The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-07-25
and shall so remain closed and locked un

and shall so remain closed and locked un-
til the polls are closed.
6. The managers shall keep poll list
and for this purpose shall appoint & clerk.
Z. The ballots used shall be either print
ed or written or part printed and part writ
ten, and shall contain the names of the
persons voted for, and the Offices for which
the persons so voted for are candidates.
s. The qualification of voters at such pri-
mary election, shall, in addition to men,
bership, in the Democratic club in which
they propose to vote, be in all respects such
as would qualify such persons TO vote in
the General Election for the State and
County officers. Provided that no colored
member CT any Democratic club, who did
not vote the Democratic ticket st the Gen.
eral Election Of 1885, shall be permitted to
vote at such primary election.
9. When for any cause vote shall be
challenged, the managers may accept or
reject the voter thus offered. In either
case it shall be the duty Of the managers
| to have entered on their poll ista state
| ment Of the circumstances and Of their ac-
ton therein, and also the names of the can
didates voted for, or offered to be voted for
by the party challenged. The matter shall
then be decided by the County Executive
Committee.
10. On the close Of the polls the managers
shall proceed Immediately. continuously,
and publicly to count the votes.
IL. When the votes shall have been connt-
ed, the managers shall make out in dup
Icate, returns showing the number of votes
cast, for each person voted tor, the Office for
which he is voted for, and the total num-
Der of votes cast, and shall deposit one of
said returns in the ballot box, with the
voters, and file the other as one of the re-
cords of the club.
The managers shall certify to the correct
ness of such returns.
IL. The ballot box containing the ballots,
the poll list certified roll of the club which
shall have been used by the Managers,
and the certified return of the managers, to-
gether with any other paper or papers con-
cerning or affecting such primary election,
shall be delivered by one of the Managers,
securely locked, together with the key there
Of, to the Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee on Thursday the 18th day of August
1888 and on Friday the 18th day of Au-
gust 1888 the County Executive Com
mittee shall meet at Manning in said Coun-
ty at u O'Clock, noon, and shall then and
there open the ballot boxes so delivered to
the chairman Of said committee and shall
canvass and aggregate such returns, and
shall Immediately thereafter publish and de-
clare the result of the election and shall take
such further action therein as the nature of
such result may make necessary.
13. If any person shall have received a
majority of all the votes cast for the Office
for which be lisa candidate. he shall be de-
clared to be the Democratic nominee for
such Office. But # for any Office, itbe found
that no candidate has received majority of
all the votes cast at the primary election for
such Office, then the County Executive Com
mlttee shall forthwith order another primary
election to be held on Tuesday, the 4th day
of September 1883. The ballot boxes, with
| the votes cast in such second primary cleo
ton, and all other papers and matter requir-
ed by section u of these regulations to be
deposited therein, shall be delivered by
one of the Managers, securely locked, to-
gether with the key thereof, to the chairman
of the Executive Committee, on Thursday
the 9Th day of September 1888, and the
County Executive Committee shall meet Oh
Friday the 7th day Of September 1888 for
the purpose Of canvassing and aggregating
the returns of such second primary election
and declaring the result thereof. The said
second primary election shall be held, man
aged and the returns thereof be made, IN
der the same regulations as the first primary
| election, and the result of said second pri-
mary election shall be declared by the E1-
ecutive Committee as in the first election.
Il. At such second primary election, only
the swo candidates receiving the highest
number of votes for each separate Office at
the former election shall be voted for. All
votes for other parties shall be considered as
scattering and not to be counted, and the
persons receiving the highest number Of
votes at the second primary election, includ-
ing those if any who shall have been nomi-
mated in the first primary election. shall be
the nominees of the Democratic party. Pro-
vided that in case where there are more
than one person to be elected for the same
Office the Executive Committee shall select
according to number Of votes previously re.
ceived twice as many persons as there are
official positions to fill.
Is. No person shall be eligible to election
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