Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-10-27
NOTICE OF ELECTION
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF EDGEFIELD

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLlNA
COUNTY OF EDGEFIELD
Notice is hereby given that the
General Election for State anG
County Officers will be held at tbs
voting precincts prescribed by law III
said county on Tuesday, November
2, 1920, said day being Tuesday fol
lowing the first Monday in Novem-
Der, as prescribed by the State Consti-
tuition.
The qualification for suffrage:
Managers of Election shall re-
quire of every elector 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 collectible during the
previous year. The production of a
certificate or of the receipt of the
officer authorized to collect such tax
es shall be conclusive proof of the
payment thereof.
Section 237, Code of 1912, as
amended by Act No. 6, special ses-
sion of 1914.
Section 237. There shall be three
separate and distinct ballots, as fol-
lows: One ballot for United States
Senator, Representative in Congress
and Presidential. electors; and one
ballot for Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, State Officers, Circuit Solici-
tors, members of the House of Re-
representatives., State Senator, county
officers; 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, with ornament, designation, mu-
tilation, symbol or mark of any kind
whatsoever, except the name or
names of the person or persons voted
for and the office to which such per-
son or persons are intended to be
chosen, and all special questions
which name or names, office or Off
ces, question or questions shall be
written or printed or partly written
or printed thereon in black ink; and
such ballot shall be so folded as to
conceal the name or names, ques-
ton or questions thereon, and, so
folded, shall be deposited in box
to be constructed, kept and disposed
of as herein provided by law, and no
ballot of any other description found
in either Of said boxes shall be count
ed. ri. --
On all special questions the ballot
shall state the question or questions
and shall thereafter have the words
ayes" and "No" inserted, so 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 so stricken out to be counted.
Before the hour fixed for opening
the polls, Managers and Clerks must
take and subscribe the Constitution
al oath. The Chairman of the Board
of Managers can administer the oath
to the other members and to the
Clerk; Notary Public must admin
lister the oath to the Chairman. The
Managers elect their Chairman and
Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
opened at z o'clock a. m. and closed
at o'clock p. M, except in the city
of Charleston, where they shall be
opened at Z a. m. and closed at 6
p. m.
The Managers have the power to
fill vacancy, and if none of the
Managers attend, the citizens can
appoint from among the qualified
voters the Managers, who, after be-
ing 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 ccntin-
ue without adjournment until the
same is-completed, and make state
mert of the result for each office
and sign The name. Within three
days thereafter the Chairman of the
Board, or some one designated by