The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-10-29
HOW TO PREPARE 1T.
Learn How to Vote Your Ballot and
Resolve to Vote 1t Early.

The object of the new law is to sur
round the act of balloting with the ut
most secrecy, and with that idea in mind
a complete comprehension of the system
ought not to be difficult. The ballots
heretofore published are in the form in
which theywill be presented to the voters.
The four tickets are printed on one
sheet OF paper, and the voter will cast
the entire ballot, after preparing it so
that his choice OF candidates is made
plain. The only thing about which any
uncertainty can exist is that of prepar-
ing the ballot for casting. Secretary of
State Ryan has prepared and sent to all
the Boards of Election in the State very
minute directions in very simple form.
He says:
1. Step to the judges table and give
name and residence to the election
officer holding the ballots, who shall
write the voters name upon the main
stub of the ticket in the blanks thereon.
The election officer will then mark upon
the secondary stub the electors full
name.
2. The ballot and secondary stub is
then detached from the main stub and
handed to the elector, who passes throuh
the guard rail to one of the voting
shelves.
8. The voter, being alone in the COM
partment, shall prepare his ballot by
marking on the left hand side of the
name he desires to vote for cross mark,
thus: X. If question is to be voted
on he shall mark this X on the left hand
side of the question.
4. If the voter wants to vote straight
ticket, that is, for each and every candi.
date on his party ticket, he may make
the cross mark (X) before the name of the
party which heads the ticket he wants
to vote for. But he should remember
that if he makes cross mark (X) before
the name of one party and then also
makes cross mark (X) before one or
more candidates of another party,
his vote will be counted for the candi-
dates before whose names the marks are
placed.
5. If voter marks more names than
there are persons to be elected, or if it
be impossible to discover the voters in
tention from his ballot, it shall not be
counted.
6. As long as the voters choice can
be determined from his ballot it shall moi
be rejected for any technical errors.
z. A voter may vote for any qualified
person whether his name be printed on
the ballot or not. To do this the voter
| need but to fill in by writing with ink
or black lead pencil, under the name o.
the Office, the name of the person he
desires to vote for, and place before the
name on the left hand side cross marl
Ky.
8. All marking or writing on ballo,
shall be in black lead pencil or ink.
8. When the voter has prepared hit
ballot, he shall so fold it, concealing al
marks thereon, as to expose only the
endorsement and fac-simile signatures O
the Election Board.
10. The voter shall hand his ballo
to one of the election officers, who shall
detach the secondary stub and deposi
the ballot in the box.
| Any elector may receive assistance il
preparing his ballot if he declare to tn
presiding judge of election that he i
unable to mark his ballot. If he so de
clare he shall receive the assistance o
two judges of election belonging to tn
different political parties.