Year: 1869

or attached thereto, StaLinS lhe uuinper oI 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 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
tfcates, with the poll list and tally paper to
which it is attached, shall be sealed up by the
| Inspector in the presence of the Judges and
! Clerks and indorsed 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 claim
ed to have, been incorrectly counted. Amend
ment, April 20, 1863, Is, p. 353.


l60. The said package shall be delivered to the
County Clerk by one of the Judges or Clerks of
Election 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 an affidavit that the
package was delivered to him by one of the
Judges manning 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 it an
Endorsement that he received it from one of
the Judges, (naming him. Act of March %,
1850, zS6.1


16l. No tally paper, poll list or certificate, re-
turned from any election, shall be set aside or
rejected for want of form, on account Of not
being strictly in accordance with the directions
of this Act. if the same can be satisfactorily uu-
derstood. [Sime 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 for
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 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
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 l8, 1861, Il, p. 529. ]
PURITY


ELECTIONS.


ls4 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 cleo
ton held pursuant to this Act, towards any cleo
tor, to hinder or deter him from voting at such
election, or shall attempt by any means wbatev-
er to awe, restrain, hinder. disturb any cleo
tor in the free exercise of the right and suffrage
he shall npon conviction thereof be fined in any
sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. Act
March %, 1885, l9S.


lS5. If any person shall furnish any elector
wishing to vote at any election held pursuant to
the provisions of this Act, who cannot read with
a ticket such person informing or giving such
elcctor to understand that it contains a name or
names written printed thereon different from
the name names which are written or printed
thereon such person shall upon conviction there
of be fined in any sim not less than fifty nor
more than FIVE hundred dollars. Same Act, zoe.


ls6. If any person shall defraud any elector at
any such election by deceiving him and causing
hm to vote for different person for any office
that such elector desired intended to vote for,
or shall fraudulently attempt to deceive, and
cause such elector thus to vote for q different
person for any office than he intended and desir-
ed to vote for, such person upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than
fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. Same
Act, Sloo.


1877. If any person, not having the legal quail
iicatons of any elector, shall frauduently vote,
or shall fraudulcntly attempt to vote at any cleo
ton, such person conviction thereof shall be
fined in any sum not less than twenty nor more
than two hundred dollars. Same Act, SlOlJ


ls9 If any elector shall vote more than once
at any election, or shall knowingly hand in two
or more tickets folded together, or shall attempt
to vote more than once at the same election, he
shall on conviction thereof be fined in any sum
not exceeding five hundred dollars. Same Act,
Sl02.1


1879. If any inspector, judge or clerk Of any
election, while acting such, shall induce, or
attempt to induce, any elector, either by menace
or reward, or promise thereof to vote differently
from what such elector shall intend or desire to
vote such person so offending shall, upon con-
viction thereof be fined in any not less than
f;ftv nor more than FIVE hundred dollars. Same
Act, sl03.


l00 Ii any inspector, judge, or clerk of an
election SHALL previous to putting the ballot OF
any eector in the balot-box, attempt to pry into
or find out any name or names On such ballot
which shall have been handed in by said elector
in folded form or if any inspector, judge, or
clerk of any election shall open or suffer the
folded ballot of an elector, which has been hand
ed in to the Board Of Judges, to be opened or
examined into previous to putting the same into
the balot-box or if any inspector, judge or
clerk Of an election shall make or place any
mark or devise any folded ballot which has
been handed in to the Board of Judges by any
elector, with the view to ascertaining the name
of any person persons for whom such elector
shall have voted at any such election; or if any
| inspector, judge clerk of election, without
the consent OF the elector, shall disclose the
name OF any person or persons which such in
spector, judge or clerk shall have fraudulenty
or illegally discovered to have been voted for be
such elector at any election, every such nspec-
tor, judge or clerk of an election so offending
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any
sum not less than fifty more than FIVE hun.
cred dollars. Every person who shall forge oil
| counterfeit returns of election purporting to
have been held at a precinct, town or ward
where no election was in fact held, or shall will
fully substitute forged or counterfeit retnrns NJ