The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-19
PROPOSED ELECTION LAW.

duced By MIR. kOOntZ OF Orleans, n4es Senoi"i
elections fer Tuesday after the first Monday
ia November. Representatives and oenatofo
are TO bs elected every two years. E'ecnons
are to be completed in one day, between
in the morning and in the evening. Each
parish, except Orleans, is to be an election
precinct, with voting places, ss police Jurles
NAV direct. Each ward in New Orleans is
to be a precinct, and the City Council to fix
the voting places or polls Jefferson parish
is to constitute two precincts, one Oh each
side of the river. Three commissioners are
to preside at each poll, OF different
parties. These are to be appointed IN
Orleans parish by the Mayor and Council,
and elsewhere by police juries Receiving
second vote on the same certificate Of regis
ration is to be q misdemeanor punishable by
$1,000 fine and two years in tie penitentlary.
Ballots are to be deposited in the full aud
convenient view of the persons voting. Any
voter is to have the right to deposit his vote
in the .llot-box with his own hand.
Disorderly persons at the polls are to be
subject to arrest on the warrant OF commits
soners. Election expenses are to be borne
by the pari hes or by the city OF New Or
leans No vote shall be received from per-
son not duly registered according to law. nor
in any other precinct except that in which
the voter is registered. The voter must ex-
libit his certificate of registration. Any
person cff,fing 10 vote may be required
to declare under oath that he has not
voted at another poll, or that he is
the person to whom the certificate OF regis
tration was issued, falsely swearing to be
perjury, and punishable as such. The Super
visor Of Registration must furnish to Com
missioners of Election q correct list of voters
for each poll, from which the name of each
voter is to be erased at the time when ho de-
posts his ballot. Ballot-boxes are to be so
bound with iron bands ;hst they can not be
opened without breaking the baud, Otherwise
than by unlocking. A sworn numbered list
Of voters must be made immediately on closing
the polls and befora the ballo.-box is opened,
and this list is to be deposited with the Clerk
of the District Court, or, in Orleans parish,
with the Clerk of the First District Court
Commissioners shall count the votes immedi-
ately after closing the polls and without moving
the boxes from the place where the votes
we're received, and the count shall be made In
the presence of any voter or voters who may
choose to witness it. A list of all persons
voted for shall be made and the offices for
which they were voted. the number OF votes
for each, the number OF ballots in the box,
the number rejected, if any, and the reasons
therefor: such list to be in duplicate, one for
the clerk Of the District Court Of the parish,
or the clerk Of the First District Court OF Or
leans, and the other shall be locked and
sealed no in the box with the ballots, and
thus delivered to the clerk of the parish, ETC.,
to be kept until the next term of the District
Court. The lists SO delivered become part
of the records of his Office.
The said clerks, within twenty-four hour;
after the close of the polls, at the Parish
Court House, in the presence of any witnesses
desiring to be present, must each make ou
duplicate compilation of returns, send one
copy to the Secretary OF State and deposit the
other in his Office, under pain Of fine and
removal from Office. The clerk shall give {
certified copy Of his compilation to any one
callil G for it.
The Secretary of Safe must consolidate tt
returua as compiled by clerks Of court within
ten days from date of his receipt Of same
and in five days thereafter shall make otheia
report to the Governor, who shall imneoi
ately proclaim the result.
The Governors election proclamation mus
issue six weeks before every general election
and thirty days notice must be posted Il
each parish.
Drinking saloons, dram shops and grogge
ries are to be closed within two miles of ever
poll.
In New Orleans the names of all officer
voted for shall be on one ticket and eac
ticket must have the number OF the war
printed on the outside.
Interference by violence or threats wit
Commissioners of Election is punishable b
fine and imprisonment. Rioting IN tn
vicinity of polls is made punishable as
felony. False registration and false votin
is made felony. The purchase of resi
tration papers is made felony. Votin
or attempting to vote on fraudulent certii
cate or certificate issued to another is made
felony. Voting or attempting to vote mo-
than once at the same election, or attemptir
to compel another by reward. threats or Vi
lence to vote falsely, are made felonies.
Section 80 provides
That any person who shall by threats
discharge from employment, of withholdil
wages, or prescription ID business, or by al
other means compela voter at any ele6tion
this State to cast his vote contrary to his wi
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, al
upon conviction thereof shall be punished
a fine of not less than $500 nor more tn
= $1,000, which shall 60 to the school fund
Q the parish, and be imprisoned in the pari
prison for not less than three months L
: more than one year.