Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-17
THE UNITED STATES ELECTION
LAWS.


LAWS.
Inasmuch as frequent reference DUR
ing the next year will be made to the
United States election laws, which the
Democrats in Congress are determined
to repeal, we give them below in order
that our readers may determine for
themselves whether or not they contain
any provisions calculated to deprive
States of their powers or citizens of
their rights. The Supervisors law is
embraced in the following sections of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States:
Section POLL. Whenever in any city
or town having upwards of 10000 in
habitants there are two citizens thereof,
or whenever, in any county or parish,
in any Congressional district. there are
ten citizens thereof of good standing,
who, prior to any registration of voters
for an election for Representative or
Delegate in the Congress of the United
States, or prior to any election at which
a Representative or Delegate to Con.
gress is to be voted for, may make known
in writing to the Judge of the Circuit
Court of the United States for the cir
cult wherein such city or town, county
or parish is situated, their desire to have
such registration or such election, or
both, guarded and scrutinized, the Judge
within not less than ten days prior to
the registration, if one there be, or if no
registration be required, within not less
than ten days prior to the election, shall
open the Circuit Court at the most con-
venient point in the circuit.
Section 2Ol2. The court, when so
opened by the Judge, shall proceed to
appoint and commission from day to
day and from time to time, and under
the hand of the Judge and under the
seal of the court, for each election dis
trict or voting precinct in such city or
town, or for such election district or vot-
ing precinct in the Congressional dis
trict, as may have applied in the man.
ner hereinbefore described and to evoke,
change or renew such appointment from
time to time, two citizens, residents of
the city or town, or of the election dis
trict or voting precinct in the county or
parish, aoho shall be Of different political
parties, and able to read and write the
English language, and who shall be
known and designated as Supervisors of
Election.
Section 2O17. The Supervisors of
Election are authorized and required to
attend at all times and places of hold
ing elections of Representatives or Dele
gates in Congress and for counting the
votes cast at such elections; to callenge
any vote offered by any person whose
legal qualifications the Supervisors,o or Ell
Their of them may doubt to be and remain
where the ballot boxes are kept at all
times after the polls are open until every
vote cast at such time and place has
been counted, the canvass of all votes
polled wholly completed and the proper
and requisite certificates or returns made
whether the certificates or returns be re-
quired under any law of the United
States, or any State, Territorial or NUM-
cipal law, and to personally inspect and
scrutinize, from time to time and at all
times on the day of election, the man.
ner in which the voting is done and the
way and method in which the poll books
registry lists and tallles, or check books,
whether the same are required by any
law of the United States, or any State,
Territorial or municipal law, are kept.
Section 20l8. To the end that each
candidate for the office of Representa-
tive or Delegate in Congress may obtain
the benefit of every vote for him cast,
the Supervisors of Election are. and
each of them is, required to personally
scrutinize, count and canvass each bal
lot in their election district or voting
precinct cast, whatever may be the in.
dorsement on the ballot, or in whatever
box it may have been placed or found
to make and forward to the officer, who
in accordance with the provisions of sec.
ton 2025' has been designated as the
Chief Supervisor of the judicial district
in which the city or town wherein they
may serve. acts, such certificates and re,
turns of all such ballots as such officer
may direct and require, and to attach
to the registry list, and any and all CO.
pies thereof, and to any certificate. state
ment or return, whether the same, Of
any part or portion thereof, be required
by any law of the United States, or O.
any State, Territorial or municipal law
any statement touching the truth or &C
curacy of the registry, or the truth o.
fairness of the election and canvass
which the Supervisors of the Election
or either of them may desire to make O.
attach, or which should properly ant
honestly be made or attached, in orde
that the facts may become known.
Section 20l9 prescribes the position
the Supervisors shall occupy on tn
day of election, and during the canvas
of the votes.