The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-05
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ing pk6Co, enNmeraJlng the packages,
and stating the time and day and date
when the same were delivered by him to
the sheriff. The sheriff shall sign both
ofsaid receipts, upon receipto of the pack
ages one of the receipts shall be retained
by the clerk, and the other shall be de-
livered to the sheriff; and upon receipt
of the packages, the judge or judges Of
election to whom they are delivered
shall countersign said receipt, and the
same shall forthwith be returned by the
sheriff and fled with said clerk.
Sec. 56. The sheriff of each county,
under the direction and control of the
county court of the county, sufficient
time, and not less than one day before
every election provided for in this act,
shall secure the use of and take possess
ion OF the places designated by the
count court as the polling places in the
several precincts in the county, he shall
cause the same to be suitably provided
with a guard-rail, SO constructed and
placed that only such. persons as are in
side said rail can approach within six
feet of the ballot-boxes or within ten
of the compartments, shelves, or tables
at which electors are to prepare their
ballots for voting. He shall furnish in
the manner directed by such county
court, a sufficient number of such COM
partments, Shelves or tables in or at
which electors may conveniently prepare
their ballots for voting, so that in the
preparation thereof each elector may be
screened from the observation of other
persons.
The arrangement shall be such that
neither the ballot-boxes, or the COM
partments, shelves, or tables, or the
electors while preparing their ballots,
shall be hidden from view of those just
outside the said guard-rail, or from the
Judges; and vet the same shall be far
enough removed and 80 arranged that
the elector may conveniently prepare
his ballot for voting with absolute
secrecy. There shall be provided in each
polling place not less than one such
compartment, shelf, or table for every
forty electors to vote at such polling
place, and every polling place shall have
at least three of such compartments,
shelves, or tables.
Sec. 81. During the election and count
ing of the ballots, no person other than
the judges and clerks of election, and the
electors, admitted as herein provided,
for the purpose of preparing their bal
lots and voting, shall be admitted or
permitted to be within said rail.
Sec. 5S. Any person desiring to vote
shall give his name and his residence to
the first of the election clerks, which
clerk shall not be of the same political
party as the chairman, who shall there
upon announce the name and residence
distinctly, and write in the poll-book
kept by him the name and residence of
the eiector and the word "state," or
.state and district" if he is qualified to
vote for such officers only, and also write
the name and residence of the elector,
and, if proper, the word Estate" or
''state and district" +" with pen and ink
upon the back of one of the stubs upon
one of the white ballots provided under
this act; the clerk shall then with pen
and ink write the number of the elector
upon the back of each of the two stubs
upon said ballot; he shall so number
the stubs upon each ballot to correspond
with the number of the elector in the
poll-book, beginning with No. for the
first elector applying to vote, No. for
the second elector, and so on, and he
shall then tear off the stub upon which
he wrote the electors name. The clerk
shall then deliver the ballot, with the
rem;sining stub still attached thereto, to
the elector. The said clerk shall give
the elector one of said white ballots, and
one only. The clerk shall then, at once,
and before issuing another ballot, de-
liver the stub containing the name and
number of the elector to the judges, who
shall pass it to the second clerk, who
shall Immediately enter the number in
the poll-book, and the name and resi-
dence of the elector opposite thereto,
and shall retain the stub in his posses
sion.
Sec. SO. On receipt of his white ballot
rs aforesaid, the elector shall forthwith,
and without leaving the enclosed space,
retire alone to one of the compartments
or places provided, and shall there pre-
pare his ballot by cancelling, crossing.
or marking out the name he does not
wish to vote for, which shall be done
with an indelible copying pencil, to
be furnished for the purpose, or by
scratching with pen and ink for each
office to be filed for which he is quail
ned to vote, and if necessary he may
write into the blank space provided
thefefor the name Of the person of his
choice for each or any such office; and,
in case of question submitted to the
vote of the peonle hy concolI;,,, o.,.,