Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-08

O-udtes III IdlIS d-ldDleb LOT Oaru.
There will be guard rail in front OF
the booths where you give your name
and address to the ballot clerk, who will
announce the same to another ballot
clerk. If he finds you properly regis
tered he will staue So and the first one
will hand you one ballot.
The clerk will write the number of
your ballot opposite your name in the
register, and you proceed to the booth,
which you occupy alone, and prepare
your ticket in the following manner:
REMEMBER, a cross (X) always means
VOTE.
This X is ALWAYS made with RUBBER
STAMP, found in the booth. DON'T use
PEN or PENCIL to make it, or you LOSE
YOUR VOTE.
To vote for candidate place the X
opposite the name on the right hand
side of the column left for this purpose.
Remember that, under the latest de-
cision OF the supreme court, you only
vote for those candidates whose names
you have crossed in the proper squares.
There is no exception to this rule unless
you write the name of candidate in
the blank space left for that purpose. A
cross is not necessary after written
name.
Be careful not to vote for more candi-
dates for one Office than the ticket calls
for.
When a voter receives his ballot
from clerk at the polls he enters a
booth where he will be allowed ten
minutes in which to stamp his ticket,
the law requiring that there shall be
not less than one booth for every 80
electors qualified to vote in the precinct
In the booths he will find an ink pad
and rubber stamp that makes this
mark: X.
When the ballot is prepared, and be-
fore leaving the booth, it must be folded
in euch a manner that the number
printed upon it's back corresponding to
the one shown in the upper left hand
corner of the models), shall appear on
the outside. Care must also be taken
that it is folded in such way as not to
display any marks or crosses that have
been stamped upon its face. The ballot
is then ready to be handed to the in
spector.
The law also provides that no voter
shall show hie ballot after it is marked
to any person in such way as to reveal
its contents; and 'no voter shall place
any mark upon his ballot by which it
may be afterwards identified as the one
voted by himself"
A voter who cannot read, or is physi-
cally unable to prepare his ballot, may
swear to that fact and member Of the
election board will assist him.
Use only the rubber stamp, which
marks an x, Try the stamp first and
see that it makes an X clearly.
Presidential and vice presidential
electors can be voted for IN A GROUP.
But both state central committees have
decided that it is best to stamp each
name with an x, and then there will be
no possibility of losing the vote. Sc
stamp with care.
In the case of constitutional amend.
ments or any question to be answered
by ''yes" or mo" put the cross opposite
whichever you want to say.
ANY VOTER UNABLE TO READ or physic.
ally disabled, can choose an election Off
Ger to enter the booth with him and
mark his ballot.
Having finished marking, fold your
ballot in such a way that the names can
not be seen, and so that the NUMBER
printed on the back of the ballot, on the
narrow slip which is perforated, can be
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take the ballot folded. He will announce
your name and number OF your ticket
to the ballot clerk, who will see that the
number corresponds with those giver
you; if 80, the inspector will tear the
perforated piece from your ballot anc
destroy it, placing your ballot in the
box, and the ballot-clerk will then write
''voted" opposite your name on the reg
lister, and yon pass out
You can occupy the booth 10 minu tel
only in all. Any voter who spoils {
ballot can return it to the ballot clerk
who will give him another in it's place
one at time, NOT EXCEEDING THREE il
all.
DON'T make the X with pen or pencil
or you lose your vote. Use the rubbe
stamp.
You SCRATCH name when you do no
put the X opposite it.
DoN'T tear off the perforated portion o
your ticket yourself; the inspection
clerk does this.
None but official ballots, handed yo'