Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-10-20
OF ELECTION OFFICERS.
CONSTITUTION OF PENNSYLVANIA ART

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! SEC. II District election boards shall consist
| of jldge and two inspectors, who shall be cho-
sen annually by the citizens. Each elector shall
have the right to vote for the judge and one in
| spcctor, aud each insl ector shall appoint one
clerk. Election officers shall be privileged from
arrest upon days Of election and while engaged
in making up and transmitting returns, except
upon warrant OF q court of record or Judge
thereof for an election fraud, for felony, for
wanton breach of the peace.
No person shall he quaiiI.ed TO serve as en-
election officer who shall hold, "a shall w;tnlu
two months have held any office, appointment
or employment in or under the government of
the United States or of this State, or of any city
or county, or of any municipal board, commits
sion or trust in any city, save only justices OF
the peace, and alderman, notaries public and
persons in militia services of the State; nor
shall any election officer be eligible to any civil
office to be filled by an election at which he
shall serve, save only to such subordinate mu-
nicipal or local offices shall be designated by
general law.
ACT JANUARY so. 1874
SEC Z. Whenever there shall be a vacancy in
an election. it shall be filled in conformity with
existing laws.
ACT JULY 2, 1889.
SEC. 16. In case the person who shall have
received the second highest number OF votes f0r
Judge at the next preceding election shall act as
inspector in his place. And in case the person
who shall have received the highest number OF
votes for inspector shall not attend, the person
elected judge shall appoint an inspe ctor in his
place; and in case the person elected judge
shall not attend. tEeu the inspector who recriv-
ed the higest number OF votes shall appoint .
Judge in his place; and il any vacancy shall con-
linue in the TO lrd for the space OF one hour al
ter the time fixed b, law for the opening ot the
election the qualified voters of the township,
ward or district for such officer shall have been
elected, present ut the place of election. shall
select one of their number to fill such vacancy
ACT JANUARY 30, 1874.
SEC g. In addition to the oath now prescrib
ed by law to be taken and sub cribed by eec-
ton officers, they shall be severally worn or
affirmed not to disclose how any elector shall
have voted unless required to do so as witness
es in a jadicial proceeding. All judges, inspcc-
tors clerks and overseers of any election held
under this act. shall before entering upon their
duties, be duly sworn or affirmed in the pres
euce OF each other. The judge shall be sworn
bv the minority inspector, II there shall he such
minority inspector, and in case there be no mi
nority inspector, then by justice of the peace
or alderman, and the inspectors, overseers and
clerks shall be sworn by the judge. certificate of
such swearing or affirming shall be duly made
out and signed by the officers so sw orn, aud at
tested by the officer who admin istered the oath.
ACT JANUARY 80, 1874.
SEC s. AT the opening of the polls at the
elections it shall be the duty of the judges OF
election for their respective districts TO desig-
nate one OF the inspectors, whose duty IL shall
be to have in custody the registry OF voters, and
to make the entries therein required by law
and it shall be the duty of the other of said in
spectors to receive and number the ballots pre-
sented at said election.