Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-10-18
OF ELECTION OFFICERS.

CONSTITUTION OF PENNSYLFAslA-AkF VIII.
SEC II District election boards shall consist
of a jadge 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
spector, and each inEl ectOr shall appoint one
clark. Election officers shall be privileged from
arrest upon days of election and while engaged
in making up and transmitting returns, except
upon warrant OF a court of record or Judge
thereof for an election fraud, for felony, or Tor
wanton breach of the peace.
Is. No person shall be qual.ied To serve as an
election officer who shall hold, or shall wltniu
two months have held an 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 Jnstices Oh
the peace, and alderman, notaries public and
persons In militia services OF the Stale; nor
shall any election officer be eligible to any civil
office 10 be flied by an election at which he
shall serve, save only 10 such subordinate mu-
nicipa or LOCAL offices as shall be designated by
general law. ..
ACT JANUARY 80. 1874
SEC z. Whenever there shall be vacancy In
an election board, on the morning of an cleo
ton, it shall be filed in conformity with
existing laws.
ACT JANUARY 80, 1874.
sEo. o. In addition to the oath now prescrb.
ed by law to be taken and subscribed by cleo
ton officers, they shall be seyerally sworn or
affirmed not to disclose how any elector shall
have voted unless required to do so as witness
es In jadicial proceeding. All judges, inspec-
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
ence OF each other. The judge shall be sworn
by the minority inspector, If there shall be 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. certihcate OF
such swearing or affirming shall be duly made
out and signed by the officers so sworn, and at
tested by the officer who administered the oath.
ACT JANUARY 80, 1874.
SEC. 8. AT the opening Of the polls at the
elections II shall be the duty OF the judges OF
election for their respective districts 10 desig-
nate one OF the inspectors, whose duty 1t shall
be to have in custody the registry OF voters ana
to make the entries therein required BY law
and II shall be the duty of the other OF said ~:
spectors to receive and number the ballots pre-
septed at said election.
MODE OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS.
ACT JANUARY 80, 1874.
SEC. 5. All the elections hereafter held under
the laws Of this Commonwealth, the polls shall
be orencd at z o'clock, A. NJ, and closed at
O'Clock, p. M.
cossTTTUTIos OF PENssYLvANIA-ART. VIII.
SEQ. A. All elections by the citizeps shall be
by ballot. Every ballot voted shall be number.
ed In the order In which ii was received, and
the number recorded by the election officers on
the list of voters, opposite the name OF the eiec
| tor who presents the ballot. Any eleetor may
write his pane upon his ticket, or cause the
came to be written thereon and attested by q
| citizen Of the district.
ACT MARCH 30, 1856.
SEC. ]. Be It enacted by the Senate and House
| of REPRESENTATIVES, Of the Commonwealth oil
| Pennsylvania In General Assembly met ana u
| Is hereby enacted by the authority OF the same,
That the qualified voters Of the several counties
| of this Commonwealth at all general, township,
| borough and special elections arc hereby here
after authorized and required 10 vote by tickets,
printed or written, or paI tly printed and partly
written, severaly classified as follows
One ticket shall contain the names OF all per
sons voted for the Electors of President and
Vice President OF the United States, and shall
| be labelled on the outside with the word "Elec-
| tors"
One ticket shall contain the names OF all per-
| SONG voted for for Member OF Congress OF the
United States, all peJspns voted tor for Member
| of the State Senate OF the Commonwealth I'll of
| Pennsylvania, all persons voted for for Member
OF the House of Representatives OF the Common
wealth OF Pennsylvania, and all persons voted
for for county offices OF said county OF Sutler,
aud 70 be labelled on the outside With the worh
"County."
One ticket shall contain the names OF all per:
sons voted for for Judge of any OF the courts oi
snid county or OF this Commonwealth. and be Ia
belled on the outside with the word 'Judicinry.'
One ticket shall contain the names OF all per.
sons voted for for officers OF the Commonwealth
of PENNSYLVANIA, other than Judges OF the Su-
preme Court of said Commonwealth, and he Ia
bellcd on the outside with the word Estate"