The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-10-29
NOTICE OF ELECTION
State of South Carolina,

State OF SOutn CafOlillt,
County of Newberry.
Notice is hereby given that the
General Election for State and
County Officers will he held at the
voting precincts prescribed by law
in said county on Tuesday, Novem-
Der 2, 1920, said day being Tues
day following 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 or
her to vote, the production of his
or her registration certificate and
proof of the payment of all taxes, IN
cluding poll tax, assessed against him
or her and collectible during the pre-
vious year. The production of GER
tifcate or of the receipt of the officer
authorized to collect such taxes 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, Representatives in Con-
gress and Presidential electors; and
one ballot for Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, State officers, Circuit So
iicitors, members of the House of
Representatives State Senator, coun-
ty officers; and one ballot for all
Constitutional amendments and spe-
cial 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 Off
Ger or officers and question or ques-
tions to be voted for or upon, clear
and even cut, without ornament, des-
ignation, mutilation, symbol or mark
of any kind whatsoever, except the
name or names Of the person or per-
sons voted for and the office to which
such person or persons are intended
to be chosen, and all special ques-
tions 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 so fold
ed as to conceal the name or names,
question or questions thereon, and,
so folded, shall be deposited III 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
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 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 Constitutional
cath. The Chairman of the Board Of
Managers can administer the oath to
the other members and to the Clerk !;
a Notary Public must administer the
oath to the Chairman. The Managers
elect their Chairman and Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
opened at 7 o'clock a. m. and closed
at o'clock p. m., except in the city
of Charleston, where they shall be
opened at a. m. and closed at 6
p. m.
The Managers have the power to
fll 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 ard Clerk must proceed
publicly to open the ballot boxes and
count the ballots therein, and con-