Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-10-29
INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS

limits OF the pollln4 plaee until you have
seen and examined form of the official
ballot then in use q yoTr nrecinct and
until you have beef fully instructed as
20 the proper methRd OF preparing and
casting your ballot
1--WE your naEe, and if required /,
your place OF residence, to the judges OF
election.
5-lI your ugN to vote is not chal-
lenged the Iudgeakil nand you ballot
on the back OF fhich ballot the two
Judges having ch4ge thereof must have
written with in or indelible penciD
the names OF lnitials OF said two judges,
and no other writing must then appear
on the ballot Carefully examing your
ballot IN order that you may learn that
IL 1ulIy conforms 70 the law in respect to
having no other Writing or distinguish
ing marks thereon.
4If your Votes CHALLENGED. YOU will
not receive balIot until YOU have es-
tablished your right to vote by affidavit
or otherwise.
5-WheR you have received the ballot
from the judges, retire at once alone
(without leaving the polling place. to
one of the booths or compartments pro-
vided, and unfold and prepare your bal
lot.
every ballot viii be printed, and
thereon viii appear the names of all the
candidates nominated by each party,
with the name or the title of the office
to which each one is candidate. The
names of all candidates nominated by
each party will be grouped together up
on the ballet, and each group or ticket
will be headed by the name of the po-
litical party by which the candidates
composing the group OF ticket were
placed in nomination.
THE groups OF names of the candi-
dates of the several political parties will
be found in parallel columns.
8-If you want to vote for all the can
didates Of party without any excep-
tons or scratching, /" you 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 vote.
Elm crossing out the groups or tick
cts you donot vote, a good pencil or
pen should be used, and it will be best
to draw several heavy, plain 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 tickets of the po-
litical parties for which you do not vote.
10-HaYing selected your ticket and
crossed out alIother tickets on the bal
lot, if you wish to vote for any other
candidate whose name does not appear
on the ticket you have selected, write
the name Of the person you wish to vote
for on the blank line under the name of
the candidate you wish to scratch, and
scratch off the name of the candidate
you do not wish to vote for, by drawing
a line through che same.
lin changing or scratching
your party ticket Gas explained above in
rule 100, 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 S 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.
t2-Do not mark your ballot in any
other way than as indicated above, or it
NAV be thrown out and not counted. i
13-If you spoil ballot in preparing
it YOU must return it and get another in
the place Of it.
14-If you will declare upon oath that
YOU cannot read the English language,
or that by reason of physical disability
YOU are unable to mark your ballot, up
on request you will be assisted by two
Judges in preparing your ballot. These
oficers will mark your ballot as you
direct.
t5-Before leaving the voting booth,
fold vour ballot so as to conceal the
and to expose the official endorse
ment on the back.
t6-I cave the booth and hand your
ballot to the Judge in charge of the bal
lot box who, without marking it in any
other way, must number it and deposit
it in the box.
t7-You viii not.be allowed to occupy
a votinc booth with another voter.
ts-You viii not be allowed to vote
onv ballot except the one you received
from the iadges.
ta-You viii not be allowed to occupy
= booth more than FIVE minutes.
oO-Yoa viii not be allowed to re-
enter the mclosed space, after you have
80 fursng the election.
No person will be allowed to do
onr aleetsneering or soliciting of votes
,,,;t,ir i'd feet of any polling place,
nor yvruRss hinder or oppose any
-. nile approaching the polling
- IN the purpose of voting; but
$500 l,r, S .lIengers may be within the
I;u;ts Il BE polling place.