The record-union., 1896-10-28
the fact must be proclaimed In a loud

the fact must be proclaimed In a loud
voice.
THE BALLOTS.
The ballots are printed and bound In
books Of 100 each With a>stub foe each
ballot The books are receipted for,
giving the numbers beginning and clos
ing the book. One hundred ballots are
provided for each fifty voters or frac-
ton Of fifty.
THE POLLING PLACE.
The space for this Election Board and
the voting booths must be separated
from the lobby for the public by a
guard rail. No ONE except those within
the raid must approach nearer than six
feet to the ballot box-that is, the box
must be six feet from the guard rail.
This requirement Is frequently vio-
lated. 1t is wise safeguard and
should be observed.
The ballot box must be kept In plain
view of the bystanders, also the voting
booths.
No one must be permitted to pass the
guard rail except members of the board
and Clerks, and electors on the-way to
voting booths. This mandate is fla
grantly violated at nearly every elec-
ton. The Board of Election may give
consent for others to enter behind the
rail, but only for the purpose of pre-
serving order and enforcing the law.
HOW TO VOTE.
The voter approaches the guard rail
where the two Ballot Clerks sit, and
before entering gives to the Ballot
Clerk his name and address. He ought
to add his register number. The Ballot
Clerk must call out the name IN AN
AUDIBLE TONE, and the other Ballot
Clerk will then search the register for
the name. Finding it, he must an
nounce loudly the names and residence.
When this is done one Ballot Clerk
hands the voter a ballot, tearing it from
the stub of the bound book, while the
ether Ballot Clerk writes on the reg
lister opposite the voters name the bal
lot number so delivered.
INSIDE THE RAIL.
Then, and not until then, should the
voter be permitted to pass inside the
guard rail to enter a voting booth.
AS the voter receives his ballot one
of the Ballot Clerks in an audible tone
so as ITO BE HEARD BY THE BY
ISLANDERS" must say to the voter
that he Must mark the ballot with the
stamp provided by law, or it will not be
counted
This important command Is greatly
ignored and the language given by the
law is frequently not used and Clerks
speak to voters in low tones, and In
other words sometimes confusing them.
AT the last election we heard Clerks
say to voters: Don't use pencil. Don't
use ink" Those are not the words the
law directs. 1t Is always best to follow
the orders Of the law in such directions.
AFTER STAMPING.
When the voter emerges from the vot-
ing booth he must go to the position
held by the Inspector or Judge in
charge of the ballot-box and offer his
folded ballot to the officer in charge, and
announce his name and register num-
Der, and in cities the street and number
of his residence. He must have folded
his ballot so that when completed 1t will
show the printed number of the ballot
on the outer fold, and SO that the face
of the ballot cannot be seen.
The Inspector will take the ballot, ask
the name of the voter and announce it
in AN AUDIBLE TONE, and also give
the voters register number.
The Ballot Clerk having the register
in charge will then examine and see If
the number is the same as that he en-
tered when the voter received his bal
lot If 50, he will repeat the name and
number, and at once write opposite the
name on the register the word voted. !"
The Inspector will then detach the
number from the ballot, DESTROY"
the torn slip and deposit the ballot in
the box, while the Tally Clerks, acting
as Poll List Clerks. enter the name OF
the voter ON. the poll list and number 1t
IN the orderso voting, and one Of the
Judges must write voted opposite the
name on the register. The elector must
then immediately retire from behind
the guard rail.
THE EINCAPACITATED.
If It appears on the register that an
elector cannot read and write (and had
disability when the amendment to the
Constitution concerning educational
qualification was adopted November,
1870, or that he is physically disabled
from marking his ballot, two officers OF
the board Of different party politics may
assist him.
One of the assistants must be named
by the Inspector then receiving the bal
lots, and one by a Judge Of opposite po-
litical faith. whose party at the last
State election cast the largest vote.
Neither of the two shall appoint the
other as assistant
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