Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-03-17
rHEwALroN AUSTRALIAN SYSTEM.
A Synopsis of the New Election Law.

Synopsis OF the new ElectlOh Ahh'
The Walton bill, which is the Aus
! tralian ballot auxiliary to the Ander
SON Mccormick law, provides:
1. That it shall be the duty of each
Electoral Board to have the oillclal
ballot printed. After July LIST candl-
dates and committees will be reliev-
ed of the duty of printing their tlck
cts (ballots), and this will be done at
public expense. The plan adopted
for the ticket is in the main that long
in use at the Democratic primaries
in Richmond. Names of all candi-
dates will be printed upon one ticket,
and the voter will erase the names
of those candidates for whom he
does not wish to vote. Il is perfect
" plain sailing, especially for any
person who can read. If for instance
there are three candidates for Con
cress in this district, all that the rot-
err has to do is to erase the names OF
those candidates for whom he does
MOI wish to vote. The name of that
person left untouched by pen or pen
ell is the person for whom the cleo
tors voter S)vote will be counted.
.. The electoral Board must deslg-
nate one of its members to be con
tinuously present in the room IN
which the ballots are printed. There
will be printed two ballots for every
registered voter in the city or coun-
3. The member of the Electoral
Board who has supervised the print
inc of the tickets must take posses
sion of the tickets and allow no one
else to see or handle them until he
has delivered them into the posses
sion of the Electoral Board.
At will be the duty of the Electo-
raj Board to adopt n seal, or stamp:
5. The Electoral Board must hold
a meeting and receive and count the
printed tickets and at1iX its seal to
each one OF the tickets. The imprint
of the seal or stamp is to be made up
on the back of each ticket.
The Electoral Board must divide
into suitable packages the tickets
necessary for each voting precinct in
the city and county.
!. The secretary of the Electoral
Board must deliver to the judges or
clerks of each voting precinct the
tickets intended for that precinct.
s. The Electoral Board must pro
vide voting booth for each voting
precinct.
The law allows the board great dis
erection in this matter; but we doubt
not that the average cost of
these booths-which are intended TO
be screens merely-will not exceed
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there are convenient rooms which
may be used as booths.
Into the booth the voter must 90
TO mark his ticket. If the voter
cam read and write he may call the
special constable TO his help. Nc
voter can remain in booth longer
than two and Il half minutes.
8. The tickets will be furnished
voters by the judges of election.
10. The Electoral Board must APP.
point a special constable for each
precinct, whose duties will be to pre-
serve the peace and enforce the pro
visions of the Walton act. This con
stable has also the important duty
of assisting illiterate voters to pre-
pare their ballots. Crowds will moi
be permitted TO gather within 100
feet of the voting place.
II. The Electoral Board may re-
move any special constable at it:
pleasure. The judges of election
who are the appointees of the Flee
toral Board have like power.
y. Tie secretary of the Electoral
Board is made the custodian of the
Board seal or stamp.
The expenses which the Electora
Board is authorized to incur III eX
ecuting the provisions of the act
must be paid by the Supervisors o.
each county out of the general levy
and by City Councils in like manner
Richmond Dispatch.