Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-14
THE WAY TO DO 1T.
Instructions Concerning the New Ballot
Law in This State.

tralian Ballot System snail DC useu
and as this is new and not under
stood by the majority OF the voters,
we have boiled down the main points
of the law and present them for the
careful perusal of our readers
No one except the election officers
and whose business require their pres,
ence, and voters while going to and
from the election room, shall be or re-
main within sixty feet OF the room
where the balloting is going on. The
voter will enter the election room or
building, which will be divided in
not less than two nor more than five
booths or compartments, and give
his name and residence to one Of the
poll clerks, who will deliver to him
one ballot. The voter will then re-
tire alone at once into one of the
booths and prepare his ballot, which
will be a sheet containing the nomi-
nees of all the political parties. In a
column on one side will be the Dem
ocratic ticket, on the other the Re-
publican ticket, and between the two
the tickets OF the other political par
ties. At the head of each column OF
political party nominations shall be
printed, in large, clear type, the name
of the political party which the candi
dates represent, so that no one need
make mistake and vote the wrong
ticket.
He may remain not more than fce
minutes while he is preparing his bal
lot, which is done as follows: Sup
posing he is a solid Democrat and
wishes to vote the ticket straight, he
simply runs his pen down over the
other tickets from top to bottom (re-
member each ballot contains all the
party tickets and thus cancels them.
If there is any man on the ticket
against whom he wants to vote, he
scratches that name off, and, If he
| desires, writes another name directly
below in a space provided for that
purpose. Every alteration or scratch
must be made with ink lead pen
Gil will not do.
Remember that all the names you
wish to vote for must be on the one
ballot; they cannot be scattered
among all the ballots. That is, all
the names you wish to vote for must
be written on one ballot, or, in other
words, in one column.
Now, having thus prepared his bal
lot, the voter wiki so fold it that the
face of it cannot be seen, and SO that
the names of the poll clerks written
on the back of the ballot can be seen,
and will hand it to one Of the COM
missioners of election, and shall vote
| forthwith and before leaving the
polling place.
| If the voter cannot read or write or
is physically unable to prepare his
ballot, he will so declare to the poll
clerks, who will, in the presence of
each other, prepare the ballot just as
the voter wants it. The poll clerks
dare not tell how any voter voted. III
| the voter wishes information how to
prepare his ballot, he should apply to
the poll clerks.
If the voter spoils ballot, he must
return it to the poll clerks and may
get another. He must not destroy 1t.
While in the election room the vo-
ter must talk to no one but the poll
clerks or commissioners of election.
If the voters name has not been
listed by the assessor, and he is
challenged for this reason, he must
make the affidavit required in section
40 of the new election law. The two
persons he is required to name in his
affidavit do not have to be present.
NOTES.
The voter must be a male citizen 81
years of age.
He must have been a resident of
the State one year and Of the county
60 days preceding the election.
He must be an actual bona tide resi-
dent of the district in which he offers
to vote.
II the voter has been in the county
and State the required time he may
move from one district to another in
the same county on the day of the
election and be entitled to vote at the
new place.
A person of unsound mind, a pau
per or one who is under conviction OF
treason, felony or bribery in an cleo
ton, cannot vote.
When a man within the year has
accepted aid from the county either
in money or in being kept at the poor
house he comes within the meaning
OF the term "pauper."
Working away from home for an
Incorporated company does not
make one resident OF the county or
district where he works. He may
however, declare that place as his
home and thereby gain a voting resi-
dence.
If two or more ballots are rolled to
gether and are exactly alike, one oil
them only shall be counted. II they
are different neither shall be counted
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LUCAS COUNTY,
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