St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-04

signed the statements in the poll lists and
registers, as provided in the last section
the judges shall proceed to canvass the
votes taken at such election, and the said
canvass shall be public and continued with
out intermission Except as provided in sec
ton seventy-three of this act) until COM
plete and the result declared.
Sec. 124. The ballot boxes shall be opened
and the votes canvassed and results de-
clared one box at time, and as nearly
as may be in the following order: First
the box containing the white ballots. Sec
ond, the box containing the ballots tinted
blue. Third. the box containing the bal
lots tinted red.
The ballots in the box provided for women
shall then be canyaSsed for such officers as
they are entitled to vote for.
The returns shall not be prepared until
all the votes in all the boxes shall have
been counted, SO as to allow for the cor
rection of errors if any shall have occurred
by reason Of the deposit Of ballots in wrong
boxes.
Sec. 125. The canvass shall commence by
taking out of the box the ballots unopened
Except so far as to ascertain whether every
ballot is single, and counting the same to
ascertain whether the number of ballots
correspond with the number appearing on
the poll list to have been cast in such box
If two or more ballots be found to be so
folded together as to present the appear
ance Of a single ballot, they shall be laid
aside until the counting of ballots in all
the boxes is otherwise completed, and IL 1t
shall then appear, on comparison of the said
ballots with the number Of ballots of the
same class appearing by the poll lists to
found folded together were cast by one
elector, they shall be preserved and laid
TO one side and not counted; nor shall either
of said ballots so folded together be counted
if both be marked and both clearly cast by
one elector.
If the ballots IN any box are found to
exceed in number the number of votes cast
in such box, they shall be first examined
TO ascertain if they are all properly marked
with the initials of the judges having
charge Of the ballots, and, in case any are
found not so. marked, they shall be pre-,
served and laid TO one side and not counted
if the total number still be in excess of the
proper number as shown by the poll lists
If there is still an excess OF ballots they
shall be replaced in the box, and one of
the judges, without looking, shall draw
from the box number Of ballots equal to
such excess, and the same shall be laid
aside and not counted.
Sec. 126. If the number Of ballots found
in the proper box shall equal or exceed the
number shown by the poll lists as proper
to be found therein, no ballots proper TO
have been deposited therein, but found in
another box, shall be counted; but if the
number shall be less than the number shown
by the poll lists and additional ballots
proper to have been deposited in such box
shall afterwards be found in another box
such ballots shall be counted in the same
manner as if found in the proper box.
Provided, that the counting Of such bal
lots shall not produce an excess OF votes
above the number of votes designated on
the poll lists, in which event the number
of ballots so found shall be reduced by
drawing therefrom as in the last preceding
section provided in cases of excess.
Sec. 127. If one or more ballots not
proper to be found among the ballots being
canvassed shall be so found the same shall
be laid aside until the canvass of the class
Of ballots to which said ballots belong,
when if there be a deficiency in the number
of ballots as shown by the poll list for such
class said ballots so found in the wrong box
shall be included and counted with the
ballots to which they belong.
Sec 12S. The number of ballots agreeing
or being thus made to agree with the num-
Der of votes appearing. in the columns Of
the poll lists, corresponding to the respect
counted as aforesaid shall be attached to
a certificate made by the judges, stating
the reason why the ballots We're SO laid
aside and the certificate and the ballots
attached shall be sealed up in u separate
envelope and, except the red ballots, re-
turned to the county auditor with the other
returns, and the red ballots shall be re-
turned to the city clerk or recorder.
Sec. 100. The judges OF election shall
then proceed to count and ascertain the
number of votes cast for each person voted
for at such election, counting each ballot
separately, and Numbering the same consecu-
lively in the order in which they are count
ed, said numbering to be in some uniform
place and so done as not to deface or dis
figure the ballot in any manner; and the
clerk of election shall carefully enter and
keep an account Of each of said votes so
cast in tally-SheetS or tally-bOokS as here
matter provided, and when all the ballots
shall have been counted, and from time to
time previously thereto if the judges shall
so require, said clerks shall compare their
tallies, and if necessary, correct the same;
and the same shall be done in the case Of
each separate tally-sheet, or each sheet
of the tally book, before work shall be COM
menced on another sheet.
Sec. 100. Two tally-books or two sets Of
tally sheets shall be furnished for each cleo
ton district by the official charged with
the printing of the ballots and at the same
time and in the same manner that such
ballots are furnished and shall be substan-
tally as follows:
Each tally sheet or the first sheet Of each
tally-book to be furnished by the secretary
of state shall be headed 'Tally sheet for
white ballots, ...... election district, ....
November, ..... IS. -" directly under
side to side shall be printed or ruled in red
ink two heavy lines one-half OF an inch
apart.
At the left hand side of each sheet in a
column OF suitable width, commencing just
below said red lines, there shall be printed
in plain type the titles of the several
offices to be filled and the name of each
and every candidate for the same, with as
many blank lines as appear on the printed
ballot as we'll as proposed constitutional
amendments or other questions TO be voted
upon, the Whol6Sbeing as near as may be in
the same order as they appear on the Official
ballot with the squares for marking the
same omitted therefrom.
Under each set or group Of candidates
and blank lines for any one office there
shall be a similar line in red ink, extending
across the sheet. and another such line
across the bottom OF said sheet.
Heavy red lines shall be printed or ruled
from the red line nearest the top to the red
line at the bottom of each Of said sheets as
follows Three lines so as to form two
spaces, each three-cighths of an inch wide
the first of said lines to be close to the
column Of names hereinbefere provided for;
then lines SO as to form ten spaces each one
half inch in width followed by one space
three-eighthS OF an inch wide, and as many
additional sets of lines as may be con-
venient, each set to form ten spaces each
ore-half Of an inch in width followed ~
one space three-eighths of an inch in width.
Under the name OF each candidate or
blank line, except where a red line is here
in provided, shall be printed or ruled q
light blue line extending across the entire
sheet, and in each of the spaces One-half
of an inch in width and extending from the
second line from the top to the bottom
line as aforesaid shall be printed or ruled
four light-blue lines in such manner as to
divide each of said spaces into i've smaller
spaces, each one-tenth of an inch in width
Immediately below the red line across
the sheet and nearest the top thereof, there
shall be printed in the first Of the spaces
three-eighths of an inch in width the words,
''brought forward" and in the similar space
at the extreme right shall be printed the
words carried forward" In each OF the
other spaces three-eighths Of an inch wide
shall be printed the word number or its
abbreviation NO" And over the column of
names shall be printed the words ''ottices
and candidates"
On the same line and in the spaces one
half an inch in width shall be printed in
figures, in numerical order, commencing at
the left, Give" ''ten,'' Fifteen and SO on
in multiples of five.
''No" shall be printed in figures in numer-
zeal order cone" ''two," three" and so
on, the figure zone" to be placed in the
line with and opposite the name of the
opposite the name of the next candidate
thereon, and in like manner down the en-
tire column, each column so headed mum
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