The Mankato free press., 1896-10-02
ELECTION LAWS.
Who are Residents, and Some other
Common Questions Answered.
Judges of Election Must be Chosen
this Week-NominatiOn fees.

tion law, and we will answer some of
these today, by quoting from the sta
tutes now in force.
In the first place, the state constl-
tuition provides that legal voters must
have resided in the United States one
year, in this state four months, and
in the voting precinct' ten days, pre-
ceding the day of election.
The following from the election
law now in force should be cut out and
preserved:
Sec. 81. The board of registration,
in all election districts throughout
the state, in determining the resi-
dence of any person for the purpose OF
ascertaining who are qualified electors,
shall be governed by the following
rules so far as they are applicable:
l. The place shall be considered
and held to be residence of person in
which his habitation is fixed, without
any present intention of removing
therefrom, and to which whenever he
is absent he has the intention of re-
turning.
2. A person shall not be considered
to have lost his residence who leaves
his home to go into another state, or
county in this state, for temporary
purposes merely, and with the inten-
tion of returning.
3. A person shall not be considered
to have gained residence in any
county into which he comes for tenn
porary purposes merely, without the
intention of making such county his
home.
4. If person 60 into another
state, with the intention Of making it
his residence, he loses his residence in
this state.
5. If any person remove to another
state with the intention of remaining
there for an indefinite time as a place
of residence, he loses his residence
in this state, Notwithstanding
he entertians the idea of returning
at some future time.
6. The place where mans family
resides shall be held to be his place of
residence; but if it be place of tenn
porary establishment for his family,
or for transient purposes, it shall be
otherwise.
7. If man have family fixed in
one place and he do business in
another, the former shall be con-
sidered his place of residence, but any
man having family, who has taken
up his abode with the intention of re-
manning, and whose family refuses to
reside with him, shall be regarded as
a citizen and voter where he has taken
up his abode.
s. The residence of a single man
shall be where he usually sleeps.
9. The mere intention to acquire
new residence without the fact of re-
moval, shall avail nothing; neither
shall the facts of removal without the
intention.
10. No person employ edtemporarily
in the pineries for the purpose of cut
ting timber for saw logs or railroad
ties, or in the construction or repair
of any railroad, canal, municipal or
other work of public nature, shall &C
quire residence in any election dis
trict into which he came for that pur-
pose, so as to entitle him to vote
therein, but this provision shall not
be held to extend to station agents
and section men, who personally re-
side in such election district.
Sec. SO reads: No elector shall vote
except in the district in which he
actually resides. When, however, a
person duly registered and so entitled
to vote removes from one district to
another within ten days of an elec-
tion, it shall be lawful for him to vote
in the district from which he has re-
moved until he has acquired the right
to vote in the district to which he re-
moves.
Sec. So reads: At least thirty days
before any election in any city or in
any incorporated village having two
or three election districts, the local
committees of the several parties par
ticipating at the last preceding cleo
tion may furnish the city council or
other appointing authority list of
qualified electors for the various cleo
tion districts to act as judges of elec-
Dion, which lists shall be certified to
by the several secretaries Of such COM
mittees. Said judges of election, in
cities and in incorporated villages,
shall be selected from the lists SUBJ
mitted by said local committees.
One judge is to be selected from
each of the lists submitted by the
three parties polling the largest vote
at the preceding election, but if one
committee neglects to hand ia d list,
the fourth largest party shall be sub
stituted. If three lists are not sub