Nevada County picayune., 1891-02-05

ing places for which they have beer
appointed, respectively, shall be fur.
nished seats at or near the judges
table in the polling room, where they
may see and hear all that transpires
therein, including the counting OF
the ballots and the certifcation OF
the returns. Upon entering the poll
ing room every such witness shall
take oath, in writing, to never dis
close the vote of any elector, unless
required to do so as a witness in a
judicial proceeding.
Sec. 21. No witness of election
shall take any part in the conduct of
any election, or obstruct or interfere
with the judges or clerks in the per-
formance of their duties. But any
such witness may call the attention
OF the judges to any person propos-
ing to vote whom he does not believe
to be qualified elector, and may
keep written memorandum of the
names of all persons voting whom he
does not believe to be qualified cleo
tor. He may also keep memoran-
dunn of any other proceeding or con-
duct on the part of the judges or
clerks, or the Sheriff or deputy Sher-
iff, or any other person, which may
appear to him to be unlawful or ir.
regular.
Sec. %. The Judges and clerks
shall not separate, or leave the poll
ing room, or permit the ballot box
to be taken therefrom, until they
haye counted all the ballots and du-
ly certified the returns, and pro-
claimed the result at the door.
Sec. %. Every person who shall
falsely make or fraudulently destroy
any certificate of nomination, or any
part thereof, or file any certificate
of nomination, knowing the same, or
any part thereof, to be false or sup
press any nomination which has been
duly filed, or any part thereof; or
forge or falsely write the name or in
itials of any judge of election on bal
lot, shall be deemed guilty of felo-
ny, and on conviction thereof, pun
ished by confinement at hard labor
in the penitentlary not less than one
year or more than five years.
Sec. "a. Every public officer, up
on whom any duty is imposed by
this act, who shall wilfully neglect or
omit to perform such duty, or who
shall do anything which is by this
act forbidden, other than the things
specifically enumerated in section 23
hereof, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be punished by remov-
al from office, and Imprisonment in
the county Jail not less than six
months nor more than twelve months,
or by fine of not less than one hun
dred dollars nor more than five hun
dred dollars, or by both such fine
and imprisonment.
Sec. %. No officer of election or
witness of election shall ever disclose
the vote OF any clector, except as a
witness in a judicial proceeding
Each violation of this section shall
be deemed misdemeanor, and shall
be punishable by fine of not less
than fifty nor more than two hundred
dollars, and Imprisonment in the
county Jail not less than ten days
nor more than three months.
Sec. 20. No officer Of election
shall do any electioneering on elec-
ton day. No person whomsoever
shall do any electioneering in any
polling room, or within one hundred
feet of any polling room on election
day.
Sec 27. Whenever it shall appear
by affidavit that an error or omission
has occurred in the publication of
the names or description of the can
didates nominated for office, or in
the printing of the ballots, the Cir
cult Court Of any county, or the
Judge thereof in vacation, or if the
Circuit Judge be then absent from
the county, the Judge of the County
Court shall, upon the application OF
any elector, by order, require the
County Clerk to immediately correct
such error or omission, or show
cause why the same should not be