Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-03-23


Of assembly.
Fifth. The county officers in the order
prescribed in section Cos of the statutes OF
1898 as amended by chapter 3o7 of the laws
of 1908, except superintendent of schools.
If any officer to be elected is to fill a
vacancy, that fact shall be so specified
upon the ballot. Whenever a proposed
amendment to the constitution or other
question shall be submitted to the people:
q concise statement of the nature thereon
shall be printed, in accordance with the
act or resolution directing its submission,
upon the ballot after the names OFF the
candidates. opposite the question submitted
shall be two spaces, after one or when
shall be printed the word yes and after
one the word mo-" and the voter may
mark his ballot in the space after which
ever word indicates his vote on the ques-
tion, unless the act or resolution provide
or require different form or Dallot, IN
which case proper form OF ballot sha.i
election districts in which voting machines
are used, no ballot clerk shall be appointed.
Section o. There shall be printed, In the
manner hereinbefore provided, by each
county clerk and each city clerk, seventy
five ballots for every fifty or fraction or
fifty votes cast at any preceding electlon
in any election district in the county or
city. Each clerk shall at the time OF or
dering official ballots to be printed cause
unofficial sample ballots to be printed, eacn
party sheet of which shall be exactly like
the official ballots in every particular; pro-
vided, however, that all pocket envelopes
furnished for sample ballots shall be maze
readily distinguished from the official bal
lots, and each such envelope, Dotn the
pocket envelope and that for the return OF
unused portions, shall also bear the ware
''unoficiar' plainly printed thereon in addi-
ton to all the directions and Instructions
which are printed upon the official ballot,
and delivered to the nt OF any ctI poi NJ
the case may be, upon the request for sucn
ballots by such committee, to an amount
not exceeding one-tenth of the ofnclal pal
lots for
city. Such request must be made Defore
the printing of the official ballots, ana
they shall be paid for in the same manner
that official ballots are paid for, without
additional charge for composition. A com
mittee may, at its own expense, order u
larger supply of sample ballots than Is re,
quired by this section. All ballots ordered
printed by county and city clerks shali De
printed at the cost OF their respective
cities or counties.
Section 10. Section 49, statutes of 1898,
is hereby amended by striking out the
word marking in line II of said section,
so that the same shall read, when SO
amended as follows: All officers upon
whom is imposed by law the duty of desig-
mating polling places shall, under the penal,
ties elsewhere prescribed, provide ana
maintain in each polling place designated
by them q sufficient number of places or
compartments, at least twenty. -four lnches
wide and deep, with shelves for Writing
which shall be furnished with sucn sup
plies and conveniences as shall! enable vot-
ers to conveniently prepare Their ballots,
and each compartment shall be furnlSheo
with door, screen or curtain of cloth so
hung as to completely conceal the voter
and anyone who may lawfully ASSIST nlni'
from observation while preparing his pal,
lot, and said room shall have guard ran
so constructed that only persons WITHIN
said rail can approach within five rect OF
the ballot boxes or such places or com
partments. The number of such places,
shelves or compartments shall not be less
than one for every fifty electors VINO votcd
at the last preceding general election III
the district. No person except the ohcers
of election, other than voters engaged III
receiving, preparing or depositlng DallotS,
shall be permitted to be within said rail.
The expense of providing and maintaining
such places, shelves, compartments. doors,
screens or curtains and guard rails snail
be provided for in the same manner as
other election expenses. All tne PAGES essor IN
marked or marking is used to mean
pencil marks made by voter in markins
his ballot shall be hereafter understood TO
mean prepared" except where 1t has
reference to voting upon question or
amendment
serve on election day: 1t shall be their
duty to take charge of the Official Dallots,
write their names or initials upon the
back of each ballot under the printed In
dorsement thereon, and deliver to eacn
voter as he enters the booth one ballot duly
Endorsed. They may, If requested by any
voter, instruct him as to the proper man
rer of preparing his ballot but shall give
no advice or suggestions, nor express any
preference. nor make any requests as TO
the person or ticket the voter snail vote
for. $500
Section 10 On receiving his ballot the
! elector shall forthwith, and without teav-
ing the polling place. retire alone to one
of the booths or compartments to prepare
the same If he wishes to vote for per-
son for certain office whose name IS not
on the ballot, he may write such name I'M
der the printed name of one OF the can
didates for that office. An elector may use
or copy an unofficial sample ballot which
may have been prepared In advance OF
his entering the polling place, but he snail
not use or bring into any such place any
| official ballot other than those which ne
rightfully receives from the ballot clerks;
! After preparing his ballot the elector shall
close the same so as to conceal the con,
tents of both envelopes completely; he shall
proceed to the presence of the inspectors
and seal the pocket ballot containing his
choice and the return envelope containing
unused portions of the ballot, so that the
said inspectors may see him seal them he
shall then vote forthwith and before lcay-
ing the polling place.
Section IS. If it shall be announced to
the inspectors of any precinct that voter
is at the door who is unable to enter the
polling place without being assisted they
may, in their discretion, appoint one or
| their number to take an official ballot and
90 to the entrance of such place and pre-
sent it to any such phys cally disabled
person. and assist him in preparing It; II
the ballot shall have been prepared, 1t
shall be closed and Immediately taken into
| the polling place. whereupon the inspector 5lIs
his hand a ''ballot offered by ------------
| (naming the person., person who Is
physicaily disabled from entering the room
without assistance" He shall then ask.
"Does any one object to the reception OF
this balot?' II no objections are offered,
| the ballot shall be deposited In the box;
and minute shall be made on the poll
book by the clerks of election, thus: bal
| lot received at the door" In case objec-
| tion is made to. the reception of ballot
| by any qualified elector present. the IN
| sDector shall decide upon the objection.
and, il they deem 1t well founded. shall
destroy the ballot; otherwise IT shall . be
| Inspector shall Immediately notify the vot-
| cr of the fact.
| Sect on IA. All ballots cast at any cleo
| ton shall be counted for the persons Tor
| whom they are intended, so far as such
] Infant can be ascertnined therefrOm. In