The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-06-21

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pal officers, the voting shall be
by secret official ballots printed
and distributed as hereinafter pro-
vided, and no ballot shall be re-
ceived or counted in any election
to which this act applies, except
it be provided as herein pre-
scribed.
Section 70. The Board of
Election Commissioners of said
city shall cause to be printed on
1.-THE ballot to be used at such cleo
tions the names of all candidates
who have been put in nomination
by any caucus, convention, mass
meeting, primary election or other
assembly of any political party
or fraction in said city, and GER
titled and filed with them not less
than twenty days previous to the
/. day of election, which certificates
shall contain the name of each
person nominated and the office
for which he is nominated, and
shall be signed by the presiding
officer and secretary of such eau
Gus, convention, mass meeting or
other assembly, or by the canvas
sing board of such primary cleo
ton and be duly acknowledged by
one or more of them before an Of
ficer authorized by law to take
acknowledgements. The Board Of
Election Commissioners shall also
cause to be printed upon said bal
lots the name of any qualified
elector who has been requested to
be a candidate for any office by
written petition signed by at least
twenty-five electors qualified to
vote in the election to fill said of
flee when said petition has been
filed with them not less than
twenty days prior to the election.
And in addition to the name
printed upon said ballot, and
whether there be any names
printed on said ballot or not,
there shall be printed under each
office to be voted for at the. cleo
ton blank lines in number equal
to the number of persons who may
be elected to fill that office. The
name of no person shall be print
ed upon the ballot who shall, not
less than twenty days before the
election, notify the Board of Elec-
tion Commissioners in writing,
acknowledged before an officer
authorized by law to take ack-
nowledgements, that he will not
accept the nomination specified in
the certificate of nomination or
request of election; provided
however, that when any person
who has been regularly nominat-
ed and who shall decline to run
for the office to which he has
been nominated, the party by
which such person was nominated
shall be allowed two days after
such declination by such person to
run, in which to substitute another
candidate; provided, further, that
such substitute shall be certified
to the said Election Commissions
ers not less than eighteen days
before such election.
Section rs. Any person who
shall falsely make or fraudulent
ly destroy any certificates of
nomination, or any part thereof,
or file any certificate of nominal
ton, knowing the same, or any
part thereof, to be false, or sup
press any information which has
been duly filed, or any part there
of, shall be guilty of felony, and
on conviction thereof, lshall be
imprisoned in the peniteiitiary for
for no tless than one or for more
than five years.
Section rs. The Board of
Election Commissioners shall cause
to be preserved in their office. or
in some other safe place. all GER
tifieates and petitions of nominal
ton filed under the provisions of
this act for six months after the
election for which such nomina-
tons were made.
The ballots printed in accord
ance with the provisions of this
act shall contain the names of all
candidates nominated as herein
before provided who have not de-
clined. Names nf candidates for
each office shall be arranged al
phabetically by surname. The
names of all candidates for the
same office shall be printed to-
gether irrespective of party. But
the order in which the titles to
the several offices to be filled
shall be arranged upon the ballots
shall be left TO the discretion Of
the Election Commissioners charg-
ed with the printing of said bal
lots.
Section rs. Whenever a public
measure i submitted 10 a vote Of
the people, the substance of such
public measure shall he twice iu
the Same language Indicated upon