The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-28
ACT OF LEGISLATURE OF 1891.

Regulating the Holding of oaucuses,
Primary Elections or Public Meet
lngs Of Voters Of Cities, Towns,
Counties and Districts, for Political
Purposes.
]. Any caucus. primary election or
public meeting OF the qualified voters OF
any city, town, county, district or ward
OF city, or Of any specified party OF
portion Of such voters, for the nomlna-
ton Of candidates to be supported at
any state, municipal, county, district or
ward election, or for the selection OF del
egates to any political convention, or Tor
the appointment OF any political COM
mittee, may be called by a written or
printed notice, specifying that the same
Is to be held in accordance with the
provisions OF this act; and the provis-
Ions thereof shall apply to the conduct
and proceedings OF any such caucus,
primary election or meeting.
2. The call for any such caucus, PHI
mary election or meeting shall desig-
nate by name or Office the person or OF
flee of the person who calls the same ana
the purposes for which It is called In
the case OF u primary election 1t shall
name the time. place or places at which
such election is to be held and fully the
purposes thereof, and in case Of a cau-
Gus or other meeting II shall designate
the place of such meeting and the pur-
poses thereof In the case OF prl-
mary election. any committee appointed
at any party meeting may appoint
those who are to conduct such primary
election, and the places at which such
primaries are to be held, and the mode
in which the vote shall be taken, record
ed and announced. In the case OF eau
Gus or other political meeting, such eau
cue or meeting may be organized by
the appointment by 1t OF such o1hcers
Of such caucus or meeting as the eau
Gus or meeting may determine.
8. At any such primary election the
votes shall be by ballot and shall be OF
the kind, and voted and deposited In a
ballot box prepared for the purpose and
in the mode to be provided in the call for
such election.
1. Whoever shall vote at such pri-
mary election. or at any such meeting,
or at any such caucus. or at any public
meeting for political purposes. Of the
qualified voters OF any city, town, coun-
~, district or ward in this state, or OF
any specified party or portion OF such
voters, for the nomination Of candidates
to be supported at any state, municipal
city, county, district or ward election
or for the selection OF delegates to any
political convention. or for the appoint
ment Of any political committee, not
being a legal voter in the city, county,
town, district or ward, as the case may
be. in and for which such primary cleo
tlon or meeting. as the case may be. Is
held; whoever go vote, being such legal
voter, but who Is not a known, recog-
nIzed, Heretofore openly declared mem
her Of the party Included in the terms OF
the call under which any such election
or meeting is held, whoever shall vote
or attempt TO vote upon any name not
his own, at any such primary election or
meeting; whoever shall vote or attempt
to vote more than once at any such pri-
mary election or meeting, or more than
the separate votes or ballots allowed
each voter, II more than one vote or
ballot is allowed to be cast; whoever
shall either use or receive any money
or other thing Of value to influence any
yotc or ballot at any such primary cleo
tIon or meeting; whoever shall cast any
vote or ballot at any such primary cleo
tIon or meeting, after having received
money or other thing OF value for or in
consideration of such vote or ballot,
shall be guilty OF a misdemeanor, and
shall be punished by me OF not more
than one hundred dollars, or by lmpris-
onmenl in n county jail for not more
than three months, or. in the discretion
OF the court, by both fine and Imprtson-
ment.
8. Whoever shall knowingly make
my false count of the ballots or votes
cast at any such primary election or
meeting, or any false statement or dec
laratlon Of the result of any such vote
or ballot, knowing such count or state
ment 10 be false: or whoever ehnll will
fully alter. deface or destroy any such
ballot or vote cast at any such election
or meeting. or the evidence OF any such
vote, shall be guilty OF a misdemanor
ana be punished Ms provided for in the
fourth section OF this act.
G. Nothing In this act shall be con-
sirued so as to prevent the enforcement
at any such election or meeting Of other
regulations not inconsistent with the
provisions of this act.