Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-03-30
A NEW BALLOT
SYSTEM.
Concluded
The Voting Booth.

UOTdl OOdru OF ing SSNCIdi SOH't'f':0
and cities to provide at each OF the
voting PLACES in their respective
counties and cities a small compart-
ment or booth, large enough to con-
ceal from general observation vo-
ter, and desk or other convent
ence for writing. In said booth
there shall be placed pen and ink.
Said compartment or booth shall
be so erected that a person stand
ing in said booth or COM
partment shall be wholly excluded
from the observation of the clerks,
Judges of election and other persons.
The said board, in its discretion,
may have one or more OF said
booths at said voting places
Challenging Voters.
Except as hereinafter provided
for, save the judges of election and
clerks allowed by law, no person
other than the elector Offering to
vote shall be within forty feet OF
the ballot The judges of E.
lection shall promptly decide any
dispute as to the precedence Of cleo
tors to the right to vote, deciding
who first offered; or, if two or more
offered at the same time, selecting
the one to whom the precedence
shall be given; but in case OF a
challenge, the challengers and the
witnesses may appear before the
Judges; when such challenge is de-
cided only the elector having the
right to vote shall remain within
the prescribed limits.
How to vote.
Every elector qualified to vote at
a precinct shall, when he so de-
1mands, be furnished with an official
ballot by one OF the judges pres
ent. The said elcctor shall then
take the said official ballot and re-
tire to said voting booth. He shall
then draw line with a pen or a
pencil through the names OF the
candidates he does not wish to vote
for, leaving the name or names OF
the candidate or candidates he does
wish to vote for unscratched, Nc
name shall be considered scratched
unless the pencil mark extends
through thrce-fourths of the length
of sail name, and no ballot save ar
official ballot, above prescribed fol
shall be counted by any person
When, as to any office, more thar
one name remains unScratched tine
ballot for that particular office shall
be void, but the ballot as to any
other office, for which only one
name remains unscratched, shall bt
void. He shall fold the ballot Will
the names Of the candidates on the
inside, and hand the same to the
Judge of election who shall place
the same in the ballOt-box without
any inspection further than to as
sure himself that said ballot is {
genuine ballot, for which purpose
he may, without looking at the
printed inside Of said ballot, inspect
the official seal upon the back
thereof; provided it shall be Lawful,
for any voter to erase any or al
names printed upon said officia
ballot and substitute therein il
writing the-name of any person OF
persons for any Office for which he
may desire to vote.
You Can't Have a Ballot,
1t shall be unlawful for any cleo
tor to carry the official ballot fur.
nished him by the judges of cleo
ton further than the voting booth
and should he, after inspecting sale
ballot conclude not to vote, ht
must Immediately return said bal
lot to the judges Of election. Elk
cept as hereinafter provided, NJ
person shall advise, counsel or as
sist any electOr: by writing, word o.
gesture as to how he shall vote o.
mark his ballot after the same ha'
been delivered to him by the judges
of election. Any person violating
the provisions of this section shall
be deemed guilty Of misdemeano1
and upon conviction there of shall