The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-30
LEGAL ApyERTlsING

credited 70 eacn cAuoioeW, H1S number thereby found exhausted, the total for each candidate, the total found exhausted, and the to- tai number of valid ballots found by adding the totals of all candidates and the total found exhausted. A the conclusion of the board of ed- ucation count, the director of count shall file with the city clerk the of- flcial result sheets of the election, signed by him and certified to be such, together with certificates d!- rected to the successful candidates, advising them that they have been elected. The city clerk shall forth- with transmit such certificates to the elected candidates. (13) If at any time after the first sorting ot the ballots, a ballot shall De found | to have been misplaced, 1t may be transferred as part of the transfer that is in progress, to that one or the continuing candidates for whom it should have been counting at the time the error was discovered, or, If no clear choice among those candi- dates be indicated on 1t, shall be set aside as exhausted; provided, if the number of misplaced ballots found shall indicate that the lists of co1a- tinuing candidates may be incorrect, so much of the sorting and trans ferring as may be required to cor- rect the error shall be done again before the count shall proceed. QD Each ballot that is transferred from one candidate to another shall be stamped or marked so that its en- tire course from candidate to candi- date can be conveniently traced. (15) If, in correcting an error any ballots are re-sorted or re-trans- ferred, each ballot shall be made to take the same course that 1t took In the original count unless the correc- tion of an error shall require it's taking a different course. These principles shall apply also to any recount, except in connection with the filling of vacancy. (l6) The council shall have power, by ordi- nance, to specify the type of ballot boxes which shall be used, to pro- vide for the use of mechanical or other devices for marking and sort ing the ballots and for tabulating the results, and to modify the form of the ballot, the directions to the voters, and the detailS in respect to the method of counting and trans ferring ballots accordingly; saving unchanged always the principles of the voting and counting as in this charter provided.
 Sec. 235. Supervision. Each regu- larly nominated candidate shall have the right to be present during the entire count, with facilities for examining all operations closely and for keeping all the ballots or their containers in view when the count ing is not in progress. He shall have the right to designate to the direc- tor of the count, in writing, an ale ternate to act in his place when he may be absent. Representatives of the press and, so far as may be consistent with good order and with convenience in counting, the gen. eral public shall also be given every facility for witnessing the count.
 Sec. 236. Appeals. The decisions of the director of the count shall be final unless appealed from to the courts.
 Sec. 237. Preservation of Ballots. The ballots cast at each election of the council and board of education shall be preserved by the city clerk until the term of the members elec- ted thereby has expired. The ballots credited to each successful candi- date at the end of the election shall be kept separate from the rest as the ballots which elected him. The ballots shall be available for exam nation under the supervision of the city clerk on written application, signed by two hundred qualified electors and the payment to the election authorities of one hundred dollars, to be paid into the general fund of the city. Such application shall name not more than three rep- resentatives of the signers to make such examination.
 Sec. 238. Vacancies in the Council and Board of Education. If & seat in the council or board of education shall become vacant, 1t shall be filled for the remainder of the un- expired term by 8 public recount of the ballots by which 1t was filled at the municipal election at which the council or board was chosen. This recount shall be conducted under the supervision of the director of the count according to the follow ing rules: d) All choices marked for members of the council or board, as the case may be, in office or for candidates who have become inelig- ible or have expressed to the city clerk in writing their desire to with draw shall be disregarded. (2) The ballots shall be sorted each to the first of the choices marked on 1t for any of the eligible candidates. (3) If any candidate shall have to his credit more than one-haR of the ballots which show any preference among these candidates, he shall be declared elected to the vacant place. (O If no candidat shall have to his credit more than one-haN of the ballots which show such prefer ence, each candidate who has no ballots to his credit shall be de- clared defeated. (5) Thereupon the remaining candidate lowest on the poll shall be declared defeated and all his ballots transferred, each to the candidate indicated on it as next choice among the undefeated candidates. (6) Thus lowest candi- dates shall be declared de1eated one after another and all their ballots transferred until some candidate shall be credited with more ballots than all the other undefeated can- didates together. CD As soon as ons candidate has been credited with more ballots than all the other un. defeated candidates together hf shall be declared elected to the va. cant place. (8) Except as heYeh otherwise provided and except tha I the rules for assembling an, checking the ballots and those re
 garding the quota may be disre