Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-10-20
NOTICE OF ELECTION
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
C0I1MTY on EncEEIEIn

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, 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-
uuire 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 2&, Code of 1912, as
amended by let 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 Congress
and Presidential electors; ;apA ana one
ballot for Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, State Officers, Circuit solici-
tors, members of the House of Re
presentatives, State Senator, county
officers; and one ballot for all Consti-
tutional amendments and special
questions, each of three said boxes
10 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-
tion '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.
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 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 a 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 contin-
-ue without adjournment until the
same is completed, and make state
gment of the result for each Office
and sign the name. Within three
days thereafter the Chairman of the
Board, or some one designated by