The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-09-09

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in the same voting room at any one
time. Watchers shall be required to
show their certificates when requested
to do so.
Until the polls are closed no person
shall be allowed in the room outside
of the said enclosed space, except
these watchers, voters not exceeding
ten at any one time, who are awaiting
their turn to prepare their ballots, and
peace officers when necessary for the
preservation Of the peace.
No person, when within the voting
room, shall electioneer or solicit votes
for any party or candidate, nor shall
any written or printed matter be post
ed up within the said room, except as
required by law.
SECTION IS. No list or memoran-
dun Of the names of voters, except
such lists as are expressly authorized
by law, shall be made within the vot-
ing room by any person or officer, nor
shall any list or memorandum of the
numbers marked upon the ballots be
made or kept, excep: such lists as are
expressly authorized by law; Provided,
That any voter may make memoran-
DUN of the number of his own ballot,
and the watchers may keep their poll
books and challenge lists.
| After the closing Of the polls and be-
fore the ballot boxes are opened all
the lists Of voters upon which the num-
bers of the ballots are recorded, as
now required by law, shall be placed
in separate sealed covers, properly
marked, and the stubs of all the bal
lots used, together with all unused
ballots, and the ballot checklist, shall
also be enclosed in sealed package
properly designating the voting place
which package shall be sent to the
proper officer as required BY law in the
case of the ballots cast, and neither
the said package nor the said lists of
voters shall thereafter be opened, ex.
cept by the return judges, or in the
case of contest, or upon the order OF
a court of competent jurisdiction.
SECTION. 26. No person other than
the election officers, shall take or re-
move any ballot from the voting place.
If any voter inadvertently spolls a bal
lot he may obtain another upon re-
turning the spoiled one. The ballots
thus returned shall be Immediately
cancelled, and at the close of the polls
shall be secured IN an envelope sealed
and sent to the proper officer as re-
quired by law in the case Of the bal
lots cast.
SECTION 81. If any voter declares
to the judge of election that, by reason
Of disability, he desires assistance in
the preparation of his ballot, he shall
be permitted by the judge Of election
to select qualified voter of the elec.
ton district to aid him in the prepara-
ton Of his ballot, such preparation be-
ing made in the voting department.
SECTION sS. II 4 voter marks more
names than there are persons to be
elected to an Office, or if for any reason
it is impossible to determine the vot-
er's choice for any Office to be filed,
his ballot shall not be counted for such
Office. No ballot without the official
endorsement shall, except as herein
otherwise provided, be allowed to be
deposited in the ballot box, and none
but ballots provided in accordance
with the provisions Of this act shall be
counted.
Ballots not marked, or improperly
or defectively marked, shall be en-.
dorsed as defective, but shall be pre-
served with the other ballots. If any
ballot appears to have been obtained
otherwise than as provided ir. this act,
the judge.of elections shall transmit
such ballot to the district attorney
without delay, together with whatever
Information he may have tending to
the detection Of the person who depos-
tied the same. I..