Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-10-05
KANSAS NEW ELECTION LAW.
Attorney-General Little Kept Busy Ex
planning Its Provisions.

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TOPEKA, Kan, Oct. 3.-The new cleo
tion law, which will be tried in Kansas
next November, is agitating the minds
of the leaders of the different political
parties, and Attorney-General- Little
spends good deal of time explaining
the measure Under the act it is made
the duty of the township trustee of the
respective townships, and the mayor
and clerk of the respective incorporated
cities, to provide suitable places in
which to hold elections, and to see
that the same are warmed, lighted
and furnished with proper supplies
and conveniences, voting booths to be
SO constructed that the voter may pre-
pare his ballot screened from all OBJ
servation. The number of voting
booths shall not be less than one to
every sixty voters, or fraction thereof,
who voted at the last preceding general
election. The supplies are to be fur
nished by the officers mentioned at the
expense of the respective townships and
cities.
The officer whose duty it is to have
the ballots printed (the county clerk
in general elections) is required to pre-
pare full instructions for the guidance
of voters, which will be furnished to
the voter by the judges of election.
Secretary of State Osborn has pre-
pared a card of instructions, which
he has sent to the various county
clerk, recommending its adoption. The
card is as follows:
CARD OF INSTRUCTIONS
To Obtain Ballot-After giving your name
and residence, If you are voter, you will re-
ceive ballot from one of the judges. with his
initials indorsed thereon. Retire at once,
alone, into any vacant voting booth to prepare
your ballot You will find printed on the bal
lot, in columns side by side, all the candidates
of all the parties to be voted for at that elec-
tion. At the top of each column you will find
the name of each party ticket" or list OF can
didates, peoples party republican,
democratic" prohibition etc.
To Prepare Your Bailot-To the lie It of each
name on the ballot you will find a square;
make mark, thus: x, in the square, at the
left of the names of the persons you desire to
vote for, (Or write the names in the blank
spaces, making mark, thus: x, at the left of
such names Your ballot will be counted only
for the names marked. In voting for public
measure. make mark, K, in the square
at the left of the answer you want to
give Do not mark your ballot in
any other way except indicated above. Be-
fore leaving the booth, fold the ballot SO as to
conceal all names and marks on the face OF the
ballot, leaving in view the printed filing and
outside Leave the booth and hand your bal
lot to the judge in charge OF the ballot box, and
leave the inclosed space without delay.
In Preparing Your Blllot-You shall not re-
main in the incloSed Splce ,re than ten min
utes: nor in q booth longer than five minutes,
If other voters are waiting. You will not be
allowed to take a ballot from the polling place
before the close of the election nor to vote any
ballot except the one received from the judge.
If you spoil ballot in preparing 1t, you must
return it and get another If you decide not to
vote, return your ballot and retire from the in
closed space
Assisting a Voter-Any voter who can not
read English, or who is disabled, shall, upon
request, be assisted by two election officers Of
opposite political parties, appointed for that
purpose, who shall mark the ballot directed
by the voter. No Intoxicated person shall be
entitled to assist tance in making his ballot
Certificates of ali nominations of can
didates for offices to be filled by the
electors of the entire state or any di-
vision thereof greater than a county,
must be filed with the secretary OF
state not more than sixty nor less than
thirty days prior to the election. This
includes candidates for district judges
Certificates of all other nominations o1
candidates must be fled with the coun
ty clerk. The names of all the candi
one ticket, according to the Australian
system.
The act also provides that where
two or more parties holding politica
views diametrically opposed to each
they shall be deemed and held to con
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