Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-02-06
VOTE FOR ONE
FOR GOVERNOR

elections
FOR GovERNoR VOTE FOR ONE
e. q. Dnraod, OF Racine, ...-.. Prohibition
! ". ID Hoard, Of Jeferson.... hepubcan \
James Morgan, Of Milwaukee,, Democrat
u frank Powell. q Ia Crosse. Labor
The X shows which one vote was for
The law says:
SECTION ?. All ballots cast in cleo
+ lions for public officers within this state
after the first day of October in the year
! 1889, and all ballots east in muuic pal
elections in cities having a population
/ of less than fifty thousand after that
| date, shall be printed and distributed at
| the public expense rs hereinafter pro-
/ vided The printing OF ballots and
/ cards of instruction for the voters in
each county and the delivery of the
same to the election officers shall be "a
COUNT charge. the payment of which
shall be provided for IN the same man
ner as he payment OF other county ex-
penses, but in the case OF municipal
elections the printing and delivery of
ballots, aud cards of instruction shall
be paid for by the city in which such
election shall be- held.
SECTION 4. A convention or primary
meeting within the meaning % this act
is an organized assemblage of electors,
or delegates, representing a political
party which at the last election before
the holding of such convention or pri-
mary meeting. polled at least two per
cent of the entire vote cast in the state,
county or other division or district for
which the nomination is made
SECTION B. All nominations made
by such convention or primary meeting
shall be certified as follows The GER
tilicate of nomination shall be in writ
ing and besides containing the names of
candidates, shall specify as TO each,
First. The Office for which he is
nominated.
Second His business and business
address.
Third. His place of residence with
street and number, il any.
Fourth. The party or principle which
he represents expressed IN not more
than five words.
Such certificate shall be signed by tic
presiding officer and secretary Of such
convention or primary meeting who
shall add 10 their signatures their re
spectiye places of residence with street
and number if any. and their respec-
| tive businesses ana they shall make oath
before an officer qualified to administer
the same. that The atlantis were such
officers Of such convention or primary
| meeting, and that said certificate and
the statements therein contained are
true TO the best Of their knowledge and
belief A certificate that such oath has
been administered shall be made and
signed by the officer before whom the
same was taken. No certificate of
nomination shall contain the name of
more than one candidate TOR each Office
to DO filled. No person shall accept a
nomination TO more than ona office.
SECTION z. Certificates of nomina-
ton and nomination papers of candi
dates for offices to be filled by the voters
OF the entire state, or of any division or
district greater than a county, shall be
filed with the secretary of state All
other certificates of nomination and
nomination papers shall be fled with
the clerks of the respective counties
wherein the officers are to be elected
SECsION 8.
Certificates of nomination aud
nomination papers herein directed to
be filed with the county clerk shall be
filed not more than thirty and not less
than fifteen days before election.
SECTION 20. All officers upon whom
is imposed by law the duty Of desiynat-
ing polling places shall provide in each
polling place designated by them a suf-
iicient number of places, shelves or COM
partments which shall be furnished with
such supplies and conveniences as shall
enable the voter conveniently 10 pre-
pare his ballot for voting, and in which
voters may mark their ballots screened
from observation, and a guard rail so
constructed that only persons within
such rail can approach within five feet
OF the ballot boxes, or the places.
shelves, or compartments herein pgoVid-
ed for The number of such places,
shelves, OF compartments shall nor be
less than one for every fifty electors
who voted at the last preceding election
in the district. No person other than
voters engaged in receiving, preparing
or depOsiting their ballots, or q person
present for the purpose Of challenging
the vote Of an electOr about TO cast his
ballot, shall be permitted to be within
said rail. The expense Of providing
such places, shelves, or compartments
and guard rails shall be a public charge
and shall be provided for in the same
manner rs the other election expenses
SECTION 2l. At the same time aud
IN the same manner as inspectors of
election are now appointed or elected,
two ballot clerks for each election dis
trict in the state shall be appointed or
elected, the said ballot clerks shall be
paid in the same manner and at the
same rate as inspectors of election are
now paid; but they shall only serve on
election day, and it shall he their duty
10 have charge of the ballots an5 to
furnish them to voters in the manner
hereinafter provided.
SECTION % Before delivering any
ballot to an elector, the said two ballot
clerks shall write their names or initials
upon the back of the ballot immediate.
~ under the printed Endorsement. Eleh
qualified elector shall be entitled 10 re-
celve from the said ballot clerks one
ballot.
SECTION %. On receipt of his bal
lots the elector shall forthwith and with
out leaving the polling place. retire
alone to one of the places, booths or
compartments provided, to prepare his
ballots. He shall prepare his ballots by
marking a cross before or after the
name Of the person or persons for whom
he intends to vote, for example, y;
or in case Of ballot containing a con
stitutional amendment or a question to
be submitted to the vote of the people,
by marking on the appropriate margin
or place cross (X) against the answer
which be desires to .,iye. In marking
such ballot any elector shall be at
liberty to use or copy asy unofficial
ballot which ho may choose to mark or
to have had marked IN advance of en-
teriug the polling place or booth to as
sist him in marking the official ballot,
but no elector shall be at liberty to use
or bring into the polling place any I'M
official sample ballot printed upon
paper. Of the color and quality now re-
qnired to be used for The printing Of
ballots under the general election laws
IF this sfate After DreparinU his bal