The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-28
AUDITOR TELLS
CITIZENS. HOW
TO REGISTER
Registration Necessary Oct.
5 Before Voter May Cast
His Ballot at the NOvem-
Der Election.
Persons Absent May Qualify
to Vote by Filing Applica-
ton Blanks Before Wit
neSSeS.
BY L. s. BOWMAN.

Every voter must register in order
election. The registration boards will
hold their sessions on Monday, October
S, 1914 Boards will be in session from
6 o'clock a. m. to 9 o'clock p. m. Of
that day, except when necessary to
accommodate the voters of any pre-
cinct, it may be prolonged either one
or two days, but then only upon a
request in writing signed by ten voters
in the precinct, three of whom are
freeholders, filed with the board of
registration. The applications of sick,
uuarantined and absent voters should
be handed to the board on the first
day of the session, as at that time
it may not be definitely known that
there will be second days session.
Sick, quarantined and unavoidably
absent from the county are required
to execute an application containing
all matters required of applicants in
person. This application must state
that on the day and at the time OF the
regular session of the board of his
precinct he is or will be, unavoidably
absent from the county, stating his
whereabouts on the day, or days, of
registration, or that he is sick or quar-
antined, as the case may be.
Need Two Witnesses.
The application must be sworn to
before an officer authorized to adj
minister oats and using an official seal,
and two freeholders, residing in the
precinct must certify to their acquaint-
ance with applicant, that he is the per-
son he represents himself to be, and
that the facts stated in the application
are true This application, so certified
and sworn to, must be delivered to the
board while sitting for the purpose of
receiving applications, by any regis
tered voter Of that precinct (and not
by mail or otherwise), on the 10Th day
before the election, or the first day of
the regular session.
Some of the most important changes
in the registration law since 1912 are
as follows:
The present law provides for only
one regular session instead of three as
in the former law, provided, however.
that upon petition signed by at least
three hundred resident freehOlder vOt-
ers of the county, and filed with the
county auditor at least eighty days be-
fore the election, there shall be held
in each precinct of the county ses-
sion of the board of registration for
one day only, on the fifty-ninth day
before the election, which shall be
called the September session, but as
no petition was filed in Wayne county,
there will be but the one regular ses-
sion fer registration.
lengthen Hours.
The number of hours which the
board must be in session has been in
creased. Under the old law sessions
began at 6 o'clock a. m and continued
to o'clock p. m; under the new law
the board shall begin at o'clock a. M
and remain in session until o'clock
p. m.
The old law required all voters to
appear before the board in person in
order to register The new law pro-
vides for absent voters to register by
affidavit.
The pay for registration officials
has been changed. Under the old law
officials received 81 per day for time
actually employed, and no mileage for
inspectors was provided for. Under
the new law the inspector shall re-
ceivcs for all his services, before. on
and after registration day the sum Of
So: and in addition he shall be paid 10
cents per mile for each mile of the
shortest distance between his resi-.
dence and the auditors office. The
clerks shall receive for all services
performed the sum Of &c. provided.
however, that If the board of registra-
ton shall be in session two or more
successive days, then each member of
the board shall receive an additional
SO for each succeeding day
The old law required registration
for city elections in any city of more
than $4,000 inhabitants according TO
the last preceding United States cen.
sus. The new law applies to cities Of
the first and second classes onlv
which does not apply to the CITY of
Richmond, it being a city of the third
class.