The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-24

different political parties where POSSIBLE,
! and shall be men of good character, able
| to read and write, at each place of hold
| ing elections in said city or town. The
said judges of election shall attend at
the places for which they are severally
appointed on the day of election, and they
together with the registrar for suck ward
or precinct, who shall attend with the
registration books, after being sworn by
| some person authorized to administer
oaths, to conduct the election fairly and
impartially, according to the Constitution
and laws of the State, shall open the
polls and superintend the same until the
close of election; they shall keep poll
books in which shall be entered the name
of every person who shall vote, and at the
close Of the election they shall certify the
same over the proper signatures and de-
post them with the said governing body
of said city or town.
Sec. g. No registration shall be allowed
on the day of election but IL any person
shall give satisfactory evidence to the reg
istrar and judges of election that he has
become of the age of twenty-One years on
the day of election, or has for any other
reason on that day become entitled t.
register and vote, he shall be allowed to
register and vote.
Sec g. When any person is challenged,
the registrar and judges of election shall
hear and determine the cause Of ci'al-
lenge under the rules and regulations Ere
scribed by the general law regulating
elections for members of the General AS
sembly, and all qualified electors who
shall have resided for ninety days imme-
diately preceding an election within the
Il
not otherwise, shall have the right to
vote in such ward for mayor and other
city or town officers.
Sec. 10. The polls shall be open on the
day of election from s O'Clock a. Il. till
sunset, and no longer, and each person
whose name may be registered SHALL BE
entitled to vote.
Sec. II. Immediately after any election
the registrar and judges of election shall
deposit the registration books for the re-
spective wards or precincts with the gov
erning body of the town or city.
Sec. II. All ballots shall be printed upon
white paper and shall be of the same
size, without device, mutilation or orna-
mentation The governing body of the city
or town shall provide for each ward or
election precinct in their respective cities
or towns necessary ballot boxes in which
to deposit the ballots; each of said boxes
shall have an opening through the lid to
admit single folded ballot, and no more.
Said ballot boxes shall be kept by the
judges of election for the use of said cleo
tion precincts respectively; and the said
registrar and judges CT election, before
the voting begins, shall carefully examine
the ballot boxes and see that there is
nothing in them, and said boxes shall be
sealed or securely fastened and not be
opened until the polls are closed.
Sec 13. When the election shall be fin
ished the registrar and judges of election
shall open the boxes and count the ballots
reading aloud the names of the persons
which shall appear on each ticket: and If
there shall be two or more tickets relied
up together, or any ticket shall contain
the names of more persoas than the cleo
tor or ornament upon t, in either of these
cases such tickets shall not be numbered
in taking the ballots, but shall be void,
and the said counting Of votes shall be
continued without adjournment until com
pleted and the result thereof declared.
The registrar and Judges of election in
each ward and voting precinct shall APP
point one of their number TO attend the
meeting of the Board OF City Ianvassers
the member who shall have been so ap-
pointed the original returns or statement
of the result of the election in such ward
or precinct, and the members OF the sew
eraI ward or precinct boards of election
VINO shall have been so appointed shall
attend the meeting of the Board of City
mr. Town Canyassers in which they shall
have been appointed members thereof.
The members of the several ward or pre-
cinct boards of election, after the original
i return or statement of the result of the
| election in the ward or precinct to which
they respectively belong shall have been
| delivered as directed in the preceding
| section shall constitute the Board Of City
| Canyassers for such election in the city
| or town in which said ward or precinct
| shall be situated.
| Sec IA majority of the members of
| the several ward or precinct boards of
| election who shall have been appointed to
| attend the City or Town Board of Can
| vassers as members thereof shall consti-
| tute such board; provided, however no
| towns where there is only one voting pre-
cinct the registrars and judges of election
| shall at the close of the election declare
| the result thereof.
| Sec. To- The Board of City or Town
| Canvassers shall meet on the next day
| after the election at II o'clock m. of that
| dav, at the Mayors office, and they shall
| each take the oath prescribed in the gen.
eral law governing elections in this State
! for members of the Board of County Can
| vassers, to be administered to them as
provided in the general law.
| Sec 10 The Board of City or Town Can
| vassers shall, at their said meeting, in
| the presence of such electors as choose to
attend open and canvass and judicially