Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

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/ No. AT, 81 Published June g. 1913.
CHAPTER 459, LAWS OF 1913.
AN ACT-To create subsection of Sec
! ton 33, to amend subsection 4 of sec
ton Al, subdivision Co Of subsection /
of section 81, subdivision CD of sub
section 10 of section SO, sections rs, ST,
! Sim, SO and subsections l and of sec
ton 94a Of the statutes, relating to cleo
| lions.
The people of the State of Wisconsin.
represented in Senate and Assembly, do
enact as follows:
Section /. There is added to section 80
} of the statutes new subsection to read:
| (Section 33) Z. Whenever a constitu-
| tlOnal amendment or other question is re-
| CURED to be submitted to vote of the
| peope, the secretary Of state shall, not
/ less than fourteen or more than twenty
! days prior to the election at which such
amendment or question Is required to be
submitted transmit by mail certified
/ copy thereof to each county clerk in the
state
Section g. Subsection Of section A.
subdivision Co of subsection / of section
81, subdivision (b) of subsection 10 of sec
ton 38, sections rs, 81, SIM, SO and sub
! sections 1 and of section 94a of the
I statutes are amended to read (Section
| AID 4. Ballots shall be printed and in
possession of the county clerk and city
! clerk at least four days before any judi
! cial or general election, and in case of a
t city election the ballots shall be printed
/ and in possession of the city clerk at least
/ two days before election, and subject to
| inspection by the candidates and their
agents. If any mistake be discovered in
printing or arrangement, it shall be the
! duty Of the clerk to correct the same
| without delay.
(Section 3D /. (c) voter may vote
for an entire group of candidates for
presidential electors by making g cross
/ (X) or mark in the circle (O)
/
Of the party column, or he may vote for
| the candidates for presidential electors by
making a cross (X) or mark in the square
| at the right Of the name Of each candi-
| date for elector for whom he wishes to
vote. If a voter does not wish to vote
| for any one or more candidates for pres
/ idential electors in the group, he may
| erase the name Of such candidate or can
space provided therefor, the name or
names Of the person or persons for whom
he desires to vote, and the cross CX) or
mark in the circle (O) at the head Of the
each of the candidates
| in such column If voter does
not wish to vote for any candidates for
president or vice president or for any
presidential electors, whose names appear
upon the ballot, he may insert or write
in the names of the candidates for presl-
| dent and vice president, and presidential
i electors to a number equal to the number
/ or electors TO DG GI6cl6U, IN the appfO-
pirate spaces in the blank column at the
| right Of the ballot.
(Section $50 10. (b) There shall be a
| space at the top of each party column,
| in which shall appear the party designa-
| ton. Under the party designation shall
| be placed circle (O) of three eighths Of
| an inch in diameter, formed by black
| lines, in which the voter by his mark may
! declare that he votes for all of the can
/ didates for presidential electors whose
DS X
| cept such names as are erased, written
+ in, Or marked in some other column. Be-
meath the circle shall appear the words
| For President (Naming such candi-
| date, and For Vice President" (naming
! such candidate), and Immediately be-
meath shall appear the words Electors Of
! President and Vice President" and I'M
derneath said words and separated by
! lines shall appear the names Of the per-
sons who are candidates for presiden
tial electors OF such party, and under each
such name shall appear q blank line.
Section rs. The chairman Of the in
spectors or one Of them appointed by him
shall Immediately after the general cleo
/ ton of November 1912. and biennially
| thereafter, deliver to the clerk
I of the town, city or village one of said
statements and poll lists, to be filed and
! preserved in his office, and shall, with all
| convenient dispatch and within two days
| after such election, deliver to,
or send by registered letter from
! the nearest postoffice, the other state
ment and two poll lists to the county
clerk, they having been by the inspectors
carefully sealed up, with the Oaths of the
inspectors and clerks affixed, in an en-
vel0pe properly directed to such clerk.
The person delivering or sending such
returns shall receive as compensation
therefor fifty cents, together with post
age and registration fees paid by him. to
be paid out Of the town, city Or village
treasury.
Section 81 l. The county clerk shall
within seventeen days after any
general election transmit to the secretary
of state certified copy of each statement
of the county board of canvassers Of the
votes given for electors of president and
vice president, state officers, representa-
tive in congress, state senator and mem
| Der of assembly, where the senate and
assembly district embraces more than one
county. The names Of persons not regu-
larly nominated receiving a comparatively
small number of votes may be omitted
from the returns of the county clerk and
their votes returned as scattering votes.
2. He shall also transmit by mail to
! the secretary Of state, within
! seventeen days after any general cleo
| ton, a list of the names of persons elected
| in the county as members of senate and
assembly and county officers at such cleo
ton.
Section SIM The county clerk shall
furnish to the secretary of state, on
blanks furnished by the secretary of state
for that purpose, the names and party
designations of all candidates for nomi-
nation at the primary and the
votes received by each by voting pre-
cincts and the names and party desgna-
ton Of all candidates for office at the
general election as well as those candi-
dates for office at the spring election,
which appear, upon ballots furnished by
the county Or state, such returns to be
made to the industrial commits
| sion within thirty days after such pri-
mary or election. He shall also
furnish any other information called for
by said industrial commission
necessary for the compilat ton of the blue
book or regular report of the in
dustrial commission.
Section So. Whenever any constitution
al amendment shall have been submitted
to the people, or any other question or
proposition shall be submitted by the
i legislature to a vote of the people,
the votes for and against such amend
nent, question or proposition shall be
taken, canvassed. certified and recorded,
and certified copies of the statement