The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-08
DIRECTIONS TO VOTERS
On Election Dag as Required by the
New and Amended Statute.

!. The voter must be satisfied that
he is legally qualified voter before
offering TO vote, that is TO say that he
is bona fide citizen of the State and
has been for as much as year: and of
the county as much as go days, and of
the district at the time of offering to
vote, and Is q years of age. and not a.
pauper, or of unsound mind.
1t is crime liable TO indictment
for any person TO vote who does not In
good faith believe he is entitled TO
vote.
9. The person Offering to vote must
see to it that he is lawfully registered
by the assessor of his district, as re-
quired by law, and a person may upon
application to the assessor OF his as
sessment district, be registered at any
time before 80 days next before the
election.
| And If not registered as aforesaid,
the person offering to vote may make
affidavit before the commissioners OF
election that he is qualified and le-
gal voter of the precinct, and set forth
in it his name, age, residence, occupd-
ton, place, or places OF residence during
the IL months mart prior to the election,
,cith the date of any remorals ,cithin that
| time, and the names OF tto0 persons ,oho
hare personal kno,clsdge Of has residence
,oithin the county for sirtN days neat pre-
ceding the election.
Forms of such affidavit shall be
prepared aud printed under the direc-
tion.of the Board OF Ballot Commits
sioners, and distributed to the several
voting places. Sec. 40. And false
swearing in said affidavit, or in an
swering questions, &C., before the as
SCISSOR on being registered is declared a
crime.
| 3. The person on entering the voting
booth or room on election day to vote,
(and not more than one voter shall en-
ter or be therein at the same time ex-
elusive of the poll clerks and two chal
lengers) shall give his name and resi-
dence to one of the poll clerks, who
shall thereupon announce the same in
a loud and distinct tone of voice, the
poll clerk shall then deliver to him one,
and only one ticket or ballot. Sec. So.
On receipt of his ballot the voter
shall forthwith, and without leaving
the enclosed space, retire alone to one
of the booths, and shall then inspect
and prepare his ballot as he wishes to
vote. This ballot must contain the
name and Office for which each can
didate is running, in separate columns,
all democrats in one column, and all
republicans in another with a ----
space below the name of each candi-
date wide enough to write another
name. After the ballot is prepared as
the voter wishes to vote he will strike
off or erase all other names on said
ballot but those he wishes to vote for;
and this being done the voter unless
he elects to vote an open BALLOT shall
| fold the same so that the face
thereof shall not be exposed and so
that the names of the poll clerks there
on shall be seen, and thus folded the
voter shall then vote forthwith, and
before leaving the polling place, and
give his said ballot with his name to
one of the commissioners of election
who shall proclaim in a loud and dis
tinct tone, the name of the person so
voting and hand the ballot to another
of said commissioners of a different
political party than his own, and if
majority of said Board of Commission
ers are satisfied that said ballot is
single and that the person is entitled
to vote; the ballot shall be deposited
in the ballot box, and thereupon the
voter shall retire Immediately from
the election room and outside the soft.
4. No voter or person Offering TO
vote shall have or hold any converse
ton or communication with any other
person than the poll clerks or commits
sioners of elections while in the cleo
ton room.
5. Any voter who shall uninten-
tionally spoil, deface or mutilate the
ballot so delivered to him, may on re-
turning the same to the poll clerks,
receive another ballot in place thereof,
and if he does not vote a ballot deliv-
cred to him, shall before leaving the
election room return such ballot to the
poll clerks.
g.. Any voter who declares, or indi-
Gates to the poll clerks that he cannot
read or write, or that by reason Of
physical disability he is unable to pre-
pare his ballot may declare his choice
Of candidates to the poll clerks, who
in the presence of the voter, and in
presence of each other, shall prepare
his ballot for voting in the manner
provided by law, and on request of the
voter, shall read over to him the
names Of the candidates on the ballots
as so prepared. Or, such voter may
require the poll clerks to say or indi-
cate to him the relative positions that
is to say, which are the democratic
and which the republican candidates
on such ballot for the respective offices
to be voted for, whereupon the voter
shall retire to one of the booths or
compartments to prepare his ballot in
the manner hereinbefore provided.
And any poll clerk who shall deceive
any voter in selecting or preparing any
ballot, or prepare the same in any 9TH
er way.than as requested by said voter
shall be guilty of felony and on con-
viction thereof shall be imprisoned in
the penitentiary not less than two nor
more than years.
p. The undersigned at the re-
quest of voters, prepared with care,
the foregoing provisions of the new
election law, that voters may familiar
ize themselves with the requirements
of said law so far as the voter is con-
cerned, and thus not only be the bet
ter able to vote as he wishes on cleo
ton day, and not through ignorance
of said laws possibly lose his VOTE but
to enable him to vote intelligently and
with despatch. P. I'll. KICK.
The Flop Of an Eminent Republican.
A dispatch from Indianapolis