The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1913-08-15
VOTERS OF
THE CITY.
viii Be Asked To Cast Six
Separate Ballots
At The Primaries To Be Held
On September 2
Some Valuable Information
Given By Judge Gale
To The Members OF The
Board Of Election
At An Informal Meeting Held
On Tuesday Evening

| JouSe JOhH L. Gale, president of
the Columbus Blank Book COMPANY.
who has been travelling over the
state meeting with boards of cleo
tions, was in Mt. Vernon Tuesday
| evening, and met with the members
OF the deputy state supervisors of
elections of Knox county and explain
ed many sections of the new laws rel
ative to the coming primaries and
the general election in November. A
number of important points were
brought out by Judge Gale, which
will be of interest to the voters of
Mt. Vernon.
In the first place the voter in this
city will case five if not six separate
ballots at the primaries on Septem-
Der 2, and on account of the fact that
there are no justices of the peace to
be elected in Clinton township this
fall the voters are saved from cast
ing the seventh separate ballot.
Take it in the city of Mt. Vernon,
here are the ballots to be cast: The
city ticket the township ticket, ticket
containing the candidates for men,
bers of the board of education, quad
rennial appraisers, constitutional
amendments and initiative and refer
endum propositions, if they are not
knocked out by the courts before the
primaries.
Thus it will be seen that the judges
and clerks in the various pl ecincts of
the city will have their hands full in
counting so many different ballots. In
addition to counting the ballots the
judges will be required to string all
the ballots cast on wires, seal them.
place them in paper bags and then
seal the bags with sealing wax. The
ballots of each party and the others
as mentioned above must be strung
and sealed separately. Instructions
will be sent out by the Knox county
board of elections to the judges in
each precinct telling them just how
to string and seal the ballots. All
ballots thus strung and sealed must
be sent in to the board of elections
where they will be kept in a safe
place for thirty days and then burn
ed.
Another thing explained by Judge
Gale was in reference to making the
official count and the unofficial count
to be sent to the secretary of state
the day after the primaries and cleo
ton. The law provides that the day
after the primaries and the election
the board of election make an unoffi-
ciai count and sends the same to the
secretary of state. Heretofore the
board of elections made the official
count the second day after the pri-
maries or elections. Hereafter the
election board does not make the Of
fetal count-only on quadrennial as
SCISSORS and on the constitutional
amendments. This work which was
done by the election board will here
after be done by the city auditor in
the city of Mt. Vernon and by the
clerks in the various townships of the
county. They will complete the alb
stract and send the same to the Sec
retary of state. The necessary alb
stract books will be furnished by the
election board.
Another important matter yet to be
determined upon is the manner in
which the address of every voter of
the county is to be kept The secre-
tary of state has not yet given
out the plan for recording this. The
new law provides that the name and
postoffice address of each voter must
be obtained at the next election. 1t
is probable that the judges of elec-
ton will be compelled to ask each
voter his postoffice address and write
it in the poll book. This law was
passed by the legislature in order that
the board of elections might have in
their office complete poll of all the
voters in the county together with
their postoffice address.
There were other matters brought