Nevada County picayune., 1891-03-12
THE NEW ELECTION LAW.
Passed by the Arkansas Legisla
ture.


BE it ena acted by the General Assem-
bly, of the State eff Arkansas
Sec. |. That the Governor, Audi
tor and Secretary of State shall con-
stitute a State Board of Election
Commissioners, whose duty it shall
be, not more than ninety days nor
less than thirty days before any gen
eral election for State and county
officers, to appoint three qualified
electors as Commissioners in each
county to select election judges for
each voting precinct, and to perform
the otI.cr duties herein described =
No person who is candidate for any
office TO he voted for at such election,
or is deputy, or clerk or employe of
any silicer or person who Is a candi-
date for election, shall act as County
Commissioner. The appointment of
the County Commissioners shall be
in writing, under the hands of the
the State Board, and the said State
Board shall Immediately mail to each
County Commissioner, at the county
seat, a notice of his appointment,
and, in addition thereto, shall mail
to the Clerk Of the Circuit court in
such county Certificate of the ap-
pointment of such Commissioners,
and, upon the receipt of such cirtif-
cate, it shall be the duty of such
Circuit clerk to cause to be served
upon each of said Commissioners, by
the Sheriff, notice requiring said
Commissioners to appear before the
said Clerk on or before the day fixed
for entering upon their duties, and
take and subscribe to the oath pre-
scribed by section twenty, of article
nineteen, of the Constitution, which
said oath shall be endorsed on the
the Certificate, and, when so indorsed
said Certificate shall be filed in said
Office as record.
The said Commissioners shall hold
, Office until their SUCCESSORS are APP
pointed and qualified. Said Com
missioners shall meet at the court
house at least twenty days prior to
the general election, and shall or
ganize themselves into Board of
Election Commissioners by elccting
one member chairman and another
clerk. Each Commissioner shall have
one vote, and two shall constitute a
quorum, and the concurring votes of
any two shall decide all questions
before them. They shall, after the
organization as aforesaid, not less
than five days before any general
election, appoint three judges of
election for each voting precinct in
the county, and the clerk of the
board shall make a record of such
appointments, and shall file the same,
attested by the chairman and clerk
of the board. with the County Clerk.
If any judge so appointed shall die
or resign before the election, said
, board shall fill the vacancy, All of
said County Commissioners shall not
be members of the same political
party.
Any vacancy in the County Board
of Commissioners shall be filed by
appointment by the State Board of
Commissioners, in the same manner
as the County Commissioners are
originally appointed; and if it shall
occur that all, or majority, of the
Commissioners shall resign, refuse to
act, die, or their places become va
cant from any cause, so that there
shall not be a quorum in the office at
the time that said board is required
, to do and perform any of the acts or
things by this act required Of them,
then, and in that event, the County
Judge, Sheriff and County Clerk
shall, in the order herein named, ill
SAID vacancies for the time, and shall
perform the duties of Election Com
= missioners until the vacancies in said
board can be filed, as herein pro-
vided for.
Sec 2. The judges of election SC
, appointed shall be discreet persons
able to read and write the English
language, and qualified electors in
the precincts for winch they are ap-
pointed to act; and they shall not
he selected from the same political
party if competent persons OF differ
cnt politics can be found.
! Sec. 3. The judges of election ap-
, pointed under this act shall continue
| to he judges of election within their
respective precincts until the next