Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-10-22
INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS

slFuctlons 20 voters underline Australian
Ballot law. Cut them out and carr,
the article in youfaa 10 the polls:
lido not atte1 M ste or enter tn.
limits of the poIlirs lee until Won have
seen and examined ] forra Of the ofhcia
ballot then n use in your precinct, ana
until Eou have been fully Instructed az
to the proper method of preparing anG
casting your ballot.
| Give your name, and # required
your place of residence, to the judges Of
election.
3-H your right to vote is not chal-
lenged the judges will hand you ballot
on the back of which ballot the two
judges having charge thereof must have
written with ink or indelible penciD
the names or initials OF said two Judges.
and no other writing must then appear
on the ballot. Carefully examing YOU,
ballot in order that you may learn thai
it fully conforms to the Ian in respect &c
having no other writing Of distinguish
ing marks thereon.
+If your vote is ehalleneed. Won will
not receive ballot until you have es-
tablished your right to voie by affidavit
or otherwise.
@When you have received the ballot
from the judges, retire II once alone
(without leaving the polling place) to
one of the booths or compartments pro-
vided, and unfold and prenare your bal
| lot.
every ballot will be printed, and
| thereon will appear the names of all the
candidates nominated BY each party !.
with the name or the titleof the office
to which each one is candidate. The
names of all candidates nominated by
each party viii be grouped together up
on the ballot, and each graap or ticket
will be headed by the nams Of the po-
litical party by which the candidates
composing the group or ticket were
placed in nomination.
THE groups of namesef the caHai-
dates of the several politics parties will
be found in parallel columns.
8-If you want to vote for all the can
! didates of a party withons any excep-
tons or scratching, yoa must simply
cross out the groups of candidates or
tickets you do not wish to vote for,
leaving on the ballot the group of can
didates or ticket OF your party, without
marking in any way the group or ticket
for which you intend to vots.
Gin crossing cut the gTaups or tick
cts you do not vote, a coed pencil or
pen should be used, and Il will be best
to draw several heavy, plan lines down
across each of the groups for which you
do not vote, making each Of such lines
plainly cross the name OF every candi-
date in the groups or tickeh OF the po-
litical parties for which yoa do not vote.
t0-Haying selected yom ticket and
crossed out all other tickets on the ball
lot, if you wish to votefor any other
candidate whose name does net appear
on the ticket you have selected, write
the name of the person yoa wish to vote
for on the blank line under the name OF
the candidate you wish to scratch, and
scratch off the name OF flle candidate
you do not wish to vote for, by drawing
line through the same.
lin changing or scratching
your party ticket Gas explained above in
rule t0), be careful not to cross out the
title or name of the Office If you desire
to write under it the name of another
candidate, but simply cross or scratch
off the candidate IS name, With marks of
pencil or pen passing through the name
(from left to right, and then write in
the blank space (underneath the name
scratched or crossed off the name of
the candidate to be voted for.
12-Do not mark your ballot in any
other way than as indicated above, or it
may be thrown out and not eounted.
t3-If you spoil ballot ID preparing
it you must return it and get another in
the place of it,
t4-If you viii declare upon oath that
you cannot read the English language,
or that by reason of physical disability
you are unable to mark Won ballot, up
on request you will be assisted by two
judges in preparing your bsllot. These
officers viii mark your BALLOT as you
direct.
/ t5-Before leaving the vpting booth,
fold your ballot so as I'd conceal the
marks and to expose the ofSeial endorse
ment on the back.
| 16-Leaye the booth and hand your
ballot to the Judge in chars OF the ball
lot box, who, without marfing it in any
other way, must number i and deposit
it in the box.
fE-You viii not be allovsd TO occupy
a voting booth with anoths voter.
1S-You win not be aII6Eed to vote
any ballot except the one sou received
from the judges.
1S-You will not be aIIoNd 20 occupy
a booth more than FIVE minntes.
20-You will not be aIwed to re-
enter the inclosed space. er you have
voted, during the election.
2t-No person viii he oWed 70 90
any eleeaioneertng OF solid rs Of votes
within 100 feet of any ling place,
nor to interrupt, hinder o oppose any
person while approaching she e9oilliag
place for the purpose d but
proper ehaIlengers may lin the