Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-11-01
HOW TO VOTE.


party.
I'd. If you want to vote for the can
didates of party, with some except
ions, make cross in the circle oppo.
site the party name, and then make a
cross in the square, opposite the name
of any candidate of another party for
whom you wish to vote, and your bal
lot will be counted for all the candi-
dates of the party marked, except as to
the candidates marked by cross mark
in the square, under another party title,
and these will be counted for the can
didates so marked.
Sd. In counties where there is more
than one candidate for the same Office
OH the same ticket of the ballot, as in
the cases of judges, etc, if you desire
to scratch one of these, do not mark in
the circle at all but mark in the square
before the name of every candidate for
whom you wish to vote on any of the
tickets, and your vote will be counted
only for the candidates against whose
names you have placed cross in the
square.
4th. Or you can write in the name
of the candidate of your choice in
the blank space on the ticket, making
a cross opposite thereto.
9TH. Or, in any case you can ignore
the circles opposite the party name,
and prepare your ballot by marking
your ticket by putting cross in the
square opposite the name of the can.
didate of your choice for each office to
be filled in any column of the official
ballot.
The above is taken from the card of
instruction and is endorsed by Fletcher
Howard, democratic chairman, and by
James E. Blythe, republican chairman
of the state central committees.
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The following is a brief of the recent
case before the supreme court in which
some of the doubtful questions con-
corning the election law were settled.
The principal points in that case
should be understood by every voter.
1T is then held that the voter must
mark his ballot with cross consisting
of only two straight lines and this
must be in the proper circle or square.
No mark but cross can be counted,
and If the voter makes cross but uses
more than two lines, or if he makes a
cross but adds some other distinctive
mark, or if he marks outside the circle
or square, it should not be counted.
Every ballot which is so marked by
the voter that it could be readily
identified should be rejected; that is if
any other mark be made on the ticket
by the voter than the statuting cross
or crosses and which could readily be
used as an identifying mark, the ticket
must be entirely rejected; even though
the voter did not intend the mark for
that purpose.
Perhaps the most important point of
all decided is in relation to the manner
OF voting, where more than one candi.
date is to be elected to the same Office,
This year two or more justices and
constables are to be elected in every
township and in most parts of the state
two or more district judges are to be
chosen.
The supreme court holds that if one
wishes to split his ticket on any such
office he must abandon the circle and
mark all the candidates for whom he
desires to vote. To illustrate: If a
republican should mark his ticket with
a cross in the circle and then put a
cross opposite democratic candidate
for district judge his ticket should be
counted only for the democrats thus
marked and not for any republican
candidate for that Office and this would
be true even if he marked with a cross
such number of republican candi.
dates as would make up the proper
number to be elected.
If any one wishes to divide his ticket
on Judge, justice, constable or other
multiple offices he must abandon the
circle and prefix cross to the name OF
each candidate of his choice in the
square opposite the names for which
he wishes to vote.