The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-08
REGISTRARS FIND
 MANY UNINFORMED
VOTERS CAN NOW QUALIFY UNDER CONSTITUTION AND SIMILAR OP- PORTIJNITY WILL NOT AGAIN BE OFFERED UNTIL 1912

The members of the County Board of Registrars. which is sitting this week at the courthouse, state they are put to much inconvenience by the seeming ignor7 ance of people in regards to the regis tration laws and that a great deal of misunderstanding has been the result. The members of the board wish it un- derstood that the board is now sitting In regular biennial session, as provided by the constitution. Two more sittings will be had during this year. one from Sep tember 20 to September 22, both inclusive, and one during the last week of this month, from September 26 to October 1. The public Is asked to take note of the fact that after October 1 there will be no regular registration session until 1912. Persons who are now qualified to vote must register during the sitting of this week or during one of the two other sit tings which will be held this year, or must wait until 1912 to register.
 There seems to be an almost universal misunderstanding of the registration laws, according to the Board of Regis ITdTS. oOllt ptOpit SVNiii to SiiiAh tiihe they can register at any sitting of the board whether regular or special, where as at the special sittings of the board on the Friday and Saturday before each election only those can register who have not formerly had the opportunity to reg
 ster at a regular sitting, due to minority, sickness absence from the county, or some other like cause.
 The members of the board are also de- sirous of stressing the fact that men who have already been registered in Jefferson county need not and cannot be regis tered again In case the registration cer- tsfcate of the voter Is lost he must ap- ply at the office of the probate court, where a record of registrations is kept, and not to the Board of Registrars.
 Again, all people who are now entitled to vote and fail to register this year will not have another opportunity to reg
 ster until 1912, the year for the next biennial sitting. as provided by the con- stttution At the special sittings which will be held on the Friday and Saturday before every election, city, county or state. only those will be allowed to reg ister who did not have an opportunity at the sittngs of the present year.
 ''We have a great deal of trouble con yincing people that we have no personal interest in the matter" said R. G. Hewitt, one of the registrars, when seen yesterday.
 .'During the sitting of the board held last year on the Friday and Saturday preceding the amendment election many people bitterly charged us with being partisans because we refused to register them That of course, was special sit ting and those who had had an oppor- tunity to register at the regular biennial registration period in 1908 could not reg ister because of that reason.
 'If the unregistered voters will bear in mind that they must register during 1910. if now entitled to do so, the cause of much misunderstanding will be removed. If a man Is entitled to, and fails to reg ister at one of tho three sittings of the board this fall, he will not be allowed to register at any special sitting here after but must wait until the next bi- ennial registration period in 1912.
 From our experience we have learned that comparatively very few people un- derstand that these are the provisions of the constitution