Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-02-26

L ucc0byO nCAU pACOOCulllS tuo Ady VI cA-
election, from 8 o'clock in the morning
until O'Clock in the evening must at
tend at the place of holding the election
for the suppose of making corrections
in said lists, and they must enter in
said lists all names of persons proyerly
shown to be entitled to vote at said
ection and every voter IN the precinct
shonld examine said list and see that
his name is listed
The polls shall be opened at 9 o'clock
in the morning and kept open till S
o'clock in the afternoon, and written
notice OF the hour of closing the polls
shall be conspicuously posted outside
the polling place.
During voting hours no persons shall
be allowed to approach within six feet
of the ballot boxes or the booths or bal
lot comp artments except eleltors eng
aged in receiving, preparing or deposit
ing their ballots, without permission of
the judges of election.
The ballot used at the city election
shall be tinted red, upon which shall be
printed the names of all candidates for
Office which are to be voted for in the
city for Municipal office.
These ballots are printed by the City
Clerk and on the seventh day before el-
ection sample ballot shall be printed
and filed for examination. In voting
all electors shall be allowed to go I'M
'molested to the polling room and return
therefrom in the same manner and
neither voters or others shalt be allowed
to congregate within hundred feet of
the polling room. One of the judges Of
election shall have charge Of, and hand
to and receive the ballots from each el-
ector voting. Two judges of opposite
political parties shall before voting be-
gins or as soon as possible place their
initials on the backs of all the ballots.
.~. MANNER OF VOTING.
The JudEa Of e'ecctson shall hand to
,eash ystsrons ballot of the sina that is
to es Y1se1. and The %yotsr will then re-
tir,' RS, re tbs booths a. / make q
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,ds,ssi sis,s may be- seen 81. tho hack,
md aasal then sand, 10 slsa irtspss Judge
'Qe.hs Shall place III ID The proper box.
Should voter spoil a ballot he shall
return it to the judges, who shall pre-
serve it and furnish the voter with an
other ballot. II a cross Ky mark is
placed opposite the names of the two or
more candidates for the same Office, the
ballot shall not be counted for those of.
ficers.
Voters may take sample ballot with
them for use in assisting them to mark
the official ballot.
If any person before the closing of the
polls remove from the polling room any
of the ballots printed for that election,
he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
shall be punished by fine Of not more
than one hundred dollars, or imprisOn.
ment not exceeding six months, or both.
When avoter shall make oath that from
physical disability, or because he can
not read or cannot read the english Ian
guage, he cannot mark Ills ballot, he may
call to his aid one or more of the judges
of election, or qualified eiector, who
may read the ballot to and mark the bal.
lot for such voter, in the presence of
two of the judges of election, provided
that no person shall so mark the ballot
of more than three voters in any one
election district at one election such per-
son shall mark the ballot as directed by
the voter and not otherwise.
Any judge Or any person marking
the ballot of the voter who shall
disclose to any other person the name
of any candidate voted for by such cleo
tor, or shall mark the ballot in any way
other than as directed by the voter shall
be guilty of misdemeanor and on con-
viction shall be punished by a fine Of
not less than 80 dollars nor more than
200 dollars or by imprisonment in the
county Jail not less than ten days mol
more than ninety days or both such fine
and Imprisonment.
Any person in the polling room OF
compartment who shall influence or at
tempt to influence vote for any partic.
ular candidate shall be guilty of misde-
meanor and may be punished by fin,
and imprisonment for each separate of
Tense.
The judges of election shall receive
no ballot nor place the same in the bal
lot box II, after having marked it, TIT
voter shows the ballot to any one excep
rs provided by law.
The qualification Of a legal voter ant
the right and manner Of challenge il
not materially changed by the new law
F. W.LYoN, City Attorney.
| ~ Electric bells installed in resi-
licences and business houses b,
Superintendent Baker. ef the Electri,
&c Water co. Prices and information
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