The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-05-25


with the county or municipal clerk distributing
them They are to be thus distributed on the
day previous to the election.
The election CLERKS shall give the pack
ages to the election boards with the seals
unbrokcn before the polls are declar ed
open and take receipt for them.
If BALLOTS ARE LOST
Ii the ballots are not delivered in time
or are lost and others cannot be had, the
county, city or township clerk is directed
10 prepare others as near to the official
ballots and envelopes as possible.
When this cannot be done, or the sup
ply. shall become exhausted before the
polls are closed, unofficial ballots, as
near the official ones as possible. NAV be
provided. Such unofficial envelopes are to
be voted in official ballots, but if there
are no official envelopes on hand no en-
velopes are to be USED. When the supply
OF envelopes becomes exhausted the bal
lots are to be voted folded in such man
ner as to display the official stamp
The distribution of the ballots before
election is provided for in Section 81.
Any voter may, ten days before election.
notify the clerk in writing that he re-
quires number of the official ballots.
not less than fifty, and the clerk is di-
rected to furnish him, with tho ballots
not less than five days before the election.
The person thus receiving the ballots
must pay the cost of printing them. Sec
ton 3S allows the person receiving the
ballots to distribute them and permits
them to be voted
In section 80 it Is provided that if any
ballot or envelope voted shalt have there
on any mark or device other than those
permitted by the act, whereby they
can be identified, they shall be void.
Section 40 permits the erasing of a candi-
dates name and the use of pastors.
1t the ink or pencil with which the
scratching is done is of any other color
than black the ballot is void The ballots
must be cH inspection five days before
election, and if any mistake is found in
thest the County CLERK must provide new
ones at once and have the others
destroyed.
Section Al provides for the nomination
of u candidate TO fill vacancies caused by
resignation or otherwise. at least ten
days before election, in the same manner
as the original candidate was nominated.
Section 45 provides thai the Supreme
Court may direct the county or municipal
clerk to correct errors
THE POLLING PLACE.
Section 46 provides for the polling place.
It shall be the duty Of the county or mu-
nicipal clerk at least thirty days before
election to provide suitable rooms in
which to hold the election.
The clerk IS to have constructed there
in and ready for use booths or compart-
ments with swinging doors so arranged
that some part of voter standing there
in may pc seen from the outside
Of the compartments when the door Is
closed, in which voters may, if they SO
desire, procure and prepare their ballots
secretly and screened from the obserYa-
ton OF others. Each booth or compart-
ment must contain a counter or shelf for
voters to place their ballots on while pre-
pairing them. The number of such booths
shall not be less than one for every
seventy-ave votes cast at the next pre-
ceding Assembly election and not less
than five shall be provided In any polling
place. The booths are to be erected
within a rallied enclosure separating
them from the remainder of the room,
and not more than one person,
is to be permitted TO enter or to be many
booth at one time. Each compartment
is TO be kept provided with a sufficient
supply of official ballots OF each party, or
set of petitioners, and with lead
pencils. The ballot boxes at every
polling place shall be within the rallied
enclosure, and so placed that the voter
may delis er his ballot to the election Off
GERS after emerging from the compart-
ment, before leaving the rallied en-
closure within which the compartments
and ballot boxes are placed; such rallied
enclosure shall be provided with single
entrance and single exit.
No person is to be allowed within the
rallied enclosure during the election other
than the election officers and poll clerks
and voters, and the agents of the parties
or candidates when a person is chal-
lenged; and no person shall be per
mitted to be in the polling room
outside the rallied enclosure during the
progress of the election. except the Off
GERS connected with the election, the several
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authorized agents of the candidates or
political parties, such voters as are actu-
ally present for the purpose of voting,
and such officers as may be duly author
lied to be present for preserving the
peace.
COMPULSORY sECLUSIoN.
Immediately on entering the rallied en-
closure each voter shall be furnished
with at least one of each of the official
ballots and only one of the official envel-
opes 1t snail be the duty of the Board
Of Election TO see that at least
one official ballot of each par
ty, organization or set of petit
TONERS, and one official envelope, is de-
livered to each voter as he enters. No
person shall be permitted to vote until
after he has received these ballots and
envelope and carried them with him into
one of the compartments. Having OBJ
tanned the ballots and envelope the voter
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without delay and without leaving
the rallied enclosure, retire alone TO one
of the booths and enter it and close the
door and remain therein not over five
minutes, until he shall have enclosed in
the official envelope the ballot he in
tends voting, whether that ballot
was procured from the election
officer or within the compartment or else
where; on leaving the booth or compart-
ment the voter shall forthwith and be-
fore leaving the rallied enclosure, deliver
his ballot inclosed in the envelope, to a
member of the election board at the bal
lot box, who shall Immediately deposit
it in the ballot box in the presence of the
voter after which the voter shall, with
out unnecessary delay, leave the polling
room.
Any voter who declares under oath and
establishes to the satisfaction of major
ity of all the members of the board OF
election, that by reason of blindness or
other physical disability he is unable to
prepare his ballot without assistance,
shall be permitted to bring with him q
person of his own selection TO the booth
TO assist MIN.
No person who votes or who assists an
other in preparing his ballot may diyulge
the candidate for whom either voted.
POLL WATCHERS
The chairlnen OF the County Com
mittees or any candidate duly NOM
mated for petition may appoint two
agents for each polling place in which he
is running. These agents may challenge