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

CHAPTER 629, LAWS OF 1913.
AN ACT To amend sections 44a-1,
dali, 44a-l2, 44a-1s, 44a-1S. 44a-
90, 44a-21, 44a-22, 44a-23, 44a-24,
44a-25, 44a-27, 44a-29. 44a-30, 44a-'
49, 44a-33, 44a-34 and 44a-36 Of the
statutes; to repeal sections 41a--S, 44a-
26, 44a-31 and 44a-35; and to create
-four new sections to be designated
44a--5m, 44a-8, 44a-26 and 44a-31 Of
the statutes relating to the coupon bal
lot
The people Of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section 1. Sections 44a-1, 44a-2, 44a-
and 44a--4 of the statutes are amended
to read; Section Ala. 1t is the inten-
ton Of this act to provide a form Of bal
lot for use at elections, whereby
there will be no opportunity for
fraudulent practices, one that may be
counted rapidly and whereby complete
record will be kept in the tally sheets,
showing how each ballot was counted,
and this act shall be SO construed as to
give force and effect to this expressed in
tention.
Section 44a-2. /. After the passage
and approval Of this act it shall be lawful
for the county board OF any county, or
the city council of any city or the COM
missioners of any city under commission
form of city government in this state TO
adopt the hereinafter described coupon
ballot and its appropriate tally sheets for
use in that county or city at general or
city elections and when SO adopted said
heinafter described coupon ballot shall
be used at general or city elections in the
counties or cities where thus adopted.
Provided however, that such county board
Or city council or the commissioners or
any city under commission form of city
government may order the discont1nu-
ance of such coupon ballot in its reSpec-
tive city or county after it has been used
at one or more elections there
in and return to the use Of sCch other
form of ballot as may be authorized by
law. Provided, further, that the expense
for furnishing such coupon ballot shall
not exceed the present expense foc such
purpose except in counties Or cities where
such expense is now less than Twelve dol
lars per thousand, except as the increase
in population shall occasion increased eX-
pense.
2. Provided, further, that such county
board or city council shall, before adopt
ing the provisions of this act, secure the
rights under patent to use said coupon
ballot within the city or county where
thus adopted, and shall not pay more than
a royalty of five mills per ballot for such
rights.
Section 44a-3 Except in city elections
under the provisions Of sections $50 to
35-24, inclusive, all ballots
used at elections, in accords
ance with section 44a-2 Of this act, shall
be substantially in form as follows:
% The ballot shall consist OF suffl-
perforated sheets stapled together at the
top above the first line Of perforation.
Each sheet shall be approximate
ly six inches wide and as long as may pc
necessary to accommodate the names OF
all the candidates of it's political desfgna-
tion printed as hereinafter provided for.
CD Each sheet shall be perforated into
two columns of equal width by two par
alel lines of perforation three-fourths or
an inch apart, extending from the bots
tom of the sheet to the first line of cross
perforation at the top. Upon such three
fourths Of an inch strip in the center or
the sheet shall be printed, lengthwise OF
the strip in type as large as the length
and breadth of such strip will conven-
iently permit, the name Of the color of
the sheet and the party or political deslg-
nation of the sheet.
90 Each column Of each sheet shall be
perforated into coupons approximately
three-fourths of an inch wide, except That
one coupon may be wide enough TO ac-
commodate the names OF the party cam
didates for president and vice president
and Of all the names, OF the party candi-
dates for presidential electors. when such
are to be elected. The first line of per-
foration near the top Of each sheet shall
extend across the entire sheet SO that the
whole sheet of coupons may be readily
torn off at ouch croas line. Provided.
however, such tWc-coiurnn arrangement
of candidates na1nes may, III deemed ex-
pedient, be departed from III elections
where a smaller number OF officers are to
be elected at genera! elections, pGt tho
color name, the party name or political
designation Of each sheet ard the here
matter mentioned instructions to voters
must appear on each sheet.
IS (4) There shall be space at
the top of each sheet to permit the print
ing of brief instructjons to yots"s above
the first cross line Of perforation.
90 There ,s shall 30 q. as n many any
litical parties legally entitled to q party
designation upon the official ballot. and
a sheet for individual nominations II
there are any, which sholi be white and
Of sufficient length to accommodate ali
individual nominationa.
Section 44a-4. The coupons Of each
sheet shall be numbered consacutlvsly be-
ginning with the upper. left-hend coupon
which shall be numbered one. Such NUM-
bers shall be printed on the outer mar
gins Of the coupons in figures eighteen
point In size. All party sheets shall con-
tain the same number of coupons and
shall be numbered correspondence In q
general election coupon number OF each
sheet shall bear the designation "For