The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-07-18
RULES AND REGULATIONS
For Primary Elections foI Clarendon
County.

meeting of every Democratic club IN the
county, primary election for the nomina-
ton of persons for the several Offices to be
filed ; and the presiding officer of each
club shall cause two certified copies Of the
club roll to be prepared and closed ten
days before the day appointed as aforesaid
for such primary election; one copy Of
which said roll shall be Immediately trans
mitted to the chairman of the County Ex.
ecutiye Committee, and the other cdpy
shall be delivered to the Managers of the
club poll on the day Of said election, and
before the polls are opened.
2. The polls shall be opened at 10 S'clock
IN the forenoon. and be kept open without
intermission U3til o'clock in the afteS
noon, when they shall be closed.
3. at each Glib poll there shall be three
managers of election to be appointed by
the County Executive Committee.
4. The Executive Committee shall furnish
ballot box with lock and key for each club
polling place. FOE the secure keeping OF
which the managers shall be responsible.
Immediately before opening the polls the
managers and their clerks shall seyerally
subscribe to the following pledge:
II solemnly pledge myself on honor that
'.I will faithfully perform all the duties, in
''cident to my position as manager of the
primary election to the best Of my abil-
'tty." The clerk using the term clerk in
stead of manager.
S. On opening the polls the ballot box
shall be emptied of all contents and ex-
hibited thus emptied to the by-standers,
and while so emptied, be closed and locked
and shall 50 remain closed and locked un-
til the polls are closed.
6. The managers shall keep a poll list
and for this purpose shall appoint clerk.
Z. The ballots used shall be either print
ed or written OF 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 ere candidates.
8. The qualification of voters at such pri-
mary election. shall, in addition to mem
bership, in the Democratic club in which
they propose tovote, 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 of any Democratic club, who did
not voee the Democratic ticket at the Gen.
eral Election Of 1886, shall be permitted to
vote at such primary election.
9. When for any cause a 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 list a state
ment of the circumstances and Of their ac<
ton therein, end also the names Of the can
didates voed 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 count
ed, the managers shall make out in dup
;licate, returns showing the number Of votes
cast, for each person voted for, 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.
10. 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 cs 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 ~ 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.
ls. If any person shall have received
majority of all the votes cast for the Office
for which he isa candidate, he shall be de-
clared to be the Democratic nominee for
such Office. But # for any Office, it be found
that no candidate has received majority of
all the votes cast at the primary election for
such Office, then the County Executive Com
m,ttee shall forthwith order another primary
election to be held on Tuesday, the 4th day
of September 1885, The ballot boxes, with
the votes cast in such second primary elec-
ton, and all other papers and matter requir-
ed by section y Of these regulations to be
deposited therein, shall be delivered by
one of the Managers, securely locked, to-
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