The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-05-11
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Sec. "a. If from any cause none Of the
pared by the county auditor or other oftieIal,
as herein prescribed, shall be ready for dis
tribution. at any polling place, or II the
supply of ballots shall be exhausted before
the polls are closed, unofficial ballots, print
ed or written, made as nearly as possible in
the form of the official ballots, or OF any
used un suBst1te5 BY
clerk, as provided in this last preceding sec
ton, can be printed and delivered, and the
returns reea asa Of electieE anu TUE
Sec. So The judges of election, or one of
them, Immediately before the proclamation
open the ballot boxes in the presence of
the people there assembled, and turn them
upside down, so as to empty them of any
and the key thereof shall be delivered to one
of the judges, and the said boxes shall not
be reopened until for the purpose of count
polls; and the judges forthwith shall pro-
claim that the polls are open, and cause
written or printed notice OF the hour OF
up outside the polling place.
Sec. S6.-The judges of election shall al
low one eligible voter of each political party
casting / per cent of the entire vote at the
preceding election in that district to be
chosen by each of said parties respectively,
and each to have a certificate in writing
from the chairman of an authorized COM
mittee of the party he represents, to be in
the room when the election is held, to act
as challengers of voters at the election, and
such challengers may remain with the
board until the votes are all canvassed and
the result declared
In case of temporary absence of any
challenger for meals or by reason of sick
ness or otherwise he may substitute for
himself some other person of like political
belief, such substitute to be known TO one
or more of the judges by an affidavit of the
person first So selected or SO substituteH
Sec. 81. The judges of election may au-
thorize a constable or special constable to
act as gatekeeper, in which event he shall
direct voters how to pass to and from the
bo Sd so,son s,,u IN .nr m.nnsr ,rtsrfers
with a gatekeeper in the discharge of his
duty, and it shall be unlawful for the gate
keeper to aid assist, suggest advise or en-
treat an elector to prepare his ballot in a
Sec. IS. If any clerk of election, after
tering upon the discharge of his duties,
shall, by reason of the sickness of himself
or family or other personal disability, be un-
able or fail for any reason to complete the
performance OF his duties, another may be
appointed in IN his place by the judges Judge IL, In
an oath to faithfully and impartially dis
charge his duties, and the fact OF the ap-
pointment and the time when and circum-
stances under which it took place shall be
noted in the poll books, if the polls shall
not have been closed; if after the closing of
the polls the fact, time ana circumstances as ices
proper measures taken to show the exact
stage of the work done and to be done at
the time of such appointment
parties shall, before the voting begins, or
as soon thereafter as possible, place their
initials on the backs of all the ballots they
have, Immediately under or opposite the
fac simile of the officer under whose dlrec-
ton the ballots were printed, and shall not
otherwise mark the same.
tributed except in the voting room to cleo
tors about to vote, and no ballot not Of
icially endorsed or which has not the
initials of two judges OF election, In sald
judges own handwriting, on the back there
of, shall be placed in the box:
If any person during the day of election
from the polling room any of the ballots
printed for that election, said person Shall
be guilty of misdemeanor, anu shali De
punished by a fine not exceeding one nun
six months or both.
Sec 81. No person or persons shall be
allowed in the room containing the ballot
boxes, or in case the ballot boxes and COM
Dsrtments are in the same room, no person
or persons shall be allowed to go or remain
inside the railing, except members OF the
board, officers of the peace, one representa-
tive for each of the political parties repre-
serted on the ballots, and electors VINO are
about to vote, except an eIector VINO o. may ~
assist a voter who cannot read English or Is
physically disabled, in marking his ballots;
Sec. 81. The judges of election and ballot
The number of electors about to vote VINO
shall be admitted at one time snail In no
case exceed the number OF compartments by
more than three.
Sec. SO. No elector shall vote except in
the district in which he actually resides.
When, however, person duly registered
and so entitled to vote removes from one
district to another within ten days OF an
election, it shall be lawful for him to vote
in the district from which he has removed
until he has acquired the right to vote In
the district to which he removes.
The Judges of election may make such
regulations as they deem proper, limiting
the time in which electors may remain In
the polling-room or place while recei wing
preparing and voting his ballot; such linn
itation, however, shall not be less than three
nor more than ten minutes, unless the decay
challenged or is the fault of one or more
members Of the board of election,
Sec. o. All the electors shall be allowed
to go uEmolested to the polling-room for the
purpose of voting, and to return therefrom
In the same manner, but neither voters nor
others shall be allowed to congregate in
any numbers within one hundred feet of the
polling-rOOm in any election district.
In cities having over twelve thousand in
habitants none save officers OF election and
electors who have nOt'voted but are ready so
to do, shall be permitted to stand within
fifty feet of the entrance to the polling
place.
shall have Charge of and hand to and re-
ceive the ballot or ballots from each electOr
voting. The other two judges shall use and
handle the two registers delivered to the
judges, each using one, as specified In this
act.
Sec 90. When an elector presents him
self for the purpose of voting. he shall give
his name and residence, with street and
number, If any, and it shall be first ascer-
tanned that his name is on both the registers
and not erased; also that the residence
given by the elector corresponds, with the
lenged, as provided in the next succeeding
section, that he is entitled to vote
Sec. 81. At any time before any regis
ceives the ballots from the judges of cleo
ton, as provided in the last preceding sec
ton, each judge of election shall, and either
of the authorized challengers or any other
person in the voting room or coming in for
that purpose, may challenge the person
about to vote at the election, whom he
knows or suspects to be not duly qualified
as an elector.
The challenging party, at the time when
he interposes SAID challenge, shall state the
ground or grounds upon which the same is
made, whereupon one of the judges Of cleo
ton shall tender the challenged party the
you DO solemnly swear Tor affirm that
questions as shall be put to you touching
ton"
proceed to question the challenged party in
such a manner as will tend to reveal the
particular facts in dispute concerning which
the challenge is made, to which end ques-
his then place of residence, how long he has
resided In the town, ward or election dis
trict where the vote Is offered; where was
his last place of residence before he came
to the town, or ward; as to his citizenship,
whether native or naturalized citizen,
and IL the latter, when, where and what
rauzed; whether he came into the town or
ward for the purpose of voting at that cleo