The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-04-12
Published March %, 1871
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AN ACT to guard against the abuse of the elective
franchise and TO preserve the purity of elections
by regulating the appointment of inspectors OF
election and requiring registration of electors
in certain cases, and to repeal chapter AS of the
laws of 1864 chapter 296 Of the laws of 1865 chap
ter 126 of the laws of 1866 chapter 134 of the
laws of 1871, chapter 232 of the laws of 1875 and
chapter 800 of the laws of 1876, and amendatory
of certain city and village charters therein re-
ferred to-
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION l. The Mayor of every incorporated city
and the President of every incorporated village in
this State, except in the cases hereinafter men
toned, shall present to the Common Council of such
city, or to the Board of Trustees of such village at
their first regular meeting in September OF each
year, and in such Common Council. or Board of
Trustees, hold no regular meeting during September
then at special meeting of such Common Council,
Board of Trustees which shall be held
the last Tuesday in September of each year, the
names Of three persons for inspectors of elections
and the names of two persons for clerks of cleo
lions, for each election precinct in said city vii
lage. Such inspectors shall be electors in the
ward for which they shall be appointed inspectors;
shall be able to read and write the English Ian
guage understandings; shall not be candidates to
be voted for at any election for which they may be
appointed inspectors; and not more than two OF
such inspectors shall belong to the same political
party. Such clerks shall be electors in the ward
for which they shall be appointed clerks; shall be
able to read and write the English language under
standingly shall not be candidates to be voted for
at any election for which they may be appointed
clerks and shall be of opposing political parties.
Such Common Council, or Board OF Trustees, upon
presentation of such nominations for inspectors
and clerks of elections, shall Immediately proceed
to approve or disapprove OF the same,
and in majority of sid Common Council or
Board of Trustees shall disapprove of any person
so nominated, the Mayor President shall then
and there nominate another person for such posi-
ton, and shall so continue to do until said board
of three inspectors and two clerks for each cleo
ton precinct in said city village shall have been
nominated and confirmed; and such nominations
and combinations shall be made and concluded
on the day aforesaid, and when so made and con-
Guided, such board of inspectors and clerks shall
possess the qualifications, and be composed of per-
sons known to belong to the different political par
ties as hereinbefore provided. The persons ap-
pointed inspectors and clerks of election shall hold
their positions during year; they shall act
inspectors and clerks at every general municipal or
special election held within their precinct during
such time they shall receive such compensation for
their services and be liable to such penalties any
violation of their duties is provided by law for
inspectors and clerks of elections in other cases.
Such board of inspectors shall have power to fill
any vacancy in their number, or in the number of
the clerks. but the persons appointed to fill va
cancy shall be of the political party and pos
sess the qualifications the person he sue
ceeds. In all incorporated cities villages in this
State, which are joined to towns Tor State and
ty purposes, the inspectors of elections appointed
by law in such towns, cities villages SHALL in adj
diton to the general duties imposed upon them as
posed upon the inspectors Of elections by this act.
SEC. 2 The persons authorized by law to act as
inspectors of elections in any ward election pre-
cinct in any incorporated city village, in any
town in which is situated any incorporated city or
village in this State shall constitute board of reg
istry for their respective towns, wards precincts
villages and their duties such boards of registry
shall be follows viz: to make at such times and
in such manner as hereinafter prescribed List of
all the persons qualified and entitled to vote at the
then ensuing election, in the election district of
which they are inspectors. The said inspectors
shall have their first meeting Tuesday four weeks
preceding each general election at the place where
said election is to be held and shall then have power
to sit four days, if necessary for the purpose of
making such list; they shall meet at nine O'Clock in
the forenoon and hold their meetings open until
nine O'Clock in the evening of each day during which
they shall sit and the clerks appointed by law to
act as clerks OF election shall act clerks Of the
board of registry.
Sec g. Said registers shall each contain a
list OF the persons qualified and entitled to vote
In said election district, alphabetically arranged
according to their respective surnames, so as to
show in one column the at full length and in
another column in cities and incorporated villages,
the residence by the number Of the dwelling If
there be a number, and the name of the street or
other location OF the dwelling place OF each person.
1t shall be the duty of said inspectors to enter in
said lists the of all persons residing in their
election districts, whose names appear on the poll
list kept in said district at the last preceding gen.
eral election and in cities incorporated villages
the number Of the dwelling and name of street or
other location, if the shall be known to, can
be ascertaned by such inspectors and for this pur
pose said inspectors authorized to take from the
office in which they fled, the poll lists made and
filed by the inspectors of such district at the gen.
era election held next prior to the making of such
register. In making said list the board shall enter
thereon, in addition to the the poll list, the
names OF all other persons who well known to
them to be electors in sale district and the
Of all persons on said poll list who have died or
removed from the district, shall be omitted from
said register. The said inspectors shall complete
as far practicable the said register at their first
meeting as aforesaid, and shall make four copies
thereof and shall certify the register and each of
the copies to be true list of the voters in their dis
two days thereafter the said original list together