Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-05-11

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registers, as provided in. the last section,
the judges shall proceed to canvass the
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 canyassed and results de-
clared, one box at a time and nearly
the box containing the white ballots. Sec
ond the box containing the ballots tinted
blue. Third, the box containing the bal
The ballots in the box provided for women
shall then be canvassed for such officers as
they are entitled to vote for.
all the votes in all the boxes shall have
been counted. SO as to allow for the COR
rection Of errors il any shall have occurred
by reason of the deposit Of ballots In wrong
boxes.
See 125. The canvass shall commence by
taking out of the box the ballots unopened
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.
II 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
the boxes is otherwise completed, and If 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
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 elcctor.
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
wi in
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
shan Mhon ee hHx a sha ra OF
from the box number of ballots equal to
such excess, and the same shall be laid
aside and not counted.
Sec. 1876. 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
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: l2I. II one or more ballots not
canvassed shall be so found the same shall
be laid aside until the canvass of the class
Of ballots |. to which . said ballots belong
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
hal tO w
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
i've boxes. the ballots so laid aside and not
counted as aforesaid shall be attached to
a certificate made by the judges, stating
aside. and the certificate and the ballots
attached shall be sealed up in 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 or recorder
Sec. l2o: The judges Of election shall
number OF votes cast for each person voted
for at such election, counting each ballot
separately, and numbering the same consecu.
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
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
time previously thereto if the judges shall
so require, said clerks shall compare their
tallies, and if necessary, correct the same:
each separate tally,sheet, or each sheet
of the tally book, before work shall be COM
menced on another sheet.
Sec. 1870. Two tally-books or two sets of
ton district by the official charged with
the printing of the ballots and at the same
time and in the, same manner that such
TALLY as follows:
Each tally sheet or the first sheet of each
t to be furnished by the secretary
white ballots, ..... election district, ......
November, .....;. IS directly under
which and extending across the sheet from
ink two heavy lines onehalf 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 ting several
offices to be filed and the name Of each
and every candidate for the same, with as
ballot, as we'll as proposed constitutional
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. or group OF candidates
and /, blank lines for any one office there
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 tho bottom of each of said sheets as
follows: Three lines so as to form two
spaces, each three-eghths of an inch wide,
the first OF said lines to be close, to the
column of names hereinbefere provided for;
then lines SOFAS to form ten spaces each ono
half inch in width followed by one space
three.eighths of an inch wide, and as many
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
in provided, shall be printed ruled a
light blue line extending across the entire
sheet, and in each of the spaces one-half
second line from the top to the bottom
line as aforesaid shall be printed or ruled
four light blue lines in such a manner as to
spaces, each one-tenth of an inch in width
Immediately below the red line across
the sheet and nearest the top thereof, there
three-eishshs of an inch in width the words,
drought forward and ip the similar space
at the extreme right shall be printed the
other spaces three-eighths' OF an inch wide
shall be printed the word number or it's
Authorization 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
fSe s in order nna at
in multiples of five.
In each column headed number" or
cs oraep be printed IN figures in np9
line with and opposite the name OF the
candidate nearest the top. the figure two
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