Year: 1871

SOs


l55. If the vote of any person be challenged
on the ground that he has been convicted of an
infamous crime, or disfranchised by any Court
of competent jurisdiction, he 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, 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 are closed, proclamation
thereof shall be made at the place of voting and
no votes shall be afterwards received. Same
Act, S32.


COUNTING cANvAssING, RESULTS MAKING


RETURNS, AND GIVING CERTIFICATES OF ELECTION.


157. As soon as the polls 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 are counted
the counting of ballots shall, in all cases, be
public. 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 filed,
and the name of each person voted for for such
office, and shall keep the number Of votes by tai





Judge. The counting of the votes shall be con-
tinued without adjournment until all are count
ed. Act March 23, 1850, p. lor, S33.1


1853. If two tickets are found folded together,
they shall both be rejected and if more persons
are designated 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
| n 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, E34.


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 lists 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 n cord
or thread by the Inspector during the counting
Of the ballots, in the order in which they are en-
tered upon the tally list by the Clerks and said
ballots, together with the other of said certf-
Gates, with the poll list and tally paper to which
it is attached shall be sealed up by the Inspect
or in the presence of the Judges and Clerks and
indorsed {" Elections Returns" and be directed
and delivered or sent by the Inspector to the
County Clerk in the county in which the elect
ion is held, and the said ballots shall be kept
for at least six months by said Clerk and if
any person be of an 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, 1868, Is, p. 1851


100. 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 an affidavit that the
package was delivered to him by one of the
Judges (naming 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 mail, 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, $86.


l6l. No tally paper, poll list or certificate, re-
turned from any election, shall be set aside or





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


162. 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 Upen
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 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 IS, 1861, Il, ;, p. 500 !


1874. If any person shall, directly or indirect
ly, use any threats, menace, force, or any cor
rupt means or device, at or previous to any elec-
ton held pursuant to this Act, towards any elec-
tor, to hinder or deter him from voting at such
election, or shall attempt by any means whatev-
er to awe, restrain, hinder, or disturb any cleo
tor in the free exercise of the right ndsufrage
he shall npon conviction thereof be fined in any
sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. Act
March 23, 1850, S98.]


1856. 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
ticket, such person informing or giving such
elector to understand that it contains name or
names written or printed thereon different from
the name or names which are written or printed
thereon, such person shall upon conviction there
OF be fined in any sum not less than fifty nor