The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-01-01

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accordingly but in all cases, such offender. if Qualified.
shall be allowed to vote before being committed, if he de-
sire to do so.
SEC. 81. A space of fifteen 15) feet, in every direc-
ton from the polls, shall be kept open and clear of all
persons except one challenger of good conduct and be-
havior, selected by each political party, to detect and
challenge illegal voters; and the voters shall approach
the polls from one direction, line, door or passage, and
depart in another as nearly opposite as convenient; "A
copy of this section shall be published and posted with the
notice of any general or special election.
SEC. %. Electors shall, in all cases, except in those of
felony, or breach OF the peace, be privileged from arrest
during their attendance on the elections, and in going to,
and returning from the same.
SEC. 90. The names of all the persons voted for by
any elector at any general or special election, shall be on
SEC. 80. Every elector shall vote by ballot, and each
person offering to vote, shall deliver his ballot to one of
the judges of election, in the presence of the others.
SEC. 81. 1t shall be lawful for any elector to vote for
delegate in congress at any place of holding election in
the Territory, and for all other officers to be voted for in
his county, except precinct officers, at any voting place in
his county, but precinct officers must be voted for only
[in] their respective precincts.
Sec. 80. If any person offering to vote, shall be chal-
lenged as unqualified, blythe judges or clerks of election,
or by any one of the challengers selected for that pur-
pose, the judges shall declare to the person so challenged,
the qualifications of voters if such person shall then
state himself duly qualified, and the challenge be not
withdrawn, one of the judges shall then tender to him
that you are [twenty-onel (2D years of age; that you are
a citizen of the United States Tor that you have declared
your intention to become a citizen, conformably to the
laws of the United States on the subject of Naturalization,
and that you have taken an oath to support the constitu-
ton and government of the United States; that you have
resided in this Territory ninety 1907 days and in this
county thirty 500 days next preceding this election that
you have not voted at this election
Sec 33. If any person so offering to vote shall take
such oath, his vote shall be received, once and no more;
and ifsuch oath shall be knowingly false, the person tax
ing it shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall upon
conviction thereof, be punished under the law fixing n
penalty for perjury.
SEC. "a. There shall be provided and kept by the
judges of each election precinct, (at the expense of the
county,, a substantial ballot box, with a secure lock and
key; there shall be one opening, and no more through
the lid or corner of such box of sufficient size to admit a
single folded ballot. Before any ballot shall be deposited
in the ballot box, the ballot box shall be publicly opened
and exhibited, and the judges and clerks shall see that
no ballot is in such box; after which the box shall be
locked and the key delivered to one of the judges to be
designated by the others, and shall not again be opened
until the close of the polls. The ballot box shall not be
removed from the presence of judges or clerks of election,
after locking said box as herein provided, until all the bal
lots shall be counted and poll lists made of all the names
on said ballots, as provided by law.
SEC. 35. When a ballot shall be received, one of the
opened or examined, shall deposit it in the ballot box. 1t
shall be the duty of each judge or clerk Of the election to
challenge all persons whom he shall know or suspect as
not being qualified voters.
SEC. SO. Each clerk shall keep a full list, which shall
contain the names of all the persons voting at such election
in their numerical order. In case of adjournment, each
clerk shall keep his poll list, and the judges shall seal up
the hole in the ballot box, one of the judges taking the
box, and another the key; and if any judge or clerk of
election, or other person shall open said box in any way,
during such adjournment, he shall be deemed guilty ola
misdemeanor, and punished, upon conviction thereof,
with imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than three
g., nor more than nine () months.
Sec. 81. As soon as the polls of the election shall be
closed, the judges shall proceed Immediately to canvass the
vote given, and shall continue without adjournment until
the canvass is completed. The canvass must ommerc e
by a comparison of the poll lists, and they must be made
to agree the ballot box shall then be opened, and the
ballots counted by the Judges and clerks, unopened, and
if there are more ballots than names upon the poll list,
the ballots must be returned to the box, shaken up, and
one of the judges shall draw from such box, ballots
enough to make the remainder agree with the poll list,
which ballots so drawn shall be destroyed; and two or
more ballots being found so folded as to bear the appear
ance of having been voted by one person, shall not be
counted but preserved with the poll books; the poll list
and ballots being made to agree, the judges and clerks
shall then proceed to count and ascertain the number Of
votes cast for each person named upon such ballots when
the votes shall have been examined and counted, the
clerks shall set down in their poll books the name of
every person voted for, written at full length, the office
for which such person received such vote or votes, and
the number he did receive, the numbers being expressed
in words at full. length and also in figures; such entry to
be made as nearly as circumstances will admit, in the
following form, to wit: "At an election held at the
house f-in-precinc in the county of-and
Territory of Wyoming, on the--day Of, in the
year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred md
the following named persons received the number of
votes annexed to their respective names, for the following
described offices, to With for dele
gate to congress ;-had--vote for council -
had --votes for house of representatives ;--had
VOTES for sheriff for county
clerk --had--votes forprobate Judge and county
treasurer --had--vot for county and pros
missioner ;- had--votes for county superintend-
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