The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-09-04

gins, 6Qau carefully examine the ballot
boxes and see that there is nothing in
them. Each box shall be labelled in
plain and distinct Roman letters, with
che name of the office or offices to be
voted for, and the question or questions
to be voted upon. The majority of the
judges OF election for the county and
State officers for any voting precinct,
with the registrar of such precinct,
may, if they think it expedient so to
do, rail off, at a cost to be approved
by the board of county commissioners,
and to be paid for by the county, at
such precinct space or enclosure, with
an opening at one end or side for the
entrance of the voter, and an opening
at the other side for his exit, as a poll.
ing place in which to hold the election
for the State and county officers. Only
one voter shall be allowed to enter such
polling place at one time, and no one
except the judges of election shall be
allowed to speak to or interfere with
the voter while in the polling place
casting his vote, which shall be put
into the proper box or boxes by said
voter, or by the judges at the request
of the voter. All voters shall pass
through said enclosure without any de-
lay of time, so that said passage shall
not be obetructed by delay unreces-
sarily, outside of depositing his vote or
votes
A similar, but separate and distinct,
space or enclosure may be railt d off as
polling place for the election of mem
bers of Congress and Presidential Elec
tors, at such distance from the polling
place for State and county officers as
the judges of election may designate.
In the event such separate polling
place shall be designated for holding
the election for members of Congress
and Presidential Electors as herein
provided, the methods for holding the
election and conducting the voting
shall be the same in all respects as those
provided aforesaid in this amendment
to said section 1858 of the Code for the
polling places for State and county Off
ers. The registrar appointed for such
precinct shall have power and author
ity to appoint a deputy registrar for
such separate polling place, to whom
shall be furnished the names of all per
sons qualified and entitled to vote at
such precinct, and the judges of elec
ton appointed for such precinct and
the registrar shall appoint two suitable
and discreet persons as judges or in
6POSVOA6 VI C4CSVAOA 4OL 6OCA SODShA eAVO
polling place, who shall be of different
political parties, where pos sible. The
registrar and judges so appointed for
such separate polling place shall be
sworn to perform their duties accord
ing to law, shall make due returns of
the election, and have all the powers,
privileges and authority conferred on
them by law as in the case of other
registrars and judges of election: Pro.
Uided, hOIUeUer, that if the judges of
election at any of the voting precincts
in this State do not see fit to carry out
the provisions of this amendment to
said section 1858 of the Code,* then,
and in that event, the election at said
precinct not adopting such provisions
shall be conducted in all respects as is
now provided by law,
| *Au the amendments to the election law made
in chapter 278 laws of 1889, are Incorporated in
the election law now sent out.
SEC 2689. When the election shall be
| finished, the registrars and judges OF
election, in the presence Of such of the
electors as may choose to attend, shall
open the boxes and count the ballots,
reading aloud the names of the persons
who shall appear on each ticket; and
| if there shall be two or more tickets
rolled up together, or any ticket shall
contain the names of more persons than
such elector has right to vote for, OF
shall have device upon it, in either
of these cases such tickets shall not be
numbered in taking the ballots, but
shall be void; and the said counting OF
votes shall be continued without ad
journment until completed and the re
suit thereof declared.
SEC. $780, The judges Of election IL
each township, ward or precinct shall
appoint one of their number or the
registrar to attend the meeting of the
board of county canvassers, as mem
Der thereof, and shall deliver to the
member who shall have been so ap
pointed the original return or state
ment of the result of the election IL
such township, ward or precinct; anC
the members of the several township
ward or precinct boards Of election
who shall have been so appointed, shal
attend the meeting of the board O
county canvassers for such election il
the county in which they shall have
been appointed as members thereof.
SEC 2691. The members of the sew
eral boards of election to whom tht
original returns or statements of tht
result of the election in the precincts
wards or townships to which they re
spectively belong, shall have been de
livered as directed IN the preceding sec
ton, shall constitute the board o
county canvassers for such election il
the county in which such precinct
ward or township shall be situated
and the register of deeds of such county
shall be clerk of such board, unless tn
board shall elect another person in hi
place.
SEC. 1892 A majority of the mem
bers of the several precinct boards o
election who shall have been appointed
to attend the meeting of the board o
county canvassers as members thereof