Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-24
HOW TO VOTE.
The Australian Ballot and How
to Mark it.
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE VOTERS.

LIMO 1hUO11ONS III LID NO1bho'
What should be Carefully Read by All
Voters Before Going to the Polls-The
Best Plan is to Observe the First Method
Outlined and Ballot the straight Party
Ticket
In view of the approaching election all
citizens should thoroughly scqusint them
selves with the provisions OF the Austria
lian ballot system. a summary OF which
is herewith submitted for the instruction
of the voters:
HOW 10 MARK THE BALLOT.
The voter should understand that
under the Law no one has a right to in
terrupt him or electioneer with him
within one hundred 900 feet of the
polls. Nor has any one a right to see
his ballot. or attempt to discover how it
is marked. He has no right to show the
marking on his ballot even to an election
judge.
The voter should enter the voting
place and announce his name and, if re-
auired. his place of residence If he il
entitled to vote at that poll, he will he
invited inside the guard rail. and one of
the judges will hand him a ballot. He
| will Immediately enter one of the booths
and proceed to mark his ballot. He will
| find on his ballot as many columns of
names as there are political parties in
the field. each one headed BY the party
name. To the left of each party name
he will find circle, while to the lett of
each candidates name he will find
square. These circles and squares are tn
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| Gates his desire to vote for the candidate
! of Lis choice. Remember that erasing
. name is of no effect. Remember that
it is the CROSS (X). placed in the proper
place, that counts as a vote; nothing Uut
| cross * should be used, no other
| mark, or scratching out of name, viii
do.
There are several methods of marking
| the ballot provided by law, either
| directly or incidentally. Taking up
these methods of marking in their order,
we have:
FIRST METHoD-VOTING THE STRAIGHT
PARTY TICKET.
In order to do TINS make cross (X)
| mark in the circle TO the left of the head
of the party ticket you desire to support.
If the cross appears to the left of the
| word Democratic at the head of the
| column, this cross indicates that the
voter desires to vote the straight Demo-
cratic ticket, and his vote will be 50
| counted. If you desire to vote the
straight Republican ticket, you should
place the cross in the circle to the left of
the word Republican at the head of the
| ticket, and your vote will be 20 counted.
| The straight Prohibition or other ticket
| is, of course, voted in the same manner,
| that is, by placing a cross in the circle
to the left of the appellation of the
| ticket you desire to vote. Make no other
mark on the ballot under this method.
SECOND METHOD.
| Voting the straight party ticket with
| the exception of one or more candidates
running for Office to which one person
is to be elected. For instance, we will
suppose you wish to vote the straight
Republican ticket with the exception
| that you desire to vote for the Demo-
cratic candidate for secretary of state,
| and the Prohibition candidate for
auditor. Place cross (X) in the circle
to the left of the word Republican at the
top of the ballot, if you were going
to vote the straight ticket, then place .
cross in the square to the left of the
| name w D. the
| Democratic column and a cross in the
square to the left of the name Samuel
I'D. Noe in the Prohibition column.
Make no other marks on the ticket and
it will be counted for all of the Repub-
lican candidates except those for secre-
tary of state and auditor, and for these
offices it will be counted for the candi-
dates on the other tickets opposite whose
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THIRD METHOD.
Voting the straight ticket with the ex-
eeption OF one or more candidates run
ming for offices to which two or more
persons are to be elected, as presidential
electors, congressman at large, trustees
of the Illinois university, member of the
house of representatives, etc. This is
accomplished as follows:
MAKE NO MARX IN THE CIRCLES AT THE