The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-08-17

ment, designation, mutilation, symbol
or mark of any kind whatsoever, ex-
cept the name or names of the per-
son or persons voted for and the Of
flee to which such person or per-
sons are intended to be chosen, and
all special questions, which name or
names, office or Offices, question or
questions, shall be written or printed
or partly written or partly printed
Except that special question or ques-
tions shall be printed) thereon IN
black ink; and such ballot shall be
so folded so as to conceal the name
or names, question or questions,
thereon, and so folded, shall be de-
posted in a box to be constructed,
kept and disposed of as provicfd by
law, and no ballot of any other de-
scriptioiA found in either Of said
boxes shall be counted. The COM
missioners of election shall provide
for each voting place sufficient
number of boxes to meet the re-
quirements of the election. An open
irg shall be made in the lid of each
box not larger than sufficient for a
single ballot to be inserted therein
at one time, through which each bal
lot received proper to be placed in
such box shall be inserted by the per-
son voting, and by no other. Each
box shall be provided with sufficient
lock, and shall be publicly opened
and inspected, to show that it is
empty and secure, and locked just
before the opening Of the poll. The
key shall be returned to the man.
ayers, and the box shall not b, open
ed during the election. Each box
shall be labeled in plain and distinct
Roman letters, with the office or Of
ficers, question or questions, voted
for, and the managers, on the demand
of the voter, shall be required to read
to him the names or questions on the
boxes. At each precinct a space or
enclosure, such as the managers of
election shall deem fit and sufficient,
shall be rallied off or otherwise pro-
vided with an opening at one end or
side for the entrance of the voter,
and an opening at the other for his
exit, as a voting place IN which to
hold the election, and the ballot box
shall be so located as to be in view
of persons outside Of the polling
place during the time of voting. But
one voter shall be allowed to enter
any voting place at time, and no
one except the managers shall be al
lowed to speak to the voter while in
the voting place casting his vote.
At the close of the election the
managers and clerk shall Immediately
proceed publicly to open the ballot
box and count the ballots therein,
and continue such count, without
adjouornment or interruption, until
the same is completed, and make
such statement of the result thereof,
and sign the same, as the nature of
the election shall require. No bal
lot shall be counted upon which there
shall appear the name of an office or
the name of a person in connection
with an office other than that for
which the box in which such ballot
is found shall be designated and
labeled. If, in counting, two or more
like ballots shall be found folded to-
gether compactly, only one shall be
counted; the other must be Destroy
ed; but if they bear different names,
all must be destroyed and none
counted. If more ballots shall be
found on opening the box than there
are names on the poll list, al the
ballots shall be returned to the boz
and thoroughly mixed together, and
one Of the managers, or the clerk,
shall, without seeing the ballots, draw
therefrom and Immediately destroy
as many ballots as there are in ex-
cess of the number of names on the
poll list. Within three days there
after the chairman of the board Of
managers, or one Of them, to be
designated in writing by the board,
shall deliver to the commissioners of
election the poll list, the boxes con-
tanning the ballots and written
statement of the result of the elec-:
tion in his precinct.
The following managers of election
have been appointed to hold the cleo
tion at the various precincts in the
county, to wit:
Managers of Election.
Court Housed. B. Werts, S. S.
Cunningham, John Swittenberg.
Newberry Cotton Mill. T. Tim
norman, Charley Layton, George
Carter.
Mollohon MILD. q. Darby, Oscar
Burton, I. T. Zimmerman.
Oakland Mills. Il. Zimmerman,
w. H. Settler, Thomas Lyles.
Helena-F. R. Spearman, =. j.
Zobel, D. C. Spearmal.
Mt. Bethel. a. Brown, G. S.
Ruff, Grover Davenport.
Silverstreet-J. M. Alewine, C. E.
Abrams, j. NJ. Nichols.
Longshore-D. F. Sem, C. S. Cle-
land, A. R. Dorroh.
Williams Store-J. S. Werts, NJ. O.
Boozer, Willie Johnson.
Chappells-J. S. Dominick, W. NJ.
Cromley, ]. ]. Murran.
Utopia-H. L. Boulware, E. O.
Lake, W. R. Schumpert.
Garmany-B. M. Buzhardt, T. W.
Folk, E. S. Boozer.
Maybinton-T. E. Eison, F. B.