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NOTICE OF ELECTION
STATE OR SOUTH CAROLINA,


STATE OR SOUTH CAROLINA, ..
County of Abbeville.
Notice is hereby given that the
General Election for State and
County Officers will be held at the
voting precincts prescribed by law
in said county on Tuesday, Novem-
Der 2, 1920, said day being Tuesday
following the first Monday in No
venber, as prescribed by. the State
Constitution. -
The qualification for suffrage:
Managers of Election shall re-
quire of every elector offering to
vote at any. election, before allow
ing him or her to vote, the produc-
ton of his or her registration, IN
cluding poll tax, assessed against
him or her and collectible during the
previous year. The production OF a
certificate or of She receipt OF the
officer authorized to collect sucn
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. -.''-......>>. j.: -.
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
icitors, members of the. House OF
Represehtatives, State Senator,
county officers; and one ballot for
all constitutional amendments and
special questions, each Of three said
boxes to be- appropriately labelled I;
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 orna--.
ment, designation, mutilation, SYM
boil or mark of any kind whatsoever,
except the name or names Of the
percson 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 offices, question
or questions shall be written or!
printed or partly written or partly
printed theeon in black ink and such
ballot shall be so folded as to CON
ceal the name or names, question or,
questions thereon, and so,, folded,
shall be deposited in a box TO- be
constructed, kept and disposed of as
herein provided by law; and no bal
lot sof any other description found
in telther of said boxes shall be
counted y, y ~.
4 On all special questions the; bal
lot shall state the question or ques-
tions, and shall thereafter have the
words eyes" and ''No" inserted so
that the voter may indicate his OF
her vote by striking out one or the:
other of such words on said ballot,
the word not SO stricken out to be
counted. *
y Before the hour fixed for opening.
the polls, Managers and Clerks
must take and subscribe the Const-
;tutional oath. 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 Chair
man. The Managers elect their
Chairman AID Clerk a.,
!. Polls at each voting place must
be. opened at 7o'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
fiji q vacancy, and II 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