Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-04-02

INV. L. HOUSER, Secretary of State
of the State of Wisconsin, do hereby
certify that at the judicial Election to
be held on Tuesday, April 3, 1900,
the following Act of the Legislature,
known as Chapter 522, Laws of 1905,
people, in accordance with the pro-
visions of Section 20 of the said act |:
No. 444, 81 Published June 80, 1905
CHAPTER 3d..
AN ACT to provide for the use of the pocket
ballot and coupon voting system and to
amend section 40, statutes of 1898.
The 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 a sufficient number OF contrast
ingly colored sheets, stapied or fastened to-
gether at the top each sheet composed OF
the requisite number of individual coupons,
bearing the names of all the candidates Of
a certain political party, each coupon shall
bear the designation Of the office and the
name of the political party, and 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 a folder or
envelope, having designated spaces or peck
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 office
of each and every other sheet by the use
of numbers or letters. And also an appro-
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
II the voted portion of the ballot and to be
deposited in the ballot box, and a 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 in the APP
propriate envelope or folder furnished Tor
that purpose.
Section g. 1t shall be the duty of the
secretary of state to secure and maintain
on file in his office a series of contrastingly
colOTed samples of cardboard, bearing in his
Judgment the most appropriate colOrs for
the purposes of this act, and he shall deSlg-
nate each sheet or sample of said series by
its most commonly used color name. No
official ballot used at any general election
shall be made up with colorS differing MAJ
terially from said samples. 1t shall further
be the duty of the secretary of state to
furnish each and every person whose duty
X MY he 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 colorS in which the
official ballot shall be made throughout the
state shall be uniform.
Section T. At an appropriate time prevf-
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
a party designation upon the official ballot,
NAV meet in the olflce of the secretary or
state and agree if possible upon color 70
represent each political party. II unable
to unanimously agree then they may choose
by lot or chance different cclors TO repre-,
sent each political party, after which agree
ment the CHOSEN cOlOrS shall be used 20 rep
resent the respective political parties IN
printing the Official ballot II no such
agreement shall have been made on or be
fore the LIST day of July then II snail Oe the
duty Of the secretary of state to designate
for each political party such color as III MS
judgment shall be the most appropriate Tor
the purposes of this act.
Section D At the meeting Of the chair
men OF the state central committees Of the
various political parties mentioned III 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 me
secretary of state to arrange me various
party sheets from the top downward IN
alphabetical order
Section 6 IN making publica ton of the
election notice, the county or CITY clerk as
the case may be, shall preccde the same
with a statement which shall be substanti-
ally in the following form. TO be modified
or varied according to the nature OF the
slaction. the caption to which shall be con,
spicuously displayed but in 70 case shall
the space occupied by said caption be more
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ELECTION NOTICE.
Office of - Clerk.