Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-06-22
CHAPTER TX.


ELECTION TICKETS AND BALLOTS.
SECTION 545. A ballot is a ticket
folded in such a manner that nothing
written or printed thereon can be
seen.
SEC. SAG. No ticket must be used
At any election, or circulated on the
day OF election, unless:
!. II is written or printed on plain
white paper:
2. 1t is four inches in width and
twelve inches in length, or within
one-fourth Of an inch of such size:
3. II printed, the names OF the
persons voted for and the Office des-
ignated are printed in black ink, and
in long primer oapitals--the name OF
the Office in small capitals, and Of the
person in large capitals-and both
without spaces, except between the
different words or initials in each line
4. If printed, the same margin is
left above the printed matter al
below it, and the side margins are
equal in size:
s. II printed, the lines are straight
and the matter single loaded:
6. II written, the matter is SC
written that no sign thereof appears
when the paper is folded: and
7. 1t is free from every mark
character, or device, or thing tina
would enable any person to distinguish
it by the back, or when folded, from
any other legal ticket or ballot.
SEC. SAT. No ballot must be uset
at any election, or circulated on thu
day of any election having any mari
or thing on the back or OUTSIDE
thereof whereby it might be distin
guished from any other ballot legal.
used on the same day.
SEC. 54S. No ballot or ticke
must be used or circulated on the da,
of any election, having any mark o
thing thereon by or from which /
can be ascertained what persons o
what class of persons, or at what tim
in the day such ballot was voted o
used.
SEC. $40. Every ticket, when use'
as a ballot, must be folded crosswis
-four times) from the center, so as t.
make tho ballot three fourths of Al
inch in size, and must be pressed flat
SEC. $50. No ticket must be folde,
in Q manner to indicate its content
when used as a ballot; but an
elector, who is entitled to vote 70
part and not ali of the officers to b
chosen, must vote an open ballot.
SIC. 551. If in the ballot bo
two tickets are found folded togethe
in the form of ballot, they mus
both be rejected.
SEC. 552. No ballot or part thereo
must be rejected by reason of an,
obscurity therein IN relation to tn
name of the person voted for or tn
designation of the office, if the Board
from an inspection of the ballot, Cal
determine the person voted for ant
the Office intended.
SEC. $50. If the names of NOR
persons are designated on any ballo
found in the ballot box for the sam
office, than are to be chosen for sue
Office, then, except in the cases pro
vided for in the next section, all tn
names designated Tor such ofhoe
must be rejected, and the fact o
such rejection, and the reasons there
for, must at the time of such rejection
be noted on the ballot and signed b,
a majority of the Judges.
| SEC. 554. When upon a ballo
found in any ballot box a printe'
name and name written with ink O
with pencil appears, and there ar
not so many persons to be chosen 10
the office, the printed name must b
rejected and the written one counted
and the fact must at the time b
] noted oy, tho hook nf tho oI1ot IN,