Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-22

ty-four ga, twenty-five (25) twenty-eight
(2S), and Twenty-Five (29) of this act, to be
printed III large, cles.s type on separate
cards, TO he called cards of instruction:
and such officer or officers shall furnish TO
the judges of election a sufficient number
of such cards of instruction to enable the
judges of election to comply with the pro-
visions OF this act
SEC. 10. The judges of election shall
cause not less than one of such cards to be
posted in each voting booth provided for
the preparation of ballots, and not less
than four of such cards to be posted in
and about the polling places upon the day
of election Judges OF election shall not
less than five days prior to an election,
cause to be conspicuously posted. in five
or more public places in their voting pre-
clnct or election district, a card of inStruc-
ton and specimen ballot printed on col
ored paper, containing the names, resi-
dence, and party or political utilization of
all candidates nominated as herein pro-
vlded, and to be voted for in such precinct,
substantially in the form of the general
ballot to be used herein. and they shall
likewise cause to be published, prior to
the day of election, in at least two news
papers, if there be so many published in
such county, representing the political
parties which cast az the preceding election
the largest and next largest number of
votes, list OF all the nominations made
as herein provided and to be voted for at
such election, as near as may be- in the
form in which they shall appear upon the
general ballot.
SEC. 20. The judges of election of their
respective election precincts or election
districts shall have charge of the ballots
and furnish them to the voter as herein
after set forth.
SEC. p. All officers upon whom is i'm
posed by law the duty of designing or pro-
viding polling places shall provide in each
polling place so designated or provided
sufficient number of booths. which shall
be provided with such supplies and con-
veniences, including shelves, pens. pen
holders, ink, blotters and pencils, as viii
enable the voter to prepare his ballot for
voting, and in which voters may prepare
their ballots, screened from all observa-
ton as 10 the manner in which they do so:
and a guard rail shall be so constructed
and placed that only such persons as are
inside said rail can approach within six
feet of the ballot box and of such voting
booths. The arrangements shall be such
that voting booths can only be reached by
passing within said guard rail. They shall
be within plain view of the election Off
GERS and both they and the ballot boxes
shall be within plain view of those out
side the guard rail Each of said booths
shall have three sides enclosed one side in
front, to open and shut by door swing
ing outward, or to be closed with a cur
tain. Each side of each booth shall be
seven feet high, and the door or curtain
shall extend to within two feet of the
floor, which shall be closed while the voter
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be well lighted. Each booth shall be at
least three feet square, and shall contain
a shelf at least one foot wide, at a conven-
lent height for writing. No person other
than the election officers and the chal-
lengers allowed by law, and those ad-
United for the purpose of voting as here
matter provided, shall be permitted with
in the guard rail, except by authority of
the election officers to keep order and en-
force the law. The number of such voting
booths shall not be less than one to every
100 voters who voted at the last preceding
election in the district The expense OF
providing booths and guard rails and
other things required in this act shall be
paid in the same manner as other election
expenses.
SEC. %. Any person desiring to vote
shall give his name and, if required to do
so, his residence, to the judges of election,
one of whom shall thereupon announce
the same in loud and distinct
tone of voice, clear and audible:
and if such name is found
on the register of voters by the officer
having charge thereof, he shall likewise
repeat said name and the voter shall be al
lowed to enter the space inciosed by the
guard rail. as above provided. One of the
judges shall give the voter one. and only
one, ballot, on the back of which such
judge shall indorse his initials in such
manner that they may be seen when the
ballot is properly folded, and the voters
name shall be Immediately checked on the
register list At all elections. when a
registry may be required, if the name of
any person SO desiring to vote at such
election is not found on the register of
voters, he shall not receive a ballot until
he shall have complied with The law pre-
scribing the manner and conditions of
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