The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1878-11-01


,nine and count the ballots in each
Ior each candidate or person voted
Ior, and shall make out and transmit
certificates Of the result, and IL the
number Of ballcts or votes for each
person voted for, in the same way as
hey are now required by law to do
N elections held for such representa-
ives. Said board shall not count, nor
in any way estimate, any ballot that
has on Il any distinguishing mark,
other than as provided for in section
Eve; nor shall any ballot he counted
which has on il the name Of more
than one person for the same office.
SO. After said ballots are counted,
they shall he carefully bound up in bun.
dies. so that those from each precinct
or voting place shall he separate from
those from the others, and shall he
delivered to, and preserved by, the
county clerk, in the same way that
poll-books are required to he preserv-
ed, for the period Of two years at
least. The boxes shall he delivered
to the county clerk, who shall pre-
serve them for use at the succeeding
elections.
) 10. In all respects where the
same are applicable, all laws OF the
Commonwealth pertaining to elections
are expressly made to apply to the
elections provided for IN this article,
whether such laws provide for the
punishment OF ofienses or otherwise
provided they are not IN conflict WIN
the provisions OF this article.
! ii. Any person or persons VIOLA
ting any Of the provisions of this ar
ticle in regard to the conducting Of
such election, or It any officer OF the
election, or sheriff or member OF the
board OF examiners, or county court
clerk, shall fail faithfully TO discharge
all his duties hereunder, he or they
shall, on conviction thereof, he lined
not less than fifty nor more than live
hundred dollars.
\ ~. And if any person or persons
shall be guilty of unlawfully or fraud
ulently or corruptly opening, or at
tempting to open, one or more of the
said boxes while they are required by
this act TO he kept locked or sealed; or
If any person or persons shall he gull
ty Of changing or attempting to
change. or alter any ballot that has
been deposited in the box aforesaid; or
If any person shall he guilty of fraud
ulently or knowingly destroying any
one of said ballots before they are
counted by the examining hoard; or
If any person or persons shall forcibly
and against the will Of a voter, and
before he has voted, inspect and look
at the ballot of such voter, SO as to
see the name of the person for whom
he intends to vote, as shown by such
ballot, every such person guilty as
aforesaid shall he fined not less than
two hundred nor more than one thous-
and dollars. And any person or per-
sons who shall unlawfuily remove, or
attempt to remove. or take from any
IF said boxes, one or more of the bal
lots deposited therein; and any person
VII shall unlawfnlly take or carry
lway from the proper custody, or who
hall attempt to take and carry away,
me or more of said boxes from the
proper custody and place Of keeping
hereof; and any person, being an Off
er of the election, who shall fraudu-
emily fail to deliver said boxes, with
he ballots therein, to the county
Jerk, within the time allowed by law,
very person thus offending shall, ON
thereof, be fined not less
han two hundred nor more than one
housand dollars; and any person or
ersons who shall fraudulently and
'rongfully put or insert one or more
allois into any one or more OF the
oxes mentioned in this act, at any
Ime before the counting of the ballots
concluded and completed by the
GARD for examining the polls, and
heir certificate made out, on convic-