San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-03-05

ing shelves or compartments, where voters
| may conveniently mark their ballots, so
! that in the marking thereof they may be
| screened from the observation Of others,
and u guard rail shall he so placed that
only such persons as are inside said rail
| can approach within ten feet Of the ballot
| boxes and of such voting places
/ The arrangement shall be such that
| neither the ballot boxes nor the voting
! compartments shall be hidden from the
| view of those outside said guard rail-
The number of such compartments shall
| be not less than six nor more than ten at
each poll.
| No person other than the officers of
| election and voters. admitted as herein
| after provided, shall be permitted within
| said rail. except by authority OF the cleo
| tiOn officers in case OF violation or n
| threatened violation of law, fO1 the pur-
| pose of keeping order and enforcing the
| law, ana such persons, shall NIT remain
| there after the necessity therefor has
| ceased to exist.
| Each voting compartment shall be kept
| provided with proper supplies for mark
| ing ballots.
Sec Is. That any person desiring to
vote shall present himself at the polls and
| give his name and residence, giving street
| and number, If any, to one of the judges
| of election, who shall write the same
| down on list kept for that purpose, and
|
applicants Seriatim and announce such
| name in loud and distinct tone of voice.
| The voter shall then be subject to chal-
| lenge in the manner and with the effect
| now provided by law.
| If allowed to vote, his name shall be
checked off by said judge OF
| written down by another judge of cleo
ton on list kept for that purpose and
! known as list number two with the num-
bers corresponding to list number one.
The voter shall thereupon be allowed
| to enter the space within the guard rail.
and he shall be handed one ballot, and
on the back with his number and the sig
nature. initials or private mark OF the
officer delivering him the same.
No more voters shall be admitted with
in the guard rail at any one time than
| here are voting compartments.
| No communication shall be permitted
| between voter, after he shall have re-
ceived his ballot, and any other person
1 Except with an election officer until
| after the voters shall have voted and re-
l tired from the reserved space.
| Sec I6. That on receipt OF his ballot
| the voter shall forthwith, and without
I leaving the enclosed space, retire alone to
\ one of the voting compartments, and shall
prepare his ballot by running line
| through the names of all candidates that
| he does not wish to vote for, and filling
| in the names of the candi dates OF his
choice in the blank spaces provided there
l fore, if necessary. And in the case OF q
| question submitted to popular vote, by
| running line through the answer he
| does not desire to give.
Before leaving the voting shelf the
| voter shall fold his ballot without dis
l playing the marks he made thereon, and
he shall keep the same SO folded tthe
names of the candidates and the voters
marks bring on the inside, and the Oil.
| cial endorsements ON the outside) until
| he has voted.
Should the voter fail or refuse to so
| fold his ballot and fail to abstain from
| disclosing the contents OF his ballot by
signs, token or otherwise, before the
same shall have been voted, his vote shall
not be received nor counted.
The voter shall vote before leaving the
| enclosed space, and shall deliver his fold
| ed ballot to the officer in charge OF the
| ballot box, with the official endorsements
| uppermost, and the officer in charge snail
| not permit said vote to be cast II such
| folded ballot is not an official ballot and
| does not bear the genuine endorsements
l of the city clerk and of the officer who
| delivered il to the voter. and such officer
| sballnot unfold said ballot, but IL salts
| fed it is a genuine ballot, he shall at once
| deposit it in the box in the presence OF
| the voter.
| Sec, II. That the voter shall mark and
| deliver his ballot without delay, and shall
| quit said enclosed space as soon as he has
No such voter shall be allowed to
| occupy a voting shelf already occupied
| bv another: nor shall he remain in the
| compartment or reserved space more
| than five minutes after receiving his bal
| lot. NJ,
| has voted shall be allowed to re-enter said
enclosed space during the election, and
no person shall be allowed therein for any
other purpose than to vote except the
| election officers,
| II shall be the duty of the election
| officers to secure and enforce the obser-
| vance of these provisions.
| Sec. Is. That no person shall take or
remove any ballot from the polling space
| before the close of the polls.
| fla yotor spoilS ballot, he may success
| sively obtain others, one at time, not
| exceeding three in all, upon returning
| each spoiled one.
| The ballot thus returned shall be i'm
| medately cancelled, and, together with
| those not distributed to the voters, shall
| be returned to the city clerk and receipt
| ed for by him.
| Sec 10. That if the voter leaves more
| names unmarked than there are persons
| to be elected to office, or II the judges
\ of election cannot determine the voters
| choice for any Office to be filled, or on any
| ouestion submitted to popular vote, his
| ballot shall not be counted for such
| Office or on such question:
No ballots without tbs official endorse
| ment shall be allowed to be deposited in
| the ballot box, and none but othcial Dal-
| lots provided in accordance with the pro-
| visions of this ordinance shall be coun-
| ted.
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