Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1893-05-11

persons who were present and voting at
the above named election was..::., the
nq sec' 49, g De M MH5sren having IN mgfug prepared s4a vsui and
signed the statements in the poll lists and
registers, as provided in the last section,
the judges shall 81 LIP proceed sieefiob to GA, Gany 4ha s ahe
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 -a-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 canvassed for such officers as
they are entitled to vote for. 49,.
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
ascertain whether, the number Of ballots
| correspond with the number appearing on
the poll list to have been cast i'll such box.
II two OF more ballots be found to pc SO
folded together as to present the appear,
ance of a single ballot, they SHAH be lald
aside until the counting OF ballots IN al
the boxes is otherwise completed, and 1t It
shall then appear, on comparison of the said
ballots with the number Of ballots OF the
same class appearing by the poll lists to
have been cast, that the two ballots SO
e%lector, 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 ex m n
with the initials of the judges having
charge of the ballots, and, in case any are
found not SO marked, they shall be pre-,
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
f fhell judges I'd nep'1 Witho" ut ioe shall draw
from the box q number OF ballots equal 70
such excess, and the same shall be laid
aside and not counted.
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
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
such ballots shall be counted in the same
manner as if found in the proper box:
Provided. that the counting of such bal,
above the number of votes designated on
the poll lists, in which event the lumber
of ballots so found shall be reduced by
drawing therefrOm as in the last preceding
section provided in cases of excess.
Sec. 127. II one or more ballots not
proper to be found among the ballots belnG;
canvaSsed shall be so found the same shall
ha laid aside 11nfiI the canvass or the class
OF ballots to which said ballots belong,
when if there be 4 deficiency in the number
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
OF being thus made to agree with the mum.
Der of votes appearing in the columns of
the poll lists, corresponding to the respect
i've boxes. the ballots so laid aside and not
counted as aforesaid shall a pc attac ltat; TO o
the reason why the ballots were SO lad
aside, and the certificate and the ballots
attached shall be sealed up III a 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 Oh recorder.
Sec. 129. The judges of election snail
| 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 dls-
figure the ballot in any manner; ana the
| clerk of election shall carefully. enter and
keep an account of each OF SAID votes SO
cast in ta%lly-sheets or tally-books as here
matter provided, and when all the ballots
| time previously thereto il 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
noch SonaTatp ta11V-Shnpf. or each sheet
| of the tally-book, before work shall be COM
1nenced 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 SuDstan-
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
November. 1900. 1S..," directly under
which and extending across the sheet from
side to side shall be printed or ruled in red
ink two heavy lines one-half of an inch
apart.
At the left land 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
DdllOl, DIS WCl do pAOpoSSh ~
amendments or other questions to be voted
upon, the whole being 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 OF group of candidates
and blank lines for any one office there
shall be a similar line in red ink, extending
across across the he bottom Of ls 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-eighths of an inch wide,
| the first of said lines to be close, to the
| column Of names hereinbefore provided for;
half inch in width followed by one space
t~hreeeighths Of an inch wide, and as many
additional sets of lines as may be con-
venient, each set to form ten spaces each
one space three-eighths of an inch in width.
Under the name of each candidate OF
blank line, except where q red line is here
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
line as aforesaid shall be printed or ruled
four light-blue lines in such a manner as to
divide each OF said spaces into hye 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 Wldth the Woras,
| 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
abbreyiation 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. "fve.'' ''ten," fifteen" and so on
in multiples of five.
In each column headed number or
ssNo." shall be printed in figures i'll numer-
zeal order, ''one," ''two,' ''three."' and so
on, the figure 'one' to be placed in the