Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-03-26
NEWS River Wis Monday March 1905

I,W. L. HOUSER, Secretary of State
of the State of Wisconsin, do hereby
certify that at the judicial Election to
be held on Tuesday, A pril 3, 1905,
the following Act of the Legislature,
known as Chapter 522, Laws of 1905,
is to be submitted to the vote of the
people, in accordance with the pro-
visions of Section 20 of the said act:
No. 444, 81 Published June 80, 1905
CHAPTER 522.
AN ACT to provide for the use of the pocket
ballot and coupon voting system and to
amend section 45, statutes Of 1898.
Inc People of the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
Section l. All ballots hereafter used at
any general election shall be of substantial
~ the following form, to-wit: A ballot,
comprising sufficient number of contrast
1ngIy colored sheets, stapled or fastened to-
gether at the top, each sheet composed OF
the requisite number of individual coupons,
bearing theAnames of all the candidates of
certain political party, each coupon shall
bear the designation of the office and the
name OF the political party, and said cou-
pons snail be consecutively numbered or let
tered. Each sheet shall have an exposed
portion where there are attached together,
bearing respectively the names OF the diff
ferent political parties. And folder or
cts to receive and corresponding to the sew
eral individual coupons, and means for seal
ing said envelope or folder to enclose GER
tain selected sheets or cOupons; the cou-
pons Of each sheet shall be designated to
correspond with coupons for the same ONCE
Of each and every other sheet by the use
pirate envelope to receive unused sections
or portions Of sections of each ballot. A
sample of the envelope TO receive portions
of the ballot unused after voting, of the
certificate of the inspector, and photo
graphic copies of the ballot consisting of
five perforated sheets of white cardboard,
and the inside of the envelope to receive
the voted portion of the ballot and to be
deposited in the ballot box, and photo
graphic sample showing ballot partly pre-
pared for voting, are hereto attached.
Section .. Each polling place shall be fur
nished with two appropriate ballot boxes,
into one of which that part of the ballot
containing the voter choice shaA DE
placed and into the other of which shall be
placed that part of the ballot remaining
after the choice has been made, each part
having been previously enclosed in the ap-
propriate envelope or folder furnished Ior
that purpose.
Section 3. 1t shall be the duty of the
secretary of state to secure and maintain
on file in his office series of contrastlngiy
colored samples of cardboard, bearing III his
Judgment the most appropriate co!ofS Tor
the purposes of this act, and he snail des!g'
nate each sheet or sample OF SAID series Dy
its most commonly used color name. NO
official ballot used at any general electlOh
shall be made up with cOlors differing ma
teriaIly from said samples. 1t shaH Iurther
be the duty of the secretary of state TO
furnish each and every person whose uuty
it may be to print any of the Official pal
lots, with samples of colOrs corresponding
to those on file for this purpose III ms OF
nee to the end that the colOrs in which the
official ballot shall be made throughout the
state shall be uniform.
Section l. At an appropriate time preyi-
Gus to the first general election after the
passage and approval of this act, the chalt-
man Of the state central committee OF each
and every political party, legally ehLltleu 10
a party designation upon the odlclal DalIot.
NAV meet in the Office of the secretary OF
state and agree if possible upon color to
represent each political party. II unaDle
TO unanimously agree then they may CHOOSE
by lot or chance different COlorS TO repre-
sent each political party, after winch agree
ment the chosen colors shall be used TO rep
resent the respective political parties IN
printing the official ballot. If no such
agreement shall have been made on or be
fore the LIST day of July then it shall be me
duty of the secretary of state 70 designate
for each political party such color as III ms
Judgment shall be the most appropriate Tor
the purposes of this act.
Section . At the meeting Of the chair
men of the state central committees OF the
various political parties mentioned III sec
ton f. of this acT, the said chairmen may
agree if possible upon the question of the
position to be occupied by each party sheet
in the ballot. If no such agreement small
lie made. then it shall be the duty of the
secretary of state TO arrange the various
uarty sheets from the top downward in
alphabetical order.
Section G. Ia making publication OF the
election notice. the county or city clerk as
the case may be, shall preceda the same
with a statement which shall be substanti-
ally in the following form. to be modlhed
or varied according TO the nature of the
election the caption to which shall be con,
spicuously displayed but in no case shall
the space occupied by said caption be more
fhau one and one-fourth inches III depth:
ELECTION NOTICE.
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