New-York tribune., 1901-09-02
STATE FALL ELECTIONS.
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A violation of this provision shall be deemed
misderneanor.
No person who shall receive. accept or offer
to receive or pay offer or promise to pay. con-
tribute. offer or promise to contribute TO an
other. to be paid or used. any money or any
other valuable thing as compensation OF re-
ward for the giving Withholding vote at an
election. or for registering or refra!nins from reg
fstering as an elector. who shall make any
promise to influence the giving or withholding
any such vote registration, or who shall make
or become directly or indirectly interested in
any bet wager depending upon the result of
an election. shall vote at such election. No
person who has been convicted of felony shall
have the right to register for or vote at any
election unless he shall have been pardoned and
restored TO the rights of citizenship.
RULES FOR REGISTRATION.
Additional guards against fraudulent registra-
tion were adopted by the legislature this year
Here is one of them regarding an applicant for
registration:
If the applicant shall refuse to make oath to
the questions put to him and the answers given
thereto by him. shall refuse to answer any
question upon the challenge affidavit his name
shall not he placed upon the register or, If re-
corded thereon previous to his ascettained dis
quallncatlon as an elector, the inspectors shall
enter In the remark column after such name
the word disqualified. and no person shall be al
lowed to vote on such name at theeelection. Any
applicant for registration inspector other per-
son who shall incorporate cause to be incor-
p9Tsted any false statement in such challenge
afhdavit shall be deemed guilty of perjury.
GUARD FOR THIS CITY
There is then added the following provision
| applying to New-York specifically which
probably included in view Of the frauds at cleo
tons there, and the coming election for Mayor:
! The Secretary OF State shall also furnish for
! each election district within the metropolitan
| election district a duplicate book of challenge
! atidavits. but without the stubs. each Of which
affidavits shall be printed with the words "offi
cial copy OF above" the words challenge af1-
davit printed thereon. and there shall be print
| ed on the outside cover of each such book the
words copy book OF challenge affidavits," to-
! gether with proper instructions 10 the nspec
! tors OF elections regarding the same as herein
/ provided Such duplicate books of challenge
afidavits shall be delivered to the boards of in
spectors OF election within the metropolitan cleo
! tion district at the same time and In the same
! manner as the original book Of challenge affi-
( davts. The inspectors OF election. OF
! them designated by the chairman of the board.
! of the election districts within the metropolitan
! election district shall. at the time Of FILL
ing out and signing of any challenge affi-
davit as heretofore provided, make a dupH-
cate OF such challenge affidavit. upon the
! copy Of the challenge affidavit numbered to
correspond with the original challenge affidavit.
The duplicate book Of challenge afffdavits shall
! be in the custody of the chairman of the board
of inspectors until the close OF the polls of the
election for which the registration is made. when
IL shall be filed together with the book Of unused
| original challenge affidavitS and stubs in the
Office OF the board officer delivering the same
10 the ooard or inspectors. Except as hereln-
| after provided any person who shall wtlfully
/ suppress. alter, destroy mutilate any signed
challenge affidavit official copy thereof shall
| be deemed guilty of a felony. The officer or
davit copies thereof are filed may destroy
the same six months after the date OF the eiec-
tion for which they were made, except those
| which are to be used in any criminal prosecu-
ton.
REGULATIONS FOR CHALLENGERs.
Regarding challenges the act referred to has
the following new provisions:
person may be challenged either when he
applies TO the ballot clerk for official ballots. or
| when he offers TO an Inspector the ballot he
intends 20 vote. or previously by notice to that
effect To inspector by any elector. 1t shall be
the duty of each inspector to challenge every
person Offering to vote. whom he shall know or
| suspect not TO be duly qualified elector.
| and every person whose right TO register as an
| elector was challenged at the time of registra-
| tion. providing such challenge has not pre-
| Viously been withdrawn. In the election dis
| tricts within the metropolitan electiohS dlsIrics
| whenever a person shall apply 70 the board OF
! inspectors on election day TO vote upon the name
| Of person whose right TO register as an elector
was challenged IL shall be the duty of the chair
| man OF the board OF inspectors or some member
OF such board 10 administer 10 such applicant
I the preliminary oath prescribed herein and To
read 10 such applicant each question upon the
copy of the challenge affidavit signed at the time
OF registration by the person upon whose name
the applicant desires 70 vote, and the inspectors
and watchers shall compare the answers given
TO such questions with the answers recorded
thereto upon the copy OF said challenge affidavit
and shall carefully compare the description of
the person challenged at the time of registra-
tton recorded upon the copy OF the ChaNehge
affidavit with that Of the applicant II there
shall he any material difference or conflict be-
tween the answers given by the applicant and
the answers recorded upon the copy OF the chaI-
ienge affidavit to the questions printed thereon,
or I'm the description of the person challenged
and the applicant. or II the applicant shall
refuse to answer any question put him or shall
refuse to make such oath his vote shall not De
received and the facts thereof shall he recorded
In each such case in the challenge record pro-
vided for in subdivision three of this section
| WATCHERS AT THE POLLS
| The law in regard 10 watchers has had added
10 il the following provisions:
Each political party or independent body duly
! filing or entitled to file certificates OF nomina-
| tions of candidates for offices TO be filled at any
| such election may. by writing signed by the
duly authorized county, city. town or village
committee of such political party or indepen-
! dent bodv or by the chairman secretary
thereof charged with that duty and delivered 10
one of the inspectors of election, appoint not
more than two watchers to attend any meeting
or meetings OF inspectors for an election district
| IN cities and villages having five thousand IN
| hahItants or more held for the enrolment OF the
voters thereof Such watchers may oe pIesen' q,
al such polling place and within the guard rail-,
from at least fifteen minutes before the com
mencement of the said meeting until after the
completion of the duties OF the board OF inspec-
tors for that day OF registration
THE POLITICAL CALENDAR.
The poIttcal calendar of the year is as follows:
Election Day Tuesday. November .
| Registration days in cities OF the nrst class
fJew-York and Buffalo, October H. Il, Is and
10; every day from ! a. m 10 III p m
The registration days In cities ana villages OF
< 600 nor more inhabitants. elsewhere than IN
New York and Buffalo are the same as in those
cities but the hours of registration are tron
a to o y. m. ,-., ,,.-,,.s
other th,D in cities or villages of 0.OOO tnha bi-
tants or over are: October II and ~; each DAY
from a. III. TO 3 r. m