The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1922-10-25
NOTICE OF ELECTION.


eeral Election for, State. and County Of
fcers will be, held at the voting pre-
.cincts prescribed by law in said coun-
ty. on Tuesday, November Z. 1922.
said day being Tuesday following the
first Monday in November. as pre-
scribed by the State Constitution.
The qualification. for suffrage:
Managers of election require of
every 'elector Offering to vote at any
election. before allowing him to vote.
the production of his registration GER
tifacate and proof Of the payment of
all taxes. including poll tax, assessed
against hi mand collectible during the
previous year. The production Of a
officer authorized to collect such
taxes. shall he conclusive proof Of the
payment thereof.
Section 237, Code of 1912 as
amended by Act No. 6. special session
OF 1914.
=. Section 237. There shall be three
separate and distinct ballots, as fol-
lows: One ballot for Representatives
in Congress. and one ballot for Gov
,ernor. Lieutenant Governor, State Of
Ulcers. Circuit Solicit tors. members of
the House OF Representatives. State
Senator. county officers, and one bal
, lot for all Constitutional amendments
and special questions, each OF three
said boxes to be appropriately label
led; 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 ornament,
designation. mutilation, 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 person or persons are in
tended to be chosen, and all special
questions which name or names, Of
flee 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
folded as to conceal the name or
names. question or questions thereon,
and so folded. shall be deposited in n
box to be constructed, kept and dis
posed OF as herein provided by law,
and no ballot Of any other description
found in either of said boxes shall be
accounted.
On all special questions the ballot
shall state the question or questions.
and shall thereafter have the words
Eyes" and mo" inserted so that the
Nvoter may indicate his vote by strik-
Ing ont one or the ether of such words
,on said ballot, the word not so stricli-
@n out to be counted.
Before the hour fixed for opening
the polls. Managers and Clerks must
take and subscribe the Constitutional
oath. The Chairman of the Board of
Managers can administer the oath to
the other members and to the Clerk;
IA Notary Public must administer the
oath to the Chairman. The Manag-
ers elect their Chairman and Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
opened at O'Clock a. m. and closed
at p. m. except in the City Of Char
lesion, where they shall be opened at
Z a. m. and closed at q p. M.
The Managers have the power to
fill a vacancy. and ii none of the
Managers attend. the citizens can ap-
point from among the qualified voters,
the Managers. who. after being sworn,
ran 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 con-.
tinue without. adjournment until the
same .is completed. and make a state
nlent OF the result for each Office and
Sign the same. Within three days
thereafter. the Chairman Of the
Board. or some one designated by the
Board. must deliver to the Commits
sioners Of Election the poll list. the
boxes containing the ballots and writ
ten statements of the results Of the
election.
Al the said election qualified cleo
tors VIII vote upon the adoption or
rejection of amendments to the State
Constitution. as provided in thel fol-
lowing Joint Resolutions:
A Joint Resolution to Amend Arti-
Gle Y nf the Constitution to