The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-04-05

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E,W.L. aoUSEG, Secretary OF State
OF The State OF Wisconsin, do hereby
certify tnat at the Judicial Election TO
be held on T'ues4ay, A rll 8, 1906,
the following Act OF ike Legislature,
known as Chapter 522, Laws Of 1905,
is to De Submitted 10 tile vote OF the
people, in accordance with the pro-
visions Of Section 20 OF the said act:
No. 444, ST. Published June 80, 1906
CHAPTER 3D.
AN ACT to provide for the use OF the pocket
ballot and coupon voting system and to
amend section Is, statutes Of 1898.
The People OF the State OF Wisconsin, rep
resented III 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: ballot,
comprising Il sufficient number OF contrast
iEgly colOred sheets, Stapled or fastened to-
gethcr at the top, each sheet composed or
the requisite number of individual coupons.
bearing the names of all the candidates OF
Il certain political party, each coupon shall
bear the designation of the office and the
name OF the political party, ana SAID cOu-
pons shall 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 Oh
envelope, having designated spaces or pock-
cts to receive and corresponding to the sew
eral individual coupons, and means for seal
ing said envelope or folder to enclose GER
tam selected sheets or coupons; the cou-
pOnS of each sheet Shall be designated to
correspond with coupons for the same Office
OF each and every other sheet by the use
of numbers or letters And also an appfo-
pirate envelope to receive unused sections
Nv.%fC Isg,tNe. Of 1oI4 Hat
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 or
i've perforated sheets of white cardboard,
and the inside of the envelope to receive
the voted portion of the ballot and to be
deposited i'll the ballot box, and Il 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 voters choice shall be
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 i'll the APP
propriate envelope or folder furnished for
that purpose.
Section g. 1t shall be the duty of the
secretary of state to secure and maintain
on file in his Office series of contrastingly
colOred samples of cardboard, bearing in his
judgment the most appropriate col0rs for
the purposes of this act and he shall deSlS-
nate each sheet or sample of said series Dy
its most commonly used color name. No
official ballot used at any general election
shall be made up with colors differing ma
terIaIly from said samples. 1t shall further
be the duty of the secretary of state to
furnish each and every person whose duty
1t may be to print any of the official bal
lots, with samples of cOlOrS corresponding
to those on file for this purpose in his Of
fee to the end that the cOl0rS in which the
official ballot shall be made throughout the
state shall be uniform.
Section 4. At an appropriate time previ
GUS to the first general election after the
passage and approval of this act. the chair
man Of the state central committee of each
and every political party, legally entitled to
q party designation upon the official ballot
may meet in the Office of the secretary OF
state and agree if possible upon Il color to
represent each political party. If unable
TO unanimously agree then they may choose
by lot or chance different coors to repre-
sent each political party, after which agree
ment the chosen cOlors shall besused 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 the
duty of the secretary of state to designate
for each political party such color as in his
Judgment shall be the most appropriate for
the purposes of this act.
T Section s. At the meeting of the chair
MEN of the state central committees Of the
various political parties mentioned in sec
ton 4, 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 shall
be made, then it shall be the duty of the
secretary of state to arrange the various
party sheets from the top downward in
alphabetical order.
Section g. In making publication of the
election notice, the county or city clerk as
the case may be, shall precede the same
with statement which shall be substanti
ally in the following form, to be modified
or varied according to the nature Of the
election, the caption to which shall be con-
splcuously displayed but in no case shall
the space occupied by said caption be more
than one and onefourth inches in depth
ELECTION NOTICE.
Office of - C'lnrls