French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-26

rounds. The poll holders at each vot-
ing place in this county will be in
structed to- comply with the law in
regard to.this matter of preparing ta-
bic, desks and booths.
All tickets of both parties will be
carried to the polling places by the
election officers, and will remain in the
hands of poll holders, and each voter
when he goes up to the polls to vote
will be furnished the tickets he calls
for, and any register or Judge of cleo
ton, when called on by any voter who
comes to vote, to assist him in the
marking of his ballots, will do so. Or
If the voter desires he can call any
~bystander on the election grounds. To
go up to the polls with him and assist
him in marking his ballots. The law
makes it the duty of any registrar of
election to assist a voter in marking
MS ballot just as he wants to vote
them. 1t also provides that any voter
shall have the right to take with him
to the polls, any friend he desires to
have help him mark his ballot as he
wants to vote them.
NO VOTER SHOULD BE FRIGHT
-ENED AWAY FROM THE ELECTION
BY ANY REPORT THAT HE CAN'T
VOTE UNLESS HE WANTS TO VOTE
A STRAIGHT PARTY TICKET. A
proyiso at the end Of Section II of the
law applicable to the coming election
says: Nothing herein contained shall
be construed to prevent any electOr
from casting at the general election a
Tree and UntTammeled ballot for the
candidate Or candidates of his choice"
ANY Democrat who desires to vote
Tor Mr.. Britt fer Congress in the COM
ng election will have q perfect right TO
40 so. And any Republican who de-
.slreS TO vote for Mr.. weaver will have
& perfect right to do SO. And the same
Is true as regards any other candidate
CT either party.
ANY voter has the right und.r lie
aW, to permit any registrar Or judge Of
election TO deposit his ballots in the
boxes, or he may deposit his ballots in
the boxes himself. Any voter has
a right, under the law. as it now is, to
prepare his ballot in secret and vote
his ballot folded if he SO desires. S 30
that no man, outside of the voter HIM
self, shall know for whom he voted.
| have. made this communication
quite lengthy, but I want every voter
to know that he, can vote in the ap-
preaching election for the candidate
or candidates of his choice, no matter
to which party they may belong, just
as he has done in past elections, aid
this too, without any difficulty what
ever. ~
As heretofore stated, all voters who
desire to vote a straight party tickle
will have nothing to do in order to do
so, but to go to the election officers, get
the tickets making UP the straight bal
lot. and mark them with a cross mark
(thus X in the circle at the top of the
ballots, and deposit them in the boxes.
And all voters who desire to scratch
the name of any candidate on either
ticket and write in the name or names
of opposing candidates, will have the
right to do so. But all voters VINO
vote such scratched n mixed tickets
must pear in mind that it is necessary,
according to the decision of the Attor-
ney Generals office, to make a cross
mark Chus X in the square immedi-
ately in front of the name of each~can
didate on the ticket.
l trust that what I have said herein
will be helpful to all voters in the
county, as the time is here when every
qualified voter should have the right to
cast a free and untrammeled ballot for
the candidate or candidates of his
choice. and have that ballot counted
as cast.
w. F. EDWARDS, Chairman
of County Board Of Elections.