Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1904-11-04
Information
FOR
DEMOCRATIC VOTERS
Together With Statement Of the
QUALIFICATIONS AND DUTIES
OF ELECTORS.

OF ELECTORS.
i.-ELEcTIoNs,WHEN TO BE HELD
a.--GENERAL ELECTIONS. , -,d
Tuesday next following first Monday
OF November
b.-LOCAL OR MUNICIPAL ELEC-
TIONS.
On the third Tuesday of February;
and for special purposes may be or
dered by the governor and the courts
on other days.
c.-POLLS.
To be opened at o'clock A. M. and
closed at Z o'clock P. NJ.
2.-QUALlFICATIoNS OF VOTERS.
All persons born or naturalized in
the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
United States and of the States where
in they reside.
Every male citizen twenty-one years
of age, possessing the following quail
fications shall be entitled to vote at all
eleCtions:-
Ale shall have been a citizen Of
the United States at least one month.
b.-He shall have resided in the state
one year Tor if having been a qualified
elector or native-born citizen of the
state he shall have removed therefrom
and returned, then six months imme-
diately preceding the election.
c.-He shall have resided in the cleo
ton district where he shall offer to
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preceding the election.
d.--lf twenty-five years of age, or up
wards, he shall have paid, within two
years, state or county tax, which shall
have been assessed at least two months
and paid at least one month before the
election.
eff the name of the voter is not
upon the registry list, he cannot vote
unless he makes proof of his right to
vote, as required by law in the fol-
lowing manner:
by producing one witness to the
fact OF his residence for two months
Immediately preceding election in the
district in which he wishes to vote;
which witness shall be a qualified cleo
tor OF that district and who shall be
sworn or affirmed and subscribe a writ
ten or partly written and partly print
ed affidavit, which affidavit shall define
| clearly where the person claiming to
be voter resides.
2.-He shall take and subscribe n
written or partly written and partly
printed affidavit stating to his best
knowledge when and where he was
born; that he is citizen of the United
States for one month; and of the COM
monwealth of Pennsylvania for one
year, or If he has formerly been an
| elector of the commonwealth, or ma
tive born citizen thereof, and had re-
/ moved therefrom and returned that he
has resided in the commonwealth for
the six months next preceding the cleo
ton at which he wishes to vote; that
he has been a resident of the election
district in which he wishes to vote for
at least two months Immediately pre-
ceding the election at which he wishes
| to vote; that he has not moved into the
district for the purpose Of voting there
in; that, If he is twenty-five years of
| age or upwards, he has paid a state or
| county tax within two years, which
| was assessed at the last two months
and paid at least one month before the
election. The affidavit shall also state
when and where the tax was assessed
| and when and where and to whom paid
and the tax receipt must be produced
! for inspection, unless the affiant swears
| or aflirms that it has been lost or de-
stroyed, or that he never received any.
| (Act of May 6, 1S99.)
f.-Any qualified citizen of an cleo
| ton district, even IL the name of the
person wishing to vote is registered,
may challenge his vote before the
claimant receives his ballot, but chal-
lenge may be made at any time before
he casts II. whereupon the claimant
must prove his right to vote in the
manner set forth in section e" above.
g.-For the purpose of voting, q
minor becomes of age on the day pre-
ceding his twenty-first birthday. II
person claims to vote on age he shall
produce as witness to his two months
residence in the district where he
claims right to vote, one qualified
voter of that district, who shall make
affidavit to the residence of the claim
ant in that district for two months
and also the claimant shall himself
make affidavit that he is a native born
citizen OF the United States; that he Is
twenty-one years old but under twenty
two years of age; that he has been
resident of the United States for one
month and Of Pennsylvania for one
year Immediately preceding that cleo
ton, and of the district where he
wishes to vote for two months imme-
diately preceding said election. II the
person wishing to vote on age was not
born in the United States he. must in