Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-10-07
Hon. Knute Nelson, speaks at
Little Falls ON Wednesday, Oct.
IL.
Instructions TO Voters.

The Australian system of ballot
ing which will be used in a general
election for the first time, in this
state, is sure to make more or less
confusion. 1t can not be impressed
too early Or too often upon the minds
OF the voters that great care is nee
essary in marking the ballot. If the
person is able to read and write he
is given a ballot and has to enter a
compartment alone and mark it un-
assisted. So necessary has it been
deemed to instruct all in the use Of
this ballot, that Hon. F. P. Brown,
secretary of State has issued the fol-
lowing Instructions:
The Judges of Election will furnish each
person entitled to vote with one ballot of each
kind that is to be voted. The voter will then
retire, alone to one of the stalls or rooms pro-
vided for that purpose, and make cross Ky mark
on the line Of the name of each candidate for
whom he wishes to vote, in the space left for
that purpose.
He will then fold his ballot in such way as to
conceal the face of 1t, but 80 that the initials of
the judges of cleo ton may be seen on its back,
hand it to one of the judges, who shall deposit it
in the proper box. The voter will then retire
from the voting room. Ifany voter, by mistake,
spoils ballot he shall return it to the judges Of
election, who shall preserve it, and furnish the
elector with new one. If the voter places a
cross (x) mark opposite the names of two or
more persons running for the same Office, Said
ballot shall not he cOunfed for those officers
Voters may be allowed to carry with them a
sample ballot for use in assisting them in mark
ing the official ballot.
If any person during the day of election, and
before the closing of the polls, remove from the
polling room any of the ballots printed for that
election, he shall be guilty Of a misdemeanor and
shall be punished by q fine not exceeding one
hundred Q0W dollars, or Imprisonment not
exceeding six months, or both.
When an elector shall make oath that he cannot
read or that he cannot read English, or that
because of physical disability he cannot mark his
ballot he shall have the right to call to his aid
one or more of the judges of election, a
qualified elector who may read the ballot to and
mark tho ballot for each voter, in the presecce
of two of the judges of election, provided that no
person shall SO mark the ballots Of more than
three voters In ony one electlOn d1stTlct, at one
/ election. Such person shall mark the ballot as
directed by such voter and not otherwise.
Any judge OF election, or any person marking
the ballot of a voter, who shall disclose to any
other person the namo of any candidate voted
for by such elector, or shall mark the ballot in
any other manner than as directed by the voter,
| shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on con-
viction shall be punished by a fine Of not less
| than thirty (30) dollars, nor more than two
hundred (2OO dollars, or by imprisonment in the
county jail not less than ten days nor more than
! ninety days, or both such fine and Imprisonment.
Any person in the polling room or compart-
! ment connect ed Herewith, who shall persuade OF
attempt to persuade any person to vote for any
particular candidate, shall be deemed guilty Of a
| misdemeanor for each and every person so
approached, and on conviction shall be punished
| by fine or by Imprisonment.
1fany person after having marked his ballot,
| shows it to anyone except as hereinbefore pro-
vided the Judge of election shall refuse to receive
| or place in the ballot box such ticket.
The date of tie Republican
county convention is Monday
| Oct. 10.