Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-28
THE REGISTRY LAW.

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What Voters must Do to Secure Their
Ballots.
The GLOBE republishes the sections Of
the election law relative to registration
and invites careful perusal The registra-
ton boards meet in every election pre-
cinct on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday OF
this week at the hours named in ths law
below.
Sec. 80. 1.-THE said board shall again
meet on Tuesday of the week preceding
any general or special election held on
Tuesday, aud seven days next preceding
any general special election held on any
other day of the week in their respective
election districts, at the place designated
for holding the polls of the election for the
purpose of revising, correcting and com
plotting said lists; and for this purpose
they shall meet at o'clock in the morn
ing, and remain in session until O'Clock
Up. m. ''The said board shall
| again meet on the Friday and on
, the Saturday next preceding
any general or special election to be held
on Tuesday, and on the two days next pre-
ceding the day before any special election
to be held on any other day in the week
(not counting Sunday in any case), in
their respective election districts, at the
place designated for holding the polls of
the election, for the purpose of further
revising and correcting said lists and Of
finally completing the same, and for this
purpose they shall meet at twelve az
o'clock noon and remain in session until
ten (10) O'Clock in the evening Of each of
said days.
Sec. 81. The proceedings of said board
shall be open, and all persons residing and
entitled to vote III said district, shall be En-
titled to be heard by said board in relation
to corrections or additions to said register.
One of the lists so kept by the judges afore-
said, shall be used on the day or days of
making corrections or additions, for the
purpose of completing the register for such
district.
Sec. %. II shall be the duty of said
board at their meeting for revision and
correcting said list, to erase therefrom the
name Of any person inserted therein, who
shall be proved by the oath of two legal
voters of said district to the satisfaction of
said board, to be non-residents of said dis
said district at the election next to be
held. Any elector residing in said district
and entitled to vote therein, may appear
before said board, and require his name to
be recorded on said alphabetical list. Any
person requiring his name to be 80 enter
ed on said list. shall make the same state
ment as to the street and number thereof,
and where he resides, with the name of the
household, required by the provisions of
this act, of persons offering their votes at
elections, and shall be subject to the same
penalties for refusing to give such infor-
nation, or for falsely giving the same, and
shall also be subject to challenge on cleo
ton day either by the judges or by any
other elector whose name appears on said
alphabetical list, and the same oath may be
administered by the judges as now provid-
ed, in case Of persons offering to vote at an
election; and in case if no challenge is
made of any person requiring his name to
be entered on said alphabetical list, or in
case of challenge, If such person shall
make oath that would entitie him to vote
in case of challenge at an election, then
the name of such person shall be added to
the alphabetical poll list
Sec. SO. After said lists shall have been
fully completed, the said board shall, by
twelve (12) O'Clock noon on the day before
the election, cause Two copies of the same
to be made, each of which shall be certi-
fled by them to be a correct list of the |
voters of their district one of which shall |
bs fled in the Office of the city clerk and |
one OF which copies shall be delivered to |
one of the said judges. 1t shall be the |
duty of said judges so receiving such list |
to preserve said list for their use |
on election day, and to designate two of |
their number at the opening of the polls,
to check the name of every voter voting in
such district whose name is on the regis |
ter, and it shall be the duty of said judges,
after the final result of the canvass, to draw
q line with red ink across the name of |
every person on said register not voting at
such election. SNo vote shall be received |
at any general or special election, if the |
name of the person Offering to vote, and
his place of residence clearly and definite
ly stated, be not on said register as finally
and certified to by the board |
of registry above provided, unless the per-
son offering to vote be personally known
to at least one (1) of the judges of election,
and unless such person shall furnish to the |
judges the same efidavits and evidence
that he is entitled to vote as is required by |
this act of a person whose vote is chal-
e ,ged."
Sec. "a. The clerks of each poll, in ad-
dition to the duties now prescribed by |
law, shall enter on the poll list kept by |
them. in columns prepared for that pur-
pose, opposite the name OF each person |
voting, the same statement or minute IS |
herein before required of the board in
making the registry, but such entry is not |
to be mode by them if the registry con-
tains correctly the name and residence of |
such voter; and in all cases clerks shall |
enter in column opposite the name of |
each person not registered the words ''not
registered" Every elector at the time of
Offering his vote,ehall truly state the street !
in which he resides, and if the house, lodg
ing or tenement in which he resides
is numbered, the number
thereof, and the name of |
the head of the household; and the clerks
of the polls in case the name of such cleo
tor is not registered, shall truly enter in
the appropriate column of the poll list,
opposite the name of the elector, the stree.
in which the elector resides, and the nam
Der, in case the house, lodging or tene-
ment is numbered, and the name of the
head of the household, and if the same is
not numbered then the clerk shall enter