The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-27
EIGHT MEASURES.
 ARE INTRODUCED AND TWO PASSED.
Boyle Author of Measure for Rotative Ballot
 System in Alaska

Eight new measures made their appearance in the Legislature, six in the House and two in the up- per Chamber. The House passed one memorial and a Senate bill, and the Senate passed one of its own measures which now goes to the House for action.
 Included in the bills introduced in the House was one by Represen- tative Boyle providing for rota- tive ballot system in Alaska elec- tions by an amendment to Chapter 25, Session laws of 1915 relative to the form of official ballots.
 Method of Rotation
 The measure provides that the names of the candidates shall be placed on the ballots lin such man. ner as to successfully rotate, with each 100 ballots, the surnames of candidates so that each candidate's s name, with each 100 ballots, shall be moved one line upwards to- wards the top of the list of names of candidates for that particular office for which he is candi- date"
 The Clerks of Court would be re- quired to forward the ballots to the several precincts, at least 100 for every 50 voters in each, so that the supply for each would consist as nearly as possible, 'of an equal number of each of the several series of ballots in the successive rotations.
 Judges of election would be re- quired in giving the ballots to the voters, not to give ballots of the same rotating series to two or more consecutive voters, alternating the series as each ballot is issued to the voters.
 Literacy Qualification
 An amendment as to the chal- lenging of voters is included which protects the Federal act on literacy and reads as follows:
 Any person who can qualify as legal voter in the precinct in which he or she attempts or of fcrs to vote, may quslify and vote, if such persons vote be challenged, by subscribing to the qualifications required for registration in this Act; but that any person, whose vote is challenged upon the ground that he or she is not qualified to vote under the provisions Q Sec tion 2, of the Act of Congress of March 2, l9z7. shall not be per- mitted to voIc unless he O. she snall, in addition to complying with the pro- sens of this A. ms ke and ,.lb,oribe a writ T af- fidavit, which s:lfll be f'!n1 with the election heard. stating afr matively that he or she legally voted at the general election of November 4, 1924, and giving the name of the place which his or her vote was cast at that election.
 Any person who makes false statement of his or her qualifi- cations to vote, shall be punished upon conviction, by fine of not less than $25, nor more than S200, or by imprisonment in the Federal jail for not less than 10 days, nor more than 60 days. or by both such fine and imprisonment"
 To Encourage Publicity
 To give semi-official recognition to the All Alaska Review, published annually by. Harry G. Steel, Cor dova, is the aim of a measure in- troduced in the House today by MT. McCutcheon, Anchorage mem Der. It provides for the purchase of 12,000 copies of the next two years issues and appropriates S6,- 900 for that purpose. The publica- tion would be made part of Ter ritorial publicity and distributed by the Governors office. Copies would also be furnished by that office to Chambers of Commerce of the re- spective communities for publicity campaigns.
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