The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-02

fore his departure. and also arranged
for the supply Of paper for the ballots,
each OF which carries a water mark,
which can hardly be duplicated here.
Every sheet was made to special order
on the coast. Any ballots found in the
ballot boxes without the water mark
will be fraudulent.
When Secretary Carter departed for
the mainland the Governor issued a
proclamation according to the terms of
the County Act, and copies of the rules
and regulations were prepared, as these
had to be sent to the inspectors of cleo
ton as soon as they We're appointed.
Before Carter left he sent a letter to
every inspector officiating. last year,
asking il they were willing to serve
again and, If not, to recommend some
one to serve in their place.
1t took about six weeks to get all
the replies in and arrange the list of
new appointees. When this was fin
ished the Governor submitted the COM
plete list of representa- of both the
Republican and Home Rule parties and
this, with but a few final changes,
stands. The new inspectors received
their commissions and signed their
oaths of office, which have been re-
turned to Secretary Carter and were
filed by Electoral Registrar Buckland.
The next thing was the publication of
a notice to candidates telling them
what was to be done in the way of
filing nomination papers. With about
two exceptions these were filed in good
shape, one of the exceptions being of a
candidate who had unintentionally
named Secretary Carter, instead of
himself, as Supervisor for a district
in Hawaii. This was rectified in time.
This matter was one of the closest
items of labor connected with the Reg
iistrars sabors,, for every nomination
paper so filer had to be signed by twen-
ty-five registered voters of the candi-
dates district. The names had to be
!carefully checked off. and lists of voters
from every precinct in all the Islands
had to be printed alphabetically, in or
| der that this be done properly. One
candidate for supervisor at large had
his papers signed by twenty-five voters
[ from both the fourth and fifth districts,
without giving the precinct of each
voter. This was eventually worked out
satisfactorily. Each candidate deposit
| ed $25, receiving receipt.
! Then was issued a BY Authority no
tice by the Governor naming the bal
loting places and inspectors of election
| in every district, and while this was be-
ing done printed lists of registered vot-
! ers were prepared for every precinct
in the islands, something which had
never been done before. These were
made up on the affidavits of voters in
1902, and arranged alphabetically
Enough were printed so that each pre-
cinct could be liberally supplied. Then
! followed the posting of the Governors
proclamation, both in English and Ha-
waiian. The preparation followed of
the ballot receipts, blank ballots, cleo
ton supplies, copies of the registry OF
voters, printed return envelopes, forms
for expenses of inspectors. Blanks
were prepared for the election inspec-
tors to fill in their reports to the Elec-
toral Registrar on election night.
| The preparation of the ballots was
one of the most important items. Be
fore Mr.. Carter went away he devised
a plan for the ballot to take the form