The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-08-10


marily, by his order, require the county
or municipal clerk to correct such error
or show cause before said justice, ut this
shortest possible day, why such error
should nor be corrected.
46. And belt enacted, That it shall be
tue duty Of the clerks OF the several town
ships, cities and municipalities of the
state at least thirty days before any cleo
ton TO DO held uuder the provisions Of
this act, TO provide FOR and secure in each
election district orvnting precinct Of their
respective townships. cities and muni-
equities Il suitable room in which to
hold The election, and Immediately upon
procuring such room said township or
other clerk shall notify the election OF
poll clerks aud the board of registry and
election OF the precinct or voting district
that such room has been procured and
where the same is located; and it shall be
the duty of the clerk procuring such
room to have constructed therein and
ready Tor use before election day, booths
or compartments with swinging door so
arranged thAt some part of the person OF
a voter standing in said booths or com
partments may beseen from the outside
Of the compartments when the door is
closed, in which booths or compartments
voters may, IL they so desire, procure and
prepare their ballots secretly and
screened from the observation of others:
each booth or compartment shall
contain a counter or shelf suitably
their ballots thereon while preparing
the same for voting; the number of such
booths or compartments shalI not be less
than one for every seventy-five votes cast
at the next preceding election held in
such district or precinct for mem bers of
the general assembly, and not less than
five such booths or Commandments shall
be provided in any polling place; said
boots or compartments shall be erected
within rallied enclosure separating the
same from the remainder of the room,
and not more than one person. except AZ
hereinafter provided shall be permitted
to enter or be la the same booth or COM
partment at one time; the said booths or
compartments shall be SO arranged and
constructed that all the officers conduct
ing the election can see whether more
than one person enters or is In any OF
such booths or Compartments at the Same
time; each compartment, shall be kept
provided by said election board with q
sufficient supply of official ballots Of each
party, organization or set of petitioners,
and with lead pencils; The ballot boxes at
every polling place shall be within said
rallied enclosure, and so placed that the
voter may deliver his ballot 10 the cleo
ton officers after emerging from the COM
partment, before leaving the railed
enclosure within which the compartments
rallied enclosure shall be provided
with single entrance by which
voters shall enter, and single exit by
which they shall leave the same; said
compartments shall be at all hours we'll
and sufficiently lighted to enable voters
TO read and prepare their ballots with
ease; except as in this act otherwise pro-
vided, no person shall be allowed within
said rallied enclosure while the election Is
in progress. other than the election Off
GERS and poll clerks and voters entering
the same for the purpose of preparing
hair
and the agents of the parties or candi-
dates when 4 person IS challenged: and no
person shall be allowed or permitted to
be present in the polling room outside
such rallied enclosure during the progress
of the election, except the officers COM
nected with the Ell ection, the several cam
didates or either of them, the duly an-
thorlzed agents of the candidates or po-
nuleal parties as hereinafter specified,
such voters as are actually present for
the purpose Of voting, and such officers
as may be duly authorized to be present
pursuant to this act, for preserving the
peace or enforcing the provisions thereof;
the arrangement of such polling place
shall. as to said rallied enclosure, and the
entrance thereto and exlJ therefrom, and
the location of the compartments and
ballot box within such enclosures, be
substantially as shown in and by sched-
ule A to this act annexed and forming
part hereof. ~
AZ. And be it enacted, That Immediate
lv on entering said rallied enclosure each
voter shall be furnished by member OF
the board OF election. TO be stationed in
close proximity to tne entrance
least one of each of the official
ballots provided for use in the polling
room at said election. and with one and
only one of the official envelopes pro-
vided for such election; IL shall be the
at least one official ballot of each party,
organization or set OF petitioners. and
one official envelope, ls delivered to each
voter as he enters said rallied enclosure
and before his entry into any cofnpart
ment; provided that in those cases where,
by the provisions of this act, a sufficient
number of official ballots for that pur-
pose shall not have been delivered to
the board of election by the county OK
municipal clerk for any organization,
party or group of petitioners. it shall and
may be lawful for such organization,
party or group of petitioners 60 deliver
10 the board of election official ballots,
in number sufficient to furnish one of
sucn ballots TO each voter, and it
shall then be the dnty of such
board of election to provide each voter
with such ballots in the manner provided
for in this section; no person shall be per-
mitted to vote at said election until after
he shall have received said ballots and
envelope in manner aforesaid, and car
ried the same with him into one OF the
compartments; having obtained said bali
lots and envelope, the voter SHALL with
the same in his possession, without delay
and without leaving said rallied enclo-
sure, retire alone to one OF said booths or
compartments and enter the same and
close the door thereof, and remain
therein such length of time, not exceed
ing five minutes, until he shall have in
closed in said official envelope the ballot
nc intends voting. in such manner as to
conceal all printing, writing or pastors
on the face of said ballot, whether said
ballot was procured from said election
officer or within said compartment or
elsewhere; on leaving the booth or COM
partment the voter shall forthwith aud
before leaving said rallied enclosure, de-
liver his ballot, inciosed in said envelope
as aforesaid, unsealed. but with the flap
thereof turned down SO as to conceal the
ballot therein. to member of the cleo
ton board at the ballot box. who shall
Immediately deposit the same in the bal
lot box in the presence Of the voter, after
which the voter shall, without unneces-
sary delay, leave the polling room, aud
no ballot Except as in this act otherwise
provided shall be counted unless the
same shall be inclosed in an unsealed Off
cial envelope in the manner therein pro-
vided.
as. And be it enacted, That any voter
who declares under oath and establishes