The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-10-20

tee, but signed by citizens, It shall only be
necessary that two-thirds of the signers of
the said paper shall have been signers of
the original paper.
SECTION 12. All substituted nomination
certificates or papers may he objected To- as
provided In section six of this act, and II n
substituted certificate or paper be filed
after the last day for filing the original
certificate or paper, objections must be
made within four days after the fling. and
no objections as to form and conformity
to law shall be received after the time set
for printing the ballots.
As soon as any substituted candidate
shall have been duly nominated. his name
shall he substituted by the proper officers
in the place of that of the candidate who
has died or withdrawn so far as time may
allow. and in case substituted nomina-
tion be filed with or transmitted to the
county commissioners after the ballots
have been printed. the said commissioners
shall prepare and distribute with the bal
lots suitable slips OF paper bearing the sub.
stituted name, together with the title Of
the office, and having adhesive paste upon
the reverse side. which shall be offered to
each voter with the regular ballot and
may be affixed thereto.
SECTION l3. The county commissioners
of each county shall cause all the ballots
to be used therein to be printed. The said
commissioners shall ascertain the offices
to be filled and shall be responsible for the
accurate printing of the ballots in accord
ance with this act, and for the safe keeping
of the same while in their possession, or
that of their subordinates or agents.
SECTION H. The face OF every ballot
which shall be printed in accordance with
the provisions of this act shall contain the
names OF all candidates whose nomination
for any Office specified in the ballot shall
have been duly made, except such as may
have died or withdrawn, arranged as here
matter provided.
The names of the candidates of each po-
litical party or body of electors shall he
arranged under the titles of the offices for
which they are nominated in parallel col
umns, with the party or political appella-
ton at the head of each column. The said
columns shall be enclosed by heavy lines
and separated from each other by clear
space of at least one-eighth of an inch and
shall be printed In the order ms nearly as
possible of the votes obtained In the State
at the last State election by the parties or
bodies nominating. beginning with the
party or body which obtained the highest
vote for the candidate, at the head of it's
column, at such election.
When presidential electors are to be vot-
ed for, there shall be printed above each of
the said columns, the names of the candi-
dates for presidential electors nominated
the column, arranged in groups with the
party or political appellation. and the sur.
names of the candidates for President and
Vice President at the head of each group
There shall be printed above each column
OF candidates OF a political party, a circle
three-fourths OF one inch in diameter, and
there shall be printed around but without
the circle the following words, For a
straight ticket mark within this circle"
There shall be left at the right of the
groups OF candidates for presidential cleo
tors. aud OF the lists of candidates for 9TH
er offices, (or under the title of the Office
itself for which an election is to be held in
case there he no candidates legally nomi-
mated therefore.) rs many blank spaces as
there are persons to be voted for. by each
voter for such office, in which spaces the
voter may insert the name of any person
whose name Is not printed on the ballot as
a candidate for such Office, and such inser-
tlon snail count as vote without the
cross mark hereinafter mentioned.
Whenever the approval of constitution
al amendment or other question is sub
mitted to the vote of the people. such ques.
tion shall be printed upon the ballots in a
brief form followed by the words, "yes'
and no" and IL such question be submit
ted at an election OF public officers. it shall
be printed below the list of candidates.
The ballots shall be so printed as to give
nate his choice Of candidates by cross
mark (x) in n square OF sufficient size at
the right of the name OF each candidate
and inside the line enclosing the column,
and in like manner answers to the ques-
tions submitted by similar marks in
squares at the right of the words yes" and
mo, and on the ballot may be printed in
structions how to mark, and such words
as Will aid the voter TO do this, as mark
one,' mark three" and the like: Pro-
vided, That voter may designate his
choice OF an entire group of candidates for
presidential electors by one cross mark in
a larger square. which shall be placed at
the right OF the surnames of the candidates
for President and Vice President at the
head OF such group, and such mark shall
be equivalent to a mark against everys
name in the group: Provided further,
That voter may designate his choice OF
all the candidates of n political party by
one cross in the circle above such column,
and such mark shall be equivalent to a
mark against every name in the column
SECTION 10. All the ballots used at the
same voting place at any election shall be
alike. and shall be at least six, iuches long
and four inches wide. They shall be printed
with the same kind or kinds OF type.
(Which shall not be smaller than the Size
known as BREWER or "eight-point body
upon white paper without any impression
or mark to distinguish one from another,
ard OF sufficient thickness to prevent the
printed matter from showing through.
Each ballot shall be attached TO a stub or
counterfoil, aud all the ballots for the
same voting place shall be bound together
in convenient numbers in books in such
manner that each ballot may be detached
and removed separately.
A diagonal folding line shall be printed
on the right hand upper corner OF the back
OF each ballot, and the said corner shall be
edged with adhesive paste so that the cor
ner when folded at the folding line can he
securely fastened down over the number
now required by the Constitution of this
Commonwealth, SO that the said number
cannot be seen without unfastening or cut
ting open the part so fastened down. The
top of each ballot shall have a margin OF
equal size on both back and face. and the
said folding-line shall be upon this margin,
and the space between the folding-line and
the paste shall be filled in with solid print
ing, and nothing else shall be printed on
the margin except instructions how to
mark: Provided, That at any time the
said Constitution shall cease TO require
ballots TO be numbered. the foregoing re-
qnirements as to the folding line, the mar
gin and the adhesive paste shall be void.
On the back of each ballot, or on the
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