Year: 1867

and quali6cations to vote rs Aforesaid; aad any,
nerson refusing to be sworn or to answer any
pertinent questions affecting the right and ouali-
6cations Of any other person to vote. when law
fully required BY said Board of Judges, shall be
deemed guilty Of misdemeanor fAct March
81, 1866, g. ss ot 1f17sG +f5a.f~


l54 At every election, and at each precinct.
the Board of Judges of Elections shall cause to
be kept separately and distinct from the poll list
a HIST of all persons who shall have actually
voted at such election, on which list shall be set
down the name of all voters successfully as soon
as they shall have been admitted TO vote and
their ballots have been received, the names be-
ing numbered with successive numbers placed
at the left hand, and placing in column direct
" opposite and to the right of each name the
proper number prefxed to such name as it stands
enrolled on the poll list. This list shall be
known as the +" List of Voters" and shall be at
tacbed to the duplicate poll list with the talies
and other papers constituting and known in law
as the :: Election Returns" to be returned to the
County Clerk of the county in which the election
is held, as now provided by law; provided, that
the State Board of Registry shall have power to
dispense with this list, if in the judgment of
said Board it should be found unnecessary and
inconvenient in practice. Act March 81, 1906,
60


1855 If the vote of any person be challenged
on the ground that he has been convicted Of an
Infamous crime, or disffanchsed by any Court
of competent jurisdiction, be shall not be requir-
ed to answer any questions respecting such al
legged conviction and in the absence of any au-
thenticated record of such facts, 1t may be COM
petent for two disinterested witnesses upon oath
to prove the same. Act March %, 1850, s3l,
p. l0l.


I56. When the polls are closed, proclamation
thereof shall be made at the place of voting and
no votes shall be afterwards received. [Same
Act, 2321
OF oouSTIxG cANvAssISG, RESULT MAKING


RETURNS, AsD GIVING CERTIFICATES KlEcrros.


l57. AS soon the polls are closed on the af-
ternoon of the day of election, the Judges shall
open the ballot box and commence counting the
votes and in no case shall the ballot box be
removed from the room in which any election
may be held until all the ballots arc counted ;;
the counting of ballots shall in all cases be pub
lie. The ballots shall be taken out carefully, one
by one, by the Inspector one of the Judges,
who shall open them, and read aloud the name
of each person contained therein, and the Office
for which every such person is voted for. Each
Clerk shall write down each Office to be filled, and
the name of each person voted for for such Office,
and shall keep the number of votes by talies, as
they read aloud by the Inspector Judge.
The counting of the votes shall be continued
March 23 1850, p. l0l, S33.


1853. If two tickets are found folded together
they shall both be rejected and if more persons
are designated on any ticket for any Office than
to be elected for such office, such part of the
ticket shall not be counted for any of them but
no ticket shall be lost for want of form, if the
Board of Judges determine to their satisfac-
tion the person voted for and the Office intended.
| [Same Act ga


| l59. As soon as all the votes are read off and
counted, certificate shall be drawn up on each
of the papers containing the poll list and talles,
or attached thereto, stating the number of votes
each person voted for has received, and designa-
ting the Office to fill which he was voted for,
which number shall be written in words at full
length. Each certificate shall be signed by the
! Clerk, the Judges and Inspector. One of said
certificates with the poll list, and tally paper to
which it is attached, shall be detained by the
Inspector, and preserved by him at least six
months. The ballot shall be strung upon cord
or thread by the Inspector during the counting
of the ballots. in the order in which they are
entered upon the tally list by the Clerks and
said ballots, together with the other of said GER
! tifcatcs, with the poll list and tally paper to
which it is attached, shall he sealed up by the
| Inspector in the presence of the Judges and
Clerks and indorsed u Election Returns and be
directed and delivered or sent by the Inspector
to the County Clerk of the county in which the
election is held, and the said ballots shall be
kept for at least six months by said Clerk and
if any person be of opinion that the vote OF any
precinct shall not have been correctly counted
he may appear on the day appointed for the
Board of Supervisors to open the returns, and
demand recount of the vote of said precinct
and the Board of Supervisors shall proceed to
recount the vote of the precinct that is SO claim
ed to have been incorrectly counted. Amend
ment, April 20, ls63,S5, p. 353.1 tr


l60. The said package shall be delivered to the
County Clerk by one of the Judges or Clerks Of
Election IN person, or may be sent by private
hand or by mail. If sent by private hand, the
person delivering it shall, before the County
Clerk, take and subscribe affidavit that the
package was delivered to him by one of the
Judges (naming him y that it has not been out
of his possession since it was received, and has
undergone no alteration while in his possession
The affidavit shall be indorsed on the package
If sent by mail, it shall be mailed by one of the
Judges, and the Postmaster shall make on it an
Endorsement that he received it from o.
the Judges, (naming him. [Act of March %
1850, ss6.


lsl. No tally paper, poll list or certificate, re-
turned from any election, shall be set aside or
rejected for want of form, nor on account of moi
being strictly in accordance with the directions
of this Act, if the same can be satisfactorily un
derstood. Same Act, 1911


l62. The Board of Supervisors of each county
shall meet at their usual place of meeting on the
first Monday after each election to canvass the
election returns, and if the returns from each
precinct of the county or township where polls
were opened at such election shall not have been
received by the county Clerk at that time, then
said Board shall adjourn from time to time until
said returns shall be received, but not beyond
the second Monday after such election, and the
said Board shall then proceed, in public, to open
the returns and estimate the vote of such county
or township for each person voted for and fol
and against each proposition voted upon at such
election, and declare the result thereof. The
clerk Of said Board shall at such meeting, enter
on the records Of such Board a statement of the
result of such election, containing the names OF
the persons voted for and the propositions voted
upon; the Office to fill which each person was
voted for the number of votes given at each
precinct to each of such persons, and for and
against each of such propositions !; the number
of votes given in the county to each of such per.
sons, and for and against each of such PROPOSE.
tions, and the whole number Of votes cast in said
county. amendment, May ls, 1861, Il, p. 529. ]
! EIEcrI0xs.


1874. If any person shall, directly or indirect
ly, use any threats menace, or force, or any cor
rupt means or device, at or previous to any elec.
ton held pursuant to this Act, towards any eIec.
| for to hinder or deter him from voting at an oh