Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-07-14

shall contain the names of all delegate
proposed at the preliminary meeting
No other ballot shall be received o
counted at the caucus. The count,
committee shall have prepared ant
delivered to the caucus inspectors,
sufficient number of official caucu
tickets in the original sealed package
aud at the opening of the caucus The
package shall be opened and the
tickets conveniently placed for the ust
of the voters, but no distribution o
such caucus tickets shall be allowed
outside of the place where the caucus
is held.
The board of registry of each election
precinct shall, two days before the day
fixed for the holding of the caucus
deliver to the chairman of the county
committee six copies of the printed
registry list of electors. Failure tC
provide these lists operates to forfeit al
compensation provided by law Of every
member of such board. (See sec. Z, CHI
312, laws of 1877
After such registry lists have been
delivered to the chairman of the county
committee, he shall deliver the same
to the caucus officers of the respective
districts in each city. Only voters
whose names appear on such registry
list shall be allowed to cast their vote at
said caucus, except in case it is shown
by affidavit that the electOr is a quail
fed voter OF the caucus district which
affidavit must be substantiated by the
affidavit Of two freeholders, electors in
such caucus district, cOrrobOrating all
the material statements in his affidavit.
(Sec. S, CHI. 312, laws Of 1897. The
chairman selected at the preliminary
meeting shall, upon the day fixed in
the call, open the caucus (at 4 O'Clock
p. NJ in the booth, and if no booth
exists in the caucus district, in the
building which the county committee
shall have designated to be used for
holding the caucus. The chairman and
secretary together with the caucus in
spectors shall act as officers of the eau
Gus. In case the chairman is absent,
any caucus inspector may open the
caucus, and the electors present shall
elect new chairman, and in the ab-
sence Of the secretary new, secretary.
persons whose names an :hr on the
caucus ticket as candidate tnepS5r pSs5r %1ele-
gates may act as caucus offiEN '%out no
other person whose name ears on
the caucus ballot may Is caucus
officer or be permitted i the caucus
booth, except to vote, until after the
close of the caucus.) The eau Gus tickets
shall be placed in charge of the secre-
tary Of the caucus, who shall deliver to
each elector entitled to vote, as he en-
ters the booth or place where the eau
Gus is held, one ballot, and no more
than one ballot shall be furnished to
any one elector unless the elector
returns the one first furnished as having
been enormously prepared or spoiled
by accident, or mistake, but no voter
shall receive TO exceed three ballots in
all. Ballots containing more names
crossed for delegates than the district
is entitled to shall be void and shall not
be counted
Any person voting or offering to vote
alta caucus, when not qualified elector
Of the caucus district is amepable to
fine and imprisonment.
The caucus inspectors shall act as
tellers of the caucus, receive the votes
of all the electors of the party of the
caucus district, and all electors who
voted the republican ticket at the last
general election shall be entitled to
vote. An elector, whose right to vote
shall be challenged by any of the cau-
Gus officers, shall not be permitted to
vote unless he shall subscribe and file
with such caucus officers, an oath or
affirmation that he is resident of the
caucus district, is qualified elector and
voted for the regular republican candi-
dates at the preceding general election,
which affidavit must be substantiated
by the affidavit of two freeholders,
electors in such caucus district, IN so
far that they know the challenged voter
to be resident and elector of the cau-
Gus district, and that they have reason
to believe that the statements made by
such challenged voter in his affidavit
are true and corrert.
Immediately after the close Of the
caucus (at eight O'Clock p m.) the can
vassing board shall count every official
ballot cast, and verify such canvass in
the presence of all persons desiring TO
attend, whose names appear on the
ballot voted at such caucus, or one
authorized agent for each such person,
and Immediately when the result is
determined, announce the same in a
loud voice. All the ballots or tickets
cast at such caucus S ball then be burned.
Verified and certified returns shall i'm
mediatelv De seut to the county com
mittee, together with the checked reg
istry list used, and affidavits received
at such caucus.
Section +, chapter 312, laws Of 1897,
makes it the duty Of the city TO cause
booths to be constructed and erected al
such place and time as the caucuses are
designated to be held, and to furnish
tho pocoSSary furniture baIIof bovoc
heat and light; provided, that in all
cities where provision for election
booths is moi made by law the ca11cnses