The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1920-10-20
Notice Of Election

state or South Carolina, County of
u Lexington. ~ : &, 81
Notice is hereby given that the
General Electlontfor state and County
Officers VIII be held at the voting pre-
cinctsfs prescribed by law In said
county on Tuesday, November g. 1920.
said day being Tuesday following the
( first Monday in November, as pre-
scribed by the State Constitution
The. qualification for suffrage: Sss
2s managers OF Election shall require
OF every selector offering to vote at
any election, before allowing him or.
her to vote, the production of his or
her registration certificate and proof
OF the payment of all taxes, including
poll tax. assessed against him or her
and conectible during the previous
year. The production OF % certificate
or Of the receipt Of the officer author
lied to collect such taxees shall be
conclusive proof of the payment
thereof. f,aA
Section 2s7, Code OF 1912, IS
amended by Act No. 8. special session
Of 1914.
Section 237. There she., be three
separate and distinct ballots, as fol-
lows: One ballot for United States
Senator, Representatives in Congress
and Presidentialele electors; and one bal
lot for Governor. Lieutenant Cover
nor, State officers, Circuit Solicitors,
members OF the House Of Representa-
5tives, State Senator, county officers;
and one ballot for all Constitutional
amendments and special questions,
each Of three said boxes to be appro-
priately 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 whatso-
ever, except the name or names of
the person or persons voted for and
4 the office to which such person or
persons are intended to be chosen.
and ALI special questions which name
or names, office or offices, question
or questions shall be written or printed
or partly written or partly printed
thereon in black ink; and such ballot
shall be folded 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 herein pro-
yided by law, and no ballot of any
other description 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 Sthe words
Yes" and mo- inserted 80 that the
voter may indicate his or her vote by
striking out one or the other OF such
words on said ballot, the word not 81
stricken 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 Oh
+ Managers can administer the oath to
the other members and to the Clerk;
a Notary Public must administer the
oath to the Chairman. The Mana
gers elect their Chairman and Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
opened at Z o'clock q. m, and closed
at o'clock p. M, except in the city
of Charleston, whore they shall be
opened at a. m. and closed at 6 D. m
The Managers have the power to I'll
vacancy, and IL none of the Mana
gers attend, the citizens can appoint
from among the qualified voters the