Year: 1867

person refusing to be sworn or to answer any
pertinent questions affecting the right and quali-
feations Of any other person to vote, when law
fully required by said Board of Judges. shall he
deemed guilty OF misdemeanor. Act March
81, 1856, z5.


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
list of all persons who shall have actually
voted at such election on which list shall be set
down the name of all voters successiyely 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 a column direct
ly opposite and to the right of each name the
proper number prehxed to such name as it stands
enrolled the poll list. This list shall be
known as the '' List Of Voters" and shall be at
tached to the duplicate poll list with the tallies
and other papers constituting and known in law
as the g Election Returns" to be returned to the
Comfy Clerk of the county in which the election
is held, as now provided by law proyided. 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. 1866
&C.


l55. If the vote of any person be challenged
on the ground that he has been convicted of an
infamous crime dsfranchsed bv anv Court
of competent jurisdiction, he shall not be reuuir-
ed to answer any questions respecting such al
legged conviction and in the absence of any au-
thenticated record of such facts, it may be COM
petent for two disinterested witnesses upon oath
to prove the same. Act March %, 1850, S3l
p. l0l.


1856. When the polls arc closed, proclamation
thereof shall be made at the place Of voting. and
no votes shall be afterwards received [Same
Act, $32.


COUNTING. cASvAssSC DECLARING TIE RESULT MAKING


RETURNS, AND GIVING CERTIFICATES ELECTION.


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 shall the ballot box be
removed from the room in which any election
may be held until all the ballots are 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 or 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 tallcs as
they are read aloud by the Inspector or Judge.
The counting of the votes shall be continued
without adjournment until all are counted. Act
March 3d. 1850, p. l0l, z33


l5S. 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 can determine to their satisfac
tiOn the person voted for and the Office intended
Same Act, S34


l59. As soon all the votes are read off and
counted a certificate shall be drawn up each
of the papers containing the poll list and tallies
or attached thereto, stating the number of votes
each person voted for has received, and desgna-
ting the office to fill which he was voted for
which number shall be written in words at fun
length. Each certificate shall be signed by the
Clerk, the Judges and Inspector. One of said
certificates, with the pol! list and tally paper to
which it is attached, shall be detained by the
Inspector, and preserved by him at least six
months. The balo; shall be strung upon a 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
tifcates, with the poll list and tally paper to
which it is attached shall he sealed mp by the
Inspector in the presence of the Judges and
Clerks and indorsed % Election Returns and be
directed and delivered 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



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 J
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 90 lS63,s5, p. 353.


100 The said package shall be delivered to the
County Clerk by one of the Judges or Clerks of
no bv 10
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 (namng him, 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 mall it shall be mailed by one OF the
Judges. and the Postmaster shall make on 1t an
Endorsement that he received it from one of
the Judges, (naming him. Act of March Is,
1850, ESQ


lei 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 rot
being strictly in accordance with the directions
of this Act if the same can be satisfactorily un-
derstood. Same Act, S37.


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 Tor
and against each proposition voted upon AT sucn
election, and declare the result thereof. Inc
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 tor ana
against each of such propositions the nnmoer
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 IS, 1861, Il, P. 329. ]
PENALTIES FOE MISCONDUCT AFFECTING THE fRLLDoA AND e


Irr ELECTIONS.


1884, If any person shall, directly or indirect
". use auv threats, menace or force, or any cor
rupt means or device, at or previous to any cleo
ton held pursuant to this Act, towards any cleo