Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-04
HOW TO Do 1T.
Method of Voting by the Aus
tralian Ballot.
GUARDS AROUND THE VOTER
Penalties For Doing or Mol Doing Whole
Lol oil Things Speciicd-A Sample
oil the Ticket 10 be Voted.

AB the Austruilhn system OF NOllnb
has been adopted In cities Of 10000
population and over, and w1Ab,be used
In Fort Worth In the coming election,
THE GAZETTE gives the following rules
and instructions for voting. kindly pre-
pared and furnished by Registrar
Farmer:
The officers Of election will furnish
each person entitled 10 vote with one
ballot Of the kind to be voted, with the
words, "Ohlcial Ballot stamped
thereon with a rubber stamp.
The vote will then retire alone to
one Of the stalls or booths provided for
the purpose and mark out the names Of
all the candidates except the ones for
whom he wishes to vote, and shall not
remain in or occupy any such compart-
ment longer than may be necessary to
prepare his ballot.
Any voter who cannot read or write.
or who by blindness or other physical
disability is unable to prepare his bal
lot, shall, upon request 20 the presiding
officer, receive the assistance Of two Of
the judges In the preparation Of his
ballot.
He viii then fold his ballot in such
way as TO conceal the face Of 1t and
hand the same 10 one OF the receiving
judges, who will announce tho name of
such voter In an audible voice and pass
said ticket to the other receiving Judge
who will then deposit 1t in the ballot
box.
The voters will then rotire from the
voting room. Voters are not permitted
To remove any Of the ballots from the
voting place.
Any person Offering to vote shall pre-
sent a certificate Of registration, or in
case he has lost or mislaid his certif-
cate, he shall so state, and II his name
shall appear ON the registered list and
if he is known to the judges to be the
person, or can furnish satisfactory evil
denco that no is the person whose name
is on the said list, then he shall be en-
titled 10 vote, and one Of the judges
shall stamp or write opposite his name
ON the registered list the words,
voted; certificate iost.n
d. ring the election and counting OF
ballots no person Othor that the Judges
and clerks of election and the electors
admitted for the purpose of providing
their ballots and voting, shall be adj
mitted or permitted to be within the
guard rail,
Any election officer who shall dis
close to any person the name Of any
candidate for whom any clcctOr has
voted or give any information by
which ii can be asCertained for whom
any electOr has voted, or any Judge or
clerk election or other officer abont
the po'ls who shall do any electioneer-
ing on election day, or any
person who shall do any
electioneering on election day
within any polling place or within
thirty feet OF any polling place, or any
person who shall knowingly apply or
receive any ballot In any polling place
other than that In which he is entitled
to vote, or any person who shall show
his ballot after it is marked to and per-
son in such a way AS to reveal the con-
tents thereof, or the name Of the can
didate or candidates for whom he
marked his ballot, or any person who
shall, contrary to law, examine his bal
lot or solicit the voter to
show the same, or person or
other than an officer Of election
who shall deliver any ballot to an
eiector, or any person who shall deliver
ballot TO the presiding officer to be
voted except the one received from
any one who shall, contrary to,lnw.
place any mark upon or do anything to
his ballot by which Il may afterward
be identified as the one voted by any
particular individual, upon conviction
shall be punished by u fine not less than
$50 and not more than $500. or by i'm
prisonmcnt in the county Jail not less
than three months nor more than ono
year, or both, in the discretion OF the
court,
The following names taken from the
list Of nominees for county and precinct
Offices will serve to illustrate the ballot
that will be furnished the voters of the
city OF Fort Worth ON the eighth day
of November (this list being about one
sixth Of the whole ticket, and the
voter in the preparation of his ticket
will mark out all the names OF the can
didates except the one for whom he
wishes w vote:
COUNTY BALLOT.
Sheriff.. y, Euless, Democrat.
Sheriit-Lon Barklcy, Republican.
Sheriii-Sam Farmer, Peoples.
Treasurer-Thos, b. Collins, Demo
crat
Treasuror-J. NJ. Benbrook, Re
publican
rreasurer-Jno, sublett, Peoples.
Tax Collector. r. Hovenkamp,
Tax Collector, J. Putnam, Re
publican.
Tax Collector--,I. NJ. Moore. PEOPLES.
Surveyor. j. Goodieuow, Demo
crnt
Surveyor c. Terry, Republican.
Surypynr- NJ Gsi, 49,.