The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-29
THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT LAW.

Sec. 81. Provides manner of proceed
ing in Multnomah, and other counties
which have no county clerk to act.
Sec. %, Provides the form of pollbooks
TO be kept by the judges and clerks of an
election.
Sec. %. Provides the manner of OPEN
ing the ballot box, taking out and read
ing the ballots.
Sec. "a. Provides the form of the tally
sheets, manner of tallying the count,
preparing the certificate, signing, etc.
Sec. %. Immediately after canvassing
the votes in the manner aforesaid, the
judges, before they separate or adjourn,
shall enclose the poll-books in separate
covers and securely seal the same.
They shall also enclose the tally-sheets
in separate envelopes and seal the same
securely. They shall also enclose all
the ballots and stubs strung on strings
as aforesaid, and seal the same securely.
And they shall, in writing, with pen and
ink, specify the. contents and address
each of said packages upon the outside
thereof to the county clerk of the
county in which the election precinct
IL situated.
Sec. 26. Same subject. Provides
how to be conveyed to the county clerk.
Sec. 27. In the canvass of the votes
only white ballots furnished under the
provisions of this act shall be counted,
and any ballot from which it is impossible
to determine the electors choice for any
of the offices ehall be void and shall not
be counted.
Sec. %. Provides for the care and dis
posal of rejected ballots To be sent to
the county clerk.
Sec. %. Any ballot from which it is
possible to determine the electors
choice for part of the offices shall be
counted for such part, but the remainder
of the ballot from which it is impossible
to determine the electors choice shall
be void as to such defective part, and
such defective part shall not be counted.
The judges shall disregard misspelling
or abbreviations of the names of candi-
dates for Office if it can be ascertained
from such ballot for whom it was in
tended. Every such ballot not counted
AOA any party OC lhIuCuidJcly Gil
dorsed on the back thereof with pen and
ink by the chairman, "Not counted for
......" (stating what office or ,offices),
who shall sign his initials thereto.
Sec. 80. In the canvass of the votes,
all ballots found in the box marked
@'State and district" which are marked
"State," as provided in section 81 of
This chon ho
only for such state offices as are to be
filed at the election, and all ballots so
marked as estate and district as pro-
vided in section 81, shall be considered
and counted only for such state and dis
trict Offices as are to be filed at the cleo
ton, and the names of persons thereon
Tor other than state or district Offices
shall not be considered or counted.
Sec. 81. Any convention of delegates,
and any assembly OF electors, as herein
after defined, and also individual cleo
tors to the number hereinafter speci-
fed, by causing a certificate of nomina-
ton to be duly prepared and filed in the
manner hereinafter provided, may nom
mate one candidate for each public
Office to be filed at the election, whose
name shall be placed upon ballots, to be
furnished as hereinafter provided. A con-
vention of delegates, within the mean
ing of this act, is an organized body of
delegates representing political party,
which, at the election next preceding,
polled at least 8 per cent. of the entire
vote cast in the state, county, precinct,
or other electoral district for which the
nomination is made. An assembly of
electors, within the meaning of this act,
is an organized body of not less than 100
electors of the state, or electoral division
thereof, for which the nomination is
made.
Sec. 81. Every such certificate of nom-
ination made by such convention or as
sembly may contain the name of one
candidate for each Office to be filed at
the election. 1t shall state such facts
concerning the convention or assembly
as are require by section 81 of this act
for its acceptance, and as are required to
be stated therein by section "a of this
act. In conclusion, it shall be signed by
the presiding officer and the secretary of
the convention or assembly by which it
purports to be made, and an affidavit
shall be m'tde thereon by such presiding
officer and secretary, and subscribed and
sworn to Cor affirmed) by them before
some person authorized to administer
oaths, to the effect that the statements
therein are true, and the certificate of
the oath or affirmation shall accomDapy
the certificate of nomination.
Sec, 33. Every such certificate of nom
ination made by individual electors as