The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-05-17
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SOVEREIGN SUFFRAGE
What Qualifications are Required to
Vote in Ohio.
THE NEW ELECTION LAW
Electors Must Register the
Lists are to be Made Out.

Below we give the full text of the new
election law, commonly known as the
registration law;
An Act supplementary and amendatory
of the act entitled "An act to amend
sections two four and twenty-four o.
an act entitled AN act to Preserve the
Purity of Elections
SECTION l. Be ii enacted By the General
assembly of The State Of Ohio, That no per-
son shall be permitted to vote at any
election unless ne shall have been resi-
dent of the State one year, resident OF
the county three hundred and sixty days
and a resident of the township, village or
ward in which he resides and offers to
vote three hundred and ffty-fve days
next preceding the election; provided,
first, no person shall be prohibited from
voting by reason of not having been a
resident of the proper county, or town
ship, village or ward the time above
specified if such person shall have been a
bona fde resident of the county thirty
DAYS and of the township. village or ward
in which he resides and offers to vote
twenty days next preceding the election
and shall have complied with the provis-
ions and registered as required by section
five of this act provided, second, that
any person being the head of a family
and having actually resided in the State
and in the county wherein he may otter
to vote the time required by this act who
shall bona fde remove with his family
from one township, village or ward there
in shall not be required to reside in such
township, village or ward to which he
shall so remove the time specified in this
section in order to vote therein at any
election except at elections for municipal
officers. All judges of election in determ-
lining the residence of person offering
to vote shall be governed by the follow
ing rules so far as the same may be apph-
cable:
First-That place shall be considered
the residence of a person IN which his
habitation is fixed without any present
intention of removing therefrom and to
which, whenever he is absent, he has the
intention of returning.
SeCond-A person shall not be consid-
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leave his home and 60 into another State
or county of this state for temporary pur-
poses merely with the intention Of re-
turning.
Third-A person shall not be consider
ed to have gained a residence in any
county of this state into which he shall
come for temporary purposes merely,
without the intention of making such
county his home.
Fourth--If person removeto another
state with the intention to make it his
perment residence, he shall be Consid-
cred to have lost his residence in this
state.
Fifth-If person remove to another
state with the intention of remaining
an indefinite time, and as a place Of
present residence, he shall be consider
ed to have lost his residence in this
state, Notwithstanding he may entertain
an intention to return at some future
period. ty
Sixth-The place where a married
mans family resides, shall generally be
considered his place of residence, but if it
is place for temporary establishment of
his family, or for transient objects it shall
be otherwise.
Seventh-If married man has his
family fixed in one place, and he does
business in another, the former shall be
considered his place of residence.
Eighth-The mere intention to acquire
q new residence without the fact of re.
moval, shall avail nothing; neither
shall the fact of removal without the in
tention.
Ninth-if person shall 90 into anoth-
er state, ard while there exercise the
right of a citizen by voting he shall be
considered TO have lost his residence in
this state.
Tenth--All questions of the right TO
vote shall be heard and determined by
the Judges of elections, who shall require
at least the sworn testimony of an cleo
tor of the proper township or ward, and
known to one or more of the judges, as
to the truth Of the statements Of such
person whose right to vote has been
challenged.
SEC. 2. Trustees of townships, and the
Councils Of cities and villages forming
one or more election precincts, shall on
the fourth Monday next preceding the
general elections in October of each year
appoint two suitable persons Of opposite
politics, for the registration Of voters, in
each election precinct in such township
city OF village, who shall be electors Of
the proper election precinct, and shall