Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-02-28
THE NEW ELECTION LAW.

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THE NEW ELECTION LAW.
The new election bill has now passed
both branches of the legislature and is
before the governor for his signature.
The LIST section provides that any political
convention nominating candidates to be
voted for at any general election may also
adopt by resolution some distinctive mark
or device to be printed on the face OF and
at the head of the ticket nominated by
such convention, and upon filing an i'm
print of the ticket containing such mark
or device, with the names Of the candi-
dates nominated by such convention
printed thereon, with the probate clerk
of the county, such mark or device
shall be the property ofthe party adopting
such device or mark, and any person who
shall print, distribute or circulate any
ticket having such device printed at the
head, and having any other name or
names printed beneath it than the names
OF the candidates nominated by the con-
vention adopting such device, shall be
guilty of felony. 1t is provided, how
ever, that any person may alter, change
or erase in writing any name on the ticket
voted by him.
The I'd section provides that all tickets
shall be within one-quarter of an inch OF
three inches wide and eight inches long,
and shall have printed at the head the
name or designation Of the party whose
candidates are placed upon the ticket,
and prohibiting the names of any other
persons being printed on such ticket ex-
cept the regular nominees OF any one po-
ltical party which shall in convention or
otherwise nominate candidates for the Of
fees to be filled at any general election /;
provided, that nothing herein shall be
construed to prevent any name or names
of any candidate or candidates on any
such ticket being erased on any ballot or
ticket, and any other name or names be-
ing substituted in writing therefor, by or
at the personal request of the person vot-
ing such ballot or ticket. And shall be I'M
lawful for any person or persons to print,
or cause to be printed, any ballot or tick
ct with any false designation or heading
printed thereon, or any other ballot or
ticket calculated to deceive or nlislead
any voter.
it shall hereafter be unlawful for any
person who is not qualified elector to
vote, or to offer to vote at any election
held in this territory, or to register as a
voter or to offer to register rs a voter and
it shall be unlawful for any person to
register or offer to register or to vote or
offer to vote in the name Of another per-
son and it shall be unlawful for any per-
son to register his name as voter or to
cause or procure his name to be so regis
tered in any other election precinct than
that in which such person resides or will
in good faith have resided the requisite
period of time prior to the day OF the
next ensuing election; and it shall also
be unlawful for any person to solicit, pro-
cure, aid, abet, induce or attemt to pro-
cure or induce any person who is duly
qualified to register as voter or to vote
at any election held in this territory.
1t shall be unlawful for any person,
after the passage of this act, at or prior to
any election authorized by the laws Of this
territory, to influence, or attempt to in
fuence any voter to vote for or against
any candidate for office, or any question
such election, by the offer of any money,
property, article or thing of value, or by
the offer of employment, or by any
menace or threat to discharge from en-
ployment, or by any threat OF violence to
any such voter, or by any threat OF
menace to sue any such voter or any
other person, or by any promise to refrain
or abstain from suing such voter or any
other person, or to influence or attempt
to influence any voter to cast his vote in
any particular way by means of any bride,
reward or promise OF reward, or for any
voter to take or receive any bride, com
pensation, money, article or thing as an
inducement to vote for any person or
question, or to refrain from voting for any
person, or to obstruct, interfere with or
impede any qualified voter from register
ing or voting at any such election, or to
abruptly or violently take from any such
voter any ballot or ticket for the purpose
OF changing the same, or to examine the
same, or to interfere with the easy access
of any voter to the polls for the purpose
of voting at any such election, or to mis-
lead or deceive any voter by furnishing
him with ticket or ballot under the pre-
tense that such ticket or ballot contains
names other than those printed or written
thereon, or to deceive or defraud any
voter by falsely causing such voter to
vote for person, thing or question other
than such voter desired or intended to
vote for.
Sixty days before any general election
hereafter held in this territory for delegate
to congress, members of the legislative
assembly, county, district and precinct
officers, it shall be the duty of the boards
OF county commissioners Of the respective
counties to appoint boards OF registration
in and for the several precincts of their
respective counties in the manner now
provided by law. Such boards OF regis
tration shall meet at least thirty days be-
fore the day appointed for the holding OF
such election, and shall proceed to register
the qualified voters in their respective
precincts. The probate clerk shall be re-
quired to furnish the boards of registration
Of the respective precincts with list OF
the voters who were registered in such
precinct at the preceding general election,
and the board Of registration shall enter
all Of such names on the books Of regis.