre-
scrlbed by law TO be tIken and subscribed
by election officers, they shall ssveralIy be
sworn or affirmed not to disclose bow any 4
elector shall have voted, unless required 10
do so as witnesses in a judicial proceeding.
All judges, inspectors, clerks, and overseers
of any election held under this act, shah.
before entering upon their duties, oe duly
sworn or affirmed in the presence of each
other. The judges shall be sworn by the
minority Inspector, If there shall be such
minority inspector, and in case there be no
minority inspector, then by justice of the
peace or alderman, and the inspectors, over
seers and clerks shall be sworn by the
judge. Certificates of such swearing or
affirming shall be duly made out and signed
by the officers so sworn, and attested by
the officer who admins tered 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, il shall be deemed
misdemeanor, and upon couy iction the
officer or officers so offending shall be fined
not exceeding one thousand dollars, or i'm
prisoned not exceeding one year, or both,
at the discretion of the court.
SEC. lU. 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 10 the residence of the claimant in
the district in which he claims to be a voter,
for the period Of at least two mouths imme.
diately preceding said election, which wit
ness shall be sworn or affirmed and sub
scribe written or partly written and partly
printed affidavit to the facts stated by him.
which affidavit shall define clearly where
the residence of the person so Claiming to
be voter, and the person 20 claiming the
right TO vote shall also take and subscribe a
written or partly written and partly printed
stating to the best of his knowl-
edge and belief, when and where he was
born; that he has been a citizen of the Uni
q.