The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-12-24
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THE SEW LAW roo.

Under the Head DISCRIMINATION Papers
Extract from the Law on the Subject.
This paper has from time TO time
given brief Interpretation of the new
ballot law but to the information in
the following article, however, is NOR,
complete, and will be found very use
ful to those whose duty it will be tc
put the new ballot law into operation
for the spring or February election and
20 all voters. The facts are Cleaned
from very careful reading of every
thing in the law that pertains TO Dor
ough and township elections.
The language Of the law, il seems
contemplates nominations in each
election district 10y the two dominant
parties at primary meetings, or eau
cuses. Certificates Of such nomination,
must be made out and signed by the
presiding officer and the secretary OF
secretaries of such primary meeting OF
caucus, and shall he sworn or affirmed
10 by them before an officer qualified
to administer oaths, to be true to the
best of their knowledge and belief
Nominations may also be made by
/ what is termed "nomiuution papers.
It often trauspires that no party nomi.
nations are made for the spring cleo
/ tion, but "Citizens'n tickets are voted.
Such tickets will come under the head
Of nomination papers, and are regu-
lated as follows in Section 81
Nominations of candidates for any
public Office may also be made 10y
nomination papers, signed by qualified
elections f. of the election dis
trict for which the nomination is made
/ =" The signers shall number at
least three per centum Of the largest
entire vote for any officer elected at
the last preceding election in the cleo
| ton district for which said nomination
papers are designed to be made.
Each signer shall add to his sigma.
turo his place of residence and occupa.
tion, and the signatures must be
vouched for by the aifidavits of at least
five of the signers.'
1 Independent candidates are not de-
barred, but to have their names printed
on the ballot they must come under
the same regulation that governs nom
iuation papers. In other words, the
Independent candidate must procure
signers to his nomination. Certificates
of nomination and of nomination pa
| pers for township and borough officers
shall be filed with the auditors of the
respective townships or boroughs for
which they are made. Certificates of
nomination, shall be filed ten days be-
fore the day of election and certificates
Of nomination papers shall be filed
seven days before the day of election
All such certificates shall be open ia
| public inspection and shall be pre-
served in the office in which they are
filed for period Of at least two years
Objections to certificates or to pa
pers, as to conformity or nonconfor
nifty to law, shall be heard and deter.
mined by the auditors or majority OF
them. Such objections must be in
writing and filed with the auditors
within three days after the last day foi
the filing of such certificates and
papers. Objections to the validity OF
certificates and papers other than OBJ
iections as to form shall be filed with
the prothonotary, and the court, OF
any Judge thereof shall immediately
upon notification proceed to hear such
objections
Any person whose name has been
presented as a candidate may cause
his name to be Withdrawn from uomi
nation by request in writing, and a
committee appointed by the primary
meeting or caucus making the original
nomination shall have the power tc
place on the ticket substitute foI
the name withdrawn, the manner of Sc
doing being subject to the same regu.
lation that governed the original. In
case of substitute nomination paper
not filed by a committee but signed by
citizens, then it shall only be neces.
sary that two-thirds of the signers OF
the substituted nomination shall have
been signers of the original paper,
In case substituted nomination is
transmitted to the hetownship or borough
auditors after the ballots have been
printed the said auditors shall prepare
and distribute with the ballots suitable
slips of papers (stickersl bearing the
substituted name, together with the
title of the office, which shall be offered
to each voter with the regular ballot
and may be affixed thereto.
The county commissioners and audi.
tors shall ascertain the offices to be
filed and shall be responsible for the
accurate printing of the ballots, and
for the safe keeping of the same while
in their possession or that Of then
subordinates or agents. The auditors
shall cause the ballots 90 be printed
aud to be distributed TO the proper
election board. and they shall certify
the cost of the printing and the cost OF
distribution to the county commits
sioners for payment as part of the
county election expense.
The form of the ballot for township
or borough elections is in every re
spect similar to the form used at the
last or November election, excepting
that the ballot will begin with the
names belonging to the political party
which polled the highest number OF
votes at the last preceding election
As to size, Section 10 provides that all
the ballots used at the same voting
! place at any election shall be alike and
, be at least six inches long and fou
{ inches wide. They shall be printed
with the same kind or kinds of type
which shall not be smaller than tn,
size known as BREWER, upon whit,
paper, without any impression or mari
. TO distinguish one from another. Eacl
ballot shall be attached to a stub anC
. all the ballots for the same voting
place shall he bound together in con
Venieut numbers In books In sucl
I manner that each ballot may be de
7 tached and removed separately.
The auditors shall provide for eacl
election district seventy-hye ballot
for every fifty and fraction of lift!
voters on the assessors list, and an
equal number of specimen ballots, an,
shall obtain from the county commits
[ siouers the requisite cards of iustruc
ton, which shall be delivered with tn
ballots to the judges of election th
the day before the day of election.
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