Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-05-15
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election. Any person violating the provis
ions of this section shall be Ideemed guilty
of misdemeagor, and upon conviction
Thereof shall be fined not less than FIVE hun
dred Hor more than one-thousand dollars
and confined in Jail six months. To carry
any official ballot or copy thereof beyond
the voting booth or away from SAID booth
except to the judges of election. or to vote
any ballot except such as shall be received
by the elector from the judge of election,
shall be misdemeanor punishable by a fine
Of one hundred dollars; and it shall be the
duty of the Judges of of election to cause
by verbal order OF warrant, the instant a.
rest Of any person making such attempt
and he shall be required to vote OF surren.
der said ballot. and he may be confined il
Jail by the order of said judge of election
until he obeys said requirements, not ex.
ceeding ten days.
10. No electer shall be allowed by the
judges of election to remain in said voting
booth provided in this act more than two
and one-half minutes to the obstruction OF
other electors desiring to vote. Said judges
of election shall cause any elector attempt
ing to occupy said voting booth for longer
time to retire and surrender his ballot, and
he shall not again be allowed to receive an
official ballot unless in the discretion of the
judges of election another opportunity to
vote will not delay OIL hinder other electors.
| 16. Should any ballot be unintentionally
or accidentally defaced OF in any way rem
dered unfit for voting by such elector, he
shall deliver such defaced ballot to the
judges of election and receive another upon
taking an oath that the DETACHMENT of the
ballot first delivered to him was not done
for the purpose of defacing said official bal
lot. Any person swearing falsely to such
fact shall be deemed guilty of perjury.
JUDGE TO ASSIST THE VOTER.
II. The judges of election OF majority
of them shall appoint and designate one Of
their number, whose duty it shall be, at
the request Of any elector who may be
physically OF educationally unable to pre-
pare his ballot, to enter the booth with said
electOr and render him assistance in pre-
pairing his ballot by reading the names and
Offices to be voted for on the ballot and
pointing out which name OF names the said
elector may wish to strike out, OIL other
wise aid him in preparing his ballot. In
case said elector he blind said Judge of
election so appointed and designated as
aforesaid shall prepare said ballot for said
eIector in accordance with his instructions;
but the said judge shall not enter the booth
with the voter unless requested by him,
and Shall not in any manner divulge Oh in
dictate, by signs Oh otherwise, the name OF
names OF the persons for whom any elector
shall vote. The said judges, OIL majority
of them, shall have power from time to
time, when and as often as they may see
proper, to change the appointment and des-
igilation Of the judge who shall discharge
the duties presc ribed by this act and des-
ignate another judge in his place and stead
to perform the same. And for corrupt
violation of any Of the provisions Of this
section the person so violating the same
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor
and be confined in Jail not less than one nor
more than twelve months. =.5 3" i+'
IS. 1t shall not be lawful upon the day
OF election for persons to cOngregate and
crowd upon the public highway within one
hundred feet of any of the voting places,
and any person violating the provisions Of
this section shall, upon conviction thereof,
pay a fine of twenty-five dollors OIL be con-
fined in Jail not exceeding ten days. Any
member of the electoral board, the printer
who shall print the official ballots provided
for by this act, and judge of election OF !
any person who shall give Oh sell to any
person Whomsoever. except where it is
distinctly provided by this act, any official
ballot OF copy, OF any fac simile of the
same, OIL any information about the same.
or shall counterfeit OF attempt to counter
felt the same, shall be deemed guilty of a
nisdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined five hundred dollars and i'm
risoned in Jail six months. 1t shall be the
duty of the judges OF election to see that
the provisions of this act are strictly car
ried out.
MUNICIPAL ELECTION. .-E
10. The provisions of this act shall
apply to all elections held in this State
except as hereinafter provided; and where
the election is held in an Incorporated town
for town officers it shall be the duty of all
persons who intend to be candidates for office
in said town to give notice OF said candida
cy to the clerk of the county court of the
county IN which said town is, as provided
by the fourth section of this act; and said
clerk shall notify the electoral board, and
the tickets shall be printed and deliver
ed and the election held and conduct
ed in the manner provided by this act; and
where the election is to be held to ascertain
the sense of the qualified voters of this
State, OF Of any county, city, town, or dis
trict of any county, upon any question sub
mitted to them by law, it shall be the duty
of the electoral boards of the county OIL city,
OF of the county in which said town OIL dis
trict is, as the case may be, to have the
words printed upon the tickets directed by
the law submitting said question; but in all
other respects said elections shall conform
to the provisions of this act. -i l'-
20. In any county OIL corporation where
no political party dominates candidates for
county OIL corporation offices the above pro-
visions OF this act shall not apply; but in
such case every elector shall vote by ballot
which he himself shall provide, and each
person offering to vote shall deliver single
ballot to one of the judges in the presence
Of the other two judges. The ballot shall
be white paper ticket and containing on
the face OF inside of it. written OF, printed,
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