Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-03

| age of official ballots to be delivered to
some member OF the board of election
inspectors of each voting precinct as
many stamps bearing q cross X to-
gether with ink pads, erasing stamp, or
other apparatus necessary for use, as
may be necessary, at least two stamps
or other apparatus being furnished for
every booth erected.
Whenever constitutional amendment
or other question is proposed to be voted
upon by the electors, the substance of
such amendment or other question shall
be clearly indicated upon the ballot, and
below the same upon the ballot shall be
placed in separate lines the words Yes"
and "No." The elector shall designate
his vote by cross Xxi placed opposite
the word "Yes" or the word no"
In all townships, and all voting pre-
cincts In cities, the township board of
each township, and the various officers
whose duty 1t may be to designate and
prescribe the place or places of holding
general elections, shall cause to be
erected in the room where elections are
to be held, railing or fence four feet
in height, which railing or fence shall be
placed through and across the room, and
shall cause gates to be erected in said
railing. The entrance gate shall be in
charge Of gatekeeper appointed at the
opening Of the polls by the Board of
Election Inspectors; and duly sworn to
allow no person to pass through said
gate and enter said railing except as
otherwise provided in this act, except to
vote or TO assist some elector In the
preparation OF his ballot, as provided in
this act, and no person shall be allowed
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vote, or to assist an elector in the
preparation of his ballot, and as
soon as the elector has voted he
shall retire without and shall not again
be admitted within the railing, and only
as many electors as there are booths
shall be allowed within the railing at
one and the same time, and the electors
shall be admitted In the order in which
they shall apply The entrance gate
shall be placed at one side OF the room,
and on the inside of said gate booth or
temporary room shall be erected. At
least one such booth shall be provided
at each polling place, and not less than
one for each hundred persons entitled to
vote thereat, as shown by the last pre-
ceding registration of electors, and
built with walls not less than six feet
high, and In such a manner that the
person preparing the ballot shall be con-
cealed from all other persons. Said
railing shall also contain an exit gate,
which shall be under the care Of an
officer appointed by the board and duly
sworn, as above.
At the opening of the polls, after the
organization of and in the presence of
the board of inspectors, one of the in
spectors shall open the packages OF bal
lots In such q manner as to preserve
the seal intact. He shall then deliver
to one Of the inspectors, to be designat-
ed by the board, fifty of the ballots, and
shall place the stamps for marking the
ballots in the booths, two In each. The
inspector so designated shall at once
proceed to write his initials in ink on
the upper left-hand corner Of Che back
of each Of said ballots In his ordinary
and without any distin-
mark Of any kind. As each |
successive elector calls for ballot an
other one OF the inspectors shall deliver |
to him the first signed of the fifty bal |
lots, and as the supply OF ballots in the |
hands of the inspectors shall decrease,
additional ballots shall be signed by the /
same Inspector, 50 that at least twenty
i've ballots so signed shall be at all |
times In the hands Of the inspector de-
Iivering the ballot to the elector.
Herewith is given copy Of ticket |
used to illustrate the method of voting
Under the new law, and as near as prac-
ical, the ballot shall be in the form
shown.
The tickets are oil placed in the hands
II the inspectors. When the voter Is
'eady to vote he passes within the gate
md receives a ticket from an Inspector,
Who places his own initials upon its
margin. The voter takes the ticket and
'nters one OF the booths and prepares It
" marking OF stamping, according to
he instructions which will be printed on
he ticket and on printed cards placed