Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-10-23
NOTICE OF ELECTION
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF EDGEFIELD.

Notice is hereby given that the
General Election for State and Coun-
,ty Officers will be held at the voting
precincts prescribed by law in said
county, on Tuesday, November 5,
1918, said day being Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, as
prescribed by the State Constitution.
The qualification for suffrage:
Managers of election shall require
of every elector offering to vote at
any election, before allowing him to
vote, the production of his registra-
tion certificate and proof of the pay
ment of all taxes, including poll tax,
assessed against him and collectible
during the previous year. The pro-
duction of a certificate or of the re-
.ceipt of the officer authorized to col
lect such taxes, shall be conclusive
proof of the payment thereof.
Section 237, Code of 1912, as
amended by Act No. 6, special session
of 1914.
Section 2S7. There shall be three
separate and distinct ballots, as fol-
lows: One ballot for United States
Senator, Representatives in Congress
and Presidential electors; and one
ballot for Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, State officers, Circuit Solici-
tors, members of the House of Rep
resentative, State Senator, county Of
ficers, and one ballot for all Consti-
tutional amendments and special
questions, each of three said boxes
to be appropriately labelled; which
ballots shall be of plain white paper
and of such width and length as to
contain the names of the officer or
officers and question or questions to
be voted for or upon, clear and even
cut, without ornament, designation,
mutilation, symbol or mark of any
kind whatsoever, except the name
OF names of the person or persons
voted for and the Office to which such
person or persons are intended to be
chosen, and all special questions
which name or names, office or Off
ees, question or questions shall be
written or printed or partly written
or partly printed thereon in black
ink; and such ballot shall be so fold
ed as to conceal the name or names,
question or questions thereon, and
so folded, shall be deposited in a
box to be constructed, kept and dis
posed of as herein provided by law,
and no ballot of any other descrip-
tion found in either of said boxes
shall be counted.
On all special questions the ballot
shall state the question, or questions,
and shall thereafter have the words
eyes" and ''No" inserted so that the
voter may indicate his vote by strik-
ing out one or the other of such
words on said ballot, the word not
80 striken out to be counted.
Before the hour fixed for opening
the polls, Managers and Clerks must
take and subscribe the Constitutional
oath. The Chairman of the Board of
Managers can administer the oath.
Managers can administer the oath
to the other members and to the
Clerk; Notary Public must admin
ister the oath to the Chairman. The
managers elect their Chairman and
Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
opened at o'clock a. m. and closed
at o'clock p. m, except in the City
of Charleston, where they shall be
opened at am. and closed at p, m.
The Managers have the power to
fill vacancy, and if none of the
Managers attend, the citizens can ap-
point from among the qualified. vo-
ters, the Managers, who, after being
sworn, can conduct the election.
At the close of the election, the
Managers and Clerk must proceed
publicly to open the ballot boxes and
count the ballots therein, and contin-
ue without adjournment until the
same is completed, and make state
ment of the result for each office
and sign the same. Within three days
thereafter, the Chairman of the
Board, or someone designated by the
Board, must deliver to the Conmis-
sioners of Election the poll list, the
boxes containing the ballots and
written statements of the results of
the election.
At the said election qualified cleo
tors will vote upon the adoption or
rejection of amendments to the State
Conc+ifrHion nc nrovided in the fol-