Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-04-02
Election Notice
OFFICE OF CITY CLERK,
March Is, 1903.


To the Electors of the City of Mineral
Point, Wis:
Notice is hereby given that a city
election is to be held in several towns
wards and election precincts of the
city of Mineral Point, on the eth day
of April, 1903, at which the officers
named below are to be chosen. The
names of the candidates for each office
to be voted for, whose nominations
have been certified to this Office, are
given opposite the title of the Office
and under the appropriate party or
other designation, each in its proper
column, and the questions submitted
20 a vote are stated below.
INFORMATION TO VOTERS.
The following Instructions are
given for the information and guild
ance of voters. A voter, upon enter
ing the polling place and giving his
name and residences will receive a bal
lot from the ballot clerk which must
have endorsed thereon the names or
initials of both ballot clerks, and no
other ballot can be used. Upon re-
ceiving his ballot, the voter must re-
tire alone TO booth or compartment
and prepare the same same for vot-
ing. A ballot clerk may inform the
voter as TO the proper manner of
marking q ballot, but he must not ad-
wise or indicate 10 any manner to
whom to vote for. The voter. if he
wishes to vote for all the candidates
nominated by any party, should make
a cross mark X under the party
designation printed at the top of the
ballot in the square made for that
purpose. A ballot so marked, and
having no other mark, will be count
ed for all the candidates of that party
in the column underneath, unless the
names of some of the candidates of
the party have been erased or a cross
mark be placed in the square under
the name or AT any place in the space
occupied by the name or names of the
candidates in another column, and
will he counted for all names written
in lieu of one erased. If the voter
wishes to vote for some of the candi-
dates OF different political parties, he
should make cross mark under the
name of each candidate he desires to
vote for, or at any place within the
space in which the name is printed.
If he wishes to vote for a person for a
certain office whose name is not on
the ballot, he must write the name in
the blank space under the printed
name of the candidate for the Office.
The ballot should not be marked in
any other manner. IT the ballot be
spoiled, it must be returned to the
ballot clerk, who must issue another
in it's stead but not more than three
in all to any voter. Five minutes
time is allowed in booth to mark
ballot. Unofficial ballots or memo
randum to assist the voter in marking
his ballot can be taken into the booth,
and may be used TO copy from, The
ballot must not be shown so that any
person can see how it has been mark
ed by the voter, After it is marked.
it should be folded so that the inside
cannot be seen, but so the printed
endorsements and signatures of the
bollot clerks on the outside may be
seen. Then the voter should pass out
of the booth or compartment, give his
name to the inspector in charge of the
ballot box, hand him his ballot to be
placed in the box, and pass out of the
voting place. A voter who declares