The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-01-09
Who Can Vote Saturday?

All sections below are from new
compiled laws.
Sec. SOP. Qualifications of voters.
Every person over the age of 2l
who is citizen of the United States
and shall have resided in this state
SIX months Immediately preceding
the election, and IN the county 80
days, and is resident of the Kend-
rick Highway District, shall; be en-
TITLED to vote. OF course each voter
will have to vote in the voting
precinct IN which he resides. Own
ing property within the district
does not entitle any one to vote
unless such person actually resides
within the district. A person is not
required to be property owner.
Sec. 583. Opening and closing polls.
Upon opening the polls at 800 a.
m. one of the clerks, under the
direction of the judges, must make
proclamation of the same; and 80
minutes before closing the polls,
proclamation must be made in like
manner, and the polls closed in half
an hour thereafter. The polls con-
tinue open from 800 a. m. until
700 p. m.
Sec. 1856. Opening ballot boxes.
Before receiving any ballots the
judge must, in the presence OF any
persons assembled at the polling
place, open and exhibit, close and
lock, the ballot boxes, and there
, after they must not be removed
J from the polling place until all the
, ballots are counted, nor must they
be opened until after the polls are
finally closed, and then in the pres
ence of the bystandrrs.
, Sec. 589. Judges may administer
: oaths.
t Either judge may administer ant
, certify any oath required to be ad
. ministered during the progress o
: the election, and either may chal
e lenge voter of whose qualification
r to vote he is in doubt. but in sue
case one of the remaining judge
must administer the oath.
Sec. 591. Delivery of ticket to
eIector.
i An elector desiring to vote shal
= give his name and, if reqested to d
so, his residence, to one OF Tn
e clerks, who shall thereupon al
nounce the same in loud and di
;, tinct tone of voice. clear and au(
. . ible. The distributing clerk sha
=, give him one, and only one ticke
n The ticket must be stamped on tt
back and near the top of the tlck'
> with the official stamp by the di
tributing clerk. Besides the ele
tion officers, not more than or
voter, in excess of the votir
shelves or compartments provide
IS shall he allowed in said inclost
m space at one time.
1e Remember, it is not necessa
for person to have been registe
la eO.
Sec. 593. Spoiled ballots.
n No person shall take or reno
ne any ticket from the polling pla
!. before the close of the polls. II
H. elector inadvertently or by mista
Ir. spoils ticket. he shall return
nna folded to the distributing cler
ne ne who must, if satisfied Of such
n advertence, give him another tit
ne ct. The ticket thus returned sha
zee without examination, be immedia
ly cancelled by writing across
ng back, or outside of the ticket
Ter folded, the words "spoiled tick
another issued,' and deposit
defaced ticket in box provided
that purpose.
ist Sec. 594. Deposit of ballots in b.
The judges to whom any bal
may be delivered shall, upon
err receipt thereof, pronounce in
os- audible voice the name Of the el
re re- tor, and if no objection shall
ard made to him, and the judges are {
isfied that he is a legal voter, |
- the official stamp is plainly visi
in on the outside of the folded bal
ton he shall, without opening or ex'
of ining, immediately deposit the
non lot in the ballot box, and the Gle
;ars shall enter the name of the elet
pay in the poll books.
une Sec. 595. No judge of elect