Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-10-31
OF ELECTION OFFICERS.
CONSTITUTION or rEsxsrLvAs1A-ARr. VI

CONSTITUTION or PENNsrLvASIA-ART. VII.
Sec. IL District election boards shall con-
sist of Judge an Two inspectors, who shall
be chosen snrusily By the citizens. Each
eleetor shall have the right to vote for the
Judge aud one IN spector, and each inspector
shall appoint oue clerk. Election officers
shall be privileged from arrest upon days Of
election and while engaged in making pua
and transmittin- returns, except upon
warrant of a court Of record or Judge there
OF, for an election fraud, for felony, or for
wanton breach o1 the peace.
l5 No person shall be qualified to serve
as an election officer who shall hold, or shall
within two months have held an office, ap-
pointment or eu ployment in or under the
government of ne United States or of this
State, or OF any city or county, or OF any
municipal board commission or trust in any
city, save only j. tees OF the peace and alder
men, notaries Fablic and persons IN militia
service of the : ,te; nor shall any election
officer be eligible to any civil office to be
filed by an election at which he shall serve,
save only TO such subordinate municipal or
local offices as sh Ii be designated by general
law.
VACANCIES IN ELECTION BoARDs-ACT OF JAN
UARY 80, 1874.
SECTION 6. liz all election districts where
a vacancy exists BY reason of disqualification
of the officer otherwise in an election
board heretofore ppointed, or where any new
district shall be formed, the judge or judges
of the court OF common pleas OF the proper
county shall, ten days before any general or
special election, appoint competent persons
to fill said vacancies and to conduct the
election In said new districts; and in the ap-
puntment OF inspectors In any election dis
trict both shall u"t be of the same political
party; and the Judge of elections shall, in
all cases, be OF tie political party having the
majority of vote in said district, as nearly
as the said judge or judges can ascertain
the fact; and IN case OF the disagreement
of the Judges as to tue selection of inspel-
tors, the political majority of the judges shall
, select one of sue inspectors, and the IN nor
ity Judge or jul 3 snail select theothei.
vAcANcIEs ON MORNING OF ELEoTIoN--AcT OF
JULY ?. 1889.
In case the person who shall have
received the second highest number OF votes
for inspector, ST III not asend on the day
Of any election 'Rea the person who shall
have received IN second highest number Of
votes for Judge at the next preceding elec-
ton, shall act as an inspector in his place;
and ia case the 'erson who shall have re-
ceived the higL st number of votes for in-
spector shall not attend, the person elected
Judge snail appoint an inspector in his place;
and in case the qerson elected judge shall
not attend, theL jne inspector who received
the highest nu.p Der of votes shall appoint a
in Judge his pio :: and if any vacancy Shall
continue in the 6Oard Tor the space Of one
hour after the tine fixed by law for the
Opening OF the election, the Qualified voters
of the township, ward or district, for, which
such officer sh"tl have been elected pres
ent at the eectio1, shall elect one of their
number TO fill sneh vacancy.
THE oATH-Aor JANUARY 80, 1874.
Egc. Q. in addition 10 the oath now pre-
scribcl by law 10 oe taken and subscribed by
election officers, .hey shall be severally sworn
or afiruei not T. disclose how any elector
shall have voted Giess required 10 do so Us
witnesses in a jud cial proceeding. All judges,
inspectors, clerks md overseers of any elec-
tion held uldet rs act. shall before enter
ing upon their tuties, be duly sworn or
affirmed in the l.resence of each other. The
judges shall be sworn by the minority in
spector, and in there by no minority
inspector, then bT a justice OF the peace or
alderman, and he inspectors, overseers
and clerks shall e sworn be the judge, cer-
tiiicate Of such sw elring or affirming shall
be duly made Ou md signed by the officers
so sworn, and att sted by the officers who
administer the oa,a.
MODE OF Coz QUOTING ELECTIONS.
SEC g. At all tn elections hereafter held IN
der the laws o. this Commonwealth, ti.e
polls shall be ope sd at O'Clock, A. M, and
closed at o'cloe,-, p. NJ.
TIL BALLOTS.
CONSTITUTION or eESNsYLvANIA--ART. VIII.
SEC 4. All elel ions by the citizens shall be
by ballot. Every sllot voted shall be num-
berad in the orde. n which it Wac received,
and the number recorded by the election
officers on the list I voters. opposite the name
of the elector who PRESENTS the ballot. Any
elector may write ls name upon his ticket,
or cause the sau, to be written thereon ana
attested by citizen of the district.
ACT JAH UARY so, 1874.
SEC. =. At the 2ening of the polls at the
elections it shall b the duty OF the judges OF
the election for u .ir respective districts to
designate one Of inspectors, whose duty il
shall be to have i; custody the registry 9t
voters, and to ma e the entries therein requlr-
ed by law: and il shall be the duty of the
other said inspcct' RS to receive and number
the ballots preseu cd at said election,
DUTIES OF PEACl oFFIcFRs ACT OF 1889.
It shall be the lty of the respective con-
stables of each ard, district or township
within this Comm lwealth to be present in
person or by depu :, at the place of holding
such elections in id ward, district or town
ship. for the purr 80 of preserving the peace,
~ Aforesaid.
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