The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-27

register on election day are foreign
s-s -ao receive :hsssT AASsi Il
zation papers after November 4,
voters who were ont Of the city on
all four preceding registration days
and those whose names may have
been wrongfuny stricken from the
list ON the Saturday preceding eisc-
ton.
Sick persons who cannot visit the
registration places on October rs, q
and 3 or November 4, may have the
registers visit them 1T their resa
dence on some day when the regis
te-e are not in session upon An sfl-
davit to that effect made by quail
ned eict6r and presented ID the board
of registration of the precinct IN
wnicn Euen sick voter may resida
Another fact that must be borne IN
mind is that young men who become
OF age on November 5. s or mnst
register on one of the first four days
of registration il in the city or be
deprived of their vote IN this presi-
Dental election Under the law they
cannot register on election day IN
less out Of the city On all four pre-
ceding days Of registration
Every voter in the city Of Keokuk
must register this year because the
law provides for general registra-
ton once every four years. the time
specified being the year Of the presi-
dential election. The only exception
10 that this year is in the case of
the soldier ut the border whom the
civil war act permits to vote in the
field without being registered The
governor has appointed commission
70 go to the border to take and csa-
vass the vote of the soldiers.
Voters who expect to be out OF the
city on election day should register
and then file an application for an
absent voters ballot in the office of
the county auditor. II ballots are
not ready for distribution when such
application is filed, ballot will be
mailed them when ballots are ready
for delivery.
The absent voters law provides
that any qualified elector. having
registered, where registration is re-
Quired, who through the nature of
his business" expects to be absent
from the county on the day Of cleo
ton, may make application to the
county auditor not more than fifteen
nor less than three days before the
day of election for an official ballot.
lib VIC uldA0 Ou =
blank furnished by the county audi
tor and must be sworn to before a
notary public or an officer authorized
to take Acknowledgements.
Upon the receipt Of such appltca-
ton not more than ten nor less than
three days before election official bal
lots are mailed to the applicant.
The latter marks his ballot in the
presence of an officer authorized by
law to administer oaths, but in such
a way that the officer cannot see
how the ballot is marked. The voter
then seals the ballot in q special an
velope provided for that purpose,
makes the affidavit provided on the
back of the envelope and then mails
it to the county auditor who turns it
over to the election board in the pre-
cfnct in which the voter resides. The
election board opens the envelope,
enters the name of the voter in tho
poll book and deposits the ballot in
the ballot box as it would that Of an
elector who appeared in person.
The auditor may also deliver An
official ballot to any qualified elector
applying in person at the Office of the
county auditor and making applica-
ton as required by law not more
than ten nor less than one secular
day before the day Of election.