Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-22
FOR ACT MO, 3. AGAINST ACT NO. 3.

StAte or Arkansas:
 SECTION l., That section 2763 of kirby's Digest be amended as to read as follows:
 SECTION 2763. The Governor Secre- tary of State and Attorney General shall
 constitute State Board of Election Com
 missioners. whose duty it shall be tc meet in the office of the Governor ir the State Capitol on the second Monday in July next preceding any general elec-
 ton for State and County officers to ap- point three qualified electors as commits sioners in each county to select election judges for each voting precinct and to perform the other duties herein pre- scribed. Their meetings shall be public and every adjournment sha'l designate the time and place of their next meet ing until their duties completed No person who is candidate for any of flee to be voted for at such election or is a deputy or clerk or employe of any officer or person who is a candidate for election shall act County Commis- soner The appointment of the County Commissioners shall be in writing, un- der the hands of the State Board. and the said State Board shall immediately mail to each County Commissioners. at the county seat notice of his ap- pointment. and. in addition thereto. shall mail to the clerk of the Circuit Court in such county a certificate of the ap pointment of such commissioners. and upon the receipt of such certificate. 1t shall be the duty of such Circuit Clerk to cause to be served upon each of said comm issioners. by the sheriff. a notice
 
 before said clerk, on or before the day fixed for entering upon their duties and take and subscribe the oath pre- scribed by Section twenty of Article nineteen of the Constitution. which said ath shall be endorsed on the certificate and. when so endorsed. said certificate shall be filed in said office as a record
 The State Board of Election Commis- sioners shall select the County Election Commissioners from lists of qualified electors certified to it by the chairmen of the Statn commit tteey of tle two litical parties whose candidates for gov ernor received the highest and next ceding. general election. The chairman of each of said parties shall certify the names of at least three persons from each county. and the said State Board of Commissioners shall appoint two per sons from one of said lists and one from the other of said lists for County Elec- tion Commissioners In each county. In the event the chairman of party shall fail to certify the names as required by this Act for any county, the State 1nn Eoard 1 shall appoint some member of that party of it's own selection for com missioner. Said lists shall be filed in triplicate in the office of the Secretary of State ten days before the first meet ing of the State Board of Election Com missioners, and the Secretary of State shall keep one of each of said triplicate lists on file in his office and shall de of the State Board In the event of the death. resignation or refusal to accept or serve or any person certified or ap- pointed another selection shall be made from the list of the party from whose list such person was selected The State chairman shall promptly certify names those on their lists who fail or refuse to accept or serve when certified or ap- pointed. ,,.f
 SECTION 3. That Section PISA of kirey,s Digest be amended so as to read
 SECTION 27e4. The said commission CTS shall hold office until their success shal Inn neet at the coart house at Nine O'Clock in the forenoon on the second Monday i'll August prior ganize themselves into board of cleo ton commissioners by electing one mem- per chairman and another clerk. Each commissioner shall have one vote, and two snail constitute quorum, and the concurring votes of any two shall de- eide all questions before them, Provided that no proceedings with less than three members shall be had at any meeting until two of said members shall have remained actually present in the place Of meeting continuously for one hour and have had the third member publicly called three t1mes once at the beginning of said hour and two other times at i'm tervals of not less than twenty minutes. Their meetings shall be public, and time and place of their next meeting uns1l s,leth9nn their duties sc,sa are cempleted
 oIH>L 1NIlN HdL o9CJlOH G(o0 or kirbys Digest be amended so as to read as follows:
 SECTION a7e5 They shall upon ceed forthwith to appoint three judges of election for each voting precinct in the county. which appointments shall be appointed, by the sheriff of the county. and the clerk of the board shall make a record of such appointment and shall file the same; attested by the chairman tha county clerk. All of said County Com- missioners shall not be members of the same political party Said judges shall fled to the board at It's first meeting by the chairmen of the County commit tees of the two parties casting the high est and next highest number of votes in said county in the last general cleo tion for State and County officers, said lists to contain the names of not less than three qualified persons from each township and voting precinct in said county not more than two persons to be appointed from one list for judges in said board shall fill the vacancy from the list of the party nominating the per son dying or resgning.
 SECTION 4. Any authorized political party may, through it's State chairman or through it's County chairman in such tees, designate one person to act as watcher. at Zach voting precinct where no election judge of that party has been appointed. Said watchers to serve with out compensation. The names of the persons so designated shall be filed with the County Board Of Election Com nissioners at least five days before the election in which they are to act, and the County board shali send the names Of the persons so named as watchers to the election judges with the poll books tally sheets, ballots ana other supplies and such persons shall be sworn in the same manner as the judges are, and 1 shall be permitted to freely observe all acts of the judges and clerks from the opening of the polls until the comple- tion and republication of the returns but shall not In any way be permitted l to fnterefer with or perform any of their duties. nor shall they be permitted l to assist in the making out of any ticket | for voter but at tho request of any | voter requiring assistance any watcher designated by him shall be allowed to be l present at the filling out of his ticket ! by the judge assisting him.
 | SECTION 5. That section 2S04 of | kirby's Digest be amended so as to read as follows: