Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1889 — GENERAL ELECTION LAW INCLUDING BRIBERY LAWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL ELECTION LAW INCLUDING BRIBERY LAWS.

An Act concerning el-'ctions, providing i enalties for the violation ofthesam.u and repealing all laws in conflict therewith. [Approved March 6, 1889. | (Continued. Sec. 44. No person entitled to vote at any general,-national, state or county election, shall be employed upon the day on which such election shall be held, in any manufacturing, mining, mechanical or mercantile establishment or any railroad corporation in this state during the period ot four hours after the opening of any election in the county in which [such] person is entitled to vote, except as to works of necessity, iD which works ok necessity every empicye shall be given some period of four hours between the opening and the closind of the polls on said day; and any circuit court may enforce the provisions of this section in t:rm time or in vacation by mandat3 or otherwise, upon the aopUcation of anv voter. Every officer of any corporation, owner, superintendent, overseer *.r foreman, who employs or permits to be employed any person in violation of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined no f 1 -ss than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. passed by the challengers, h ive been sworn in, he shall be admitted to the election room: l ros vided, however, Th t not more than three voters shal be allowed in the-room at one time. On entering the room the voter shall announce his name to the poll clerks, who shall register it. The clerk holding the bailots shall deliver to him one state and one local badot, and tlie other clerk shall thereupon deliver to him a stamp, and both poll clerks, on request, shall give explanation of the marner of voting; if deemed necessary, b; unanimous consent of the board, an interpreter may be called. — The voter shall then, and without leaving the r om, go alone into any of the booths which may b? unoccupied, and indicate the candidates for whom he desires to vote by stamping the square immediately preceding their names, and indicate his preference on 'ny question of constitutional amendments or other special matter by stamping in from of the words “yes” or “no” under such questions: Provided, however, That if he shall desire to vote for all candidates of one party or group of petit oners, and none other, he may place the stamp on the square preceding the title under which the candidates of such party or group of petitioners are printed, and the vote shall then be counted fur all the candidates under that title, unless the name of one or more candidates under another title shall also be stamped, in which case the names of the can-' didates so stamped shall be counted. Before leaving the booth or compartment, the voter shall fold his ballots separately, so that no part of ihe faces th-reof shall be exposed, and so that the initials of the poll clerks shall be exposed, and on leaving the booth or compartment shall return the stamp to the poll clerk and deliver the ballots to the Inspector. «r to the judge who may temporarily be authorized to act for him, who shall forthwith, in the presence of the vote*, and of the election beard, depdsit the same in the respective ballot-boxes, the state b Hot in the red ballot box, and the local ballot in the white ballot box: and the ballot clerks shall write the. word “voted” after the name of the voter on the poll-lists: Provided, however, That if any elector shall show his ballot, or any part thereof, to any other person, after the same j Shall have bee~* marked, so as to disclose any of the candidates

voted for, such ballot shall not be deposited in the ballot box. A minute of such occurrence shall be made on the poll list-, and such person shall not be permitted to vote thereafter. The voter shrll then leave the room, but to voter to whom a ballot and stamp, or either, have been delivered shall be peimitted to leave the room without voting the ballots cr re* turning them to the poll clerk, or without returning the stamp to the poll clerk from whom he received it. Any voter who shall attempt to leave the room with a ballot or stamp in bis pos-ession shall at once be arrested on demand of any member of the election board. Sec. 46. Not more than one person shall be permitted to occupy any booth at onetime: and no person shall remain in or occupy a booth longer than may be necessary to prepaie bu ballot, and in no event longer than five minutes. Not mure than three persons othe' than the election officers shall b e permi ted to enter or be in the election room at any one time, and no voter, or person offering to vote, shall hold any conversation or communication with any other person than a member of the election board while in the election room.

Bec. 47. Any person who shall, by accident or mistake, deface cr* mutilate, his ballot, may, on returning the same to the poll clerks and satisfying them that such spoiling, defacing or .mutilation was not intentional, receive another in place thereof, and such clerks shall make a minute of the fact on the poll lists at the time, and the mutilated ballot shad then te destroyed by the elector uj the pres* ence oj the board. Sec. 48. Any elector* who de* dares that by reason of physical disab'lity or inability to read the E r gli h language, he is unable to mark his ballot, may declare his choice of candidates to the poll clerks, who, in the presence of the elector and in the presence of each other, shall prepare the ballois for voting in the manner hereinbefore provided, and on request shall read over to such elector the names of tlie candidates as marked. Any one making a false declaratior under the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding five dollars an 4 be disfranchised foi a period of five years, and any poll clerk or poll clerks who shall deceive any elector in selecting or marking any ballot, or mark the same in aLy other way than as requested by said elector, shall be guilty of felony, and on conviction, shall be imprisened in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than five years, and be disfranchised for any determinate period not less than five years. Sec. 49. No inspe tor of election, or judge, acting for an inspector, shall deposit anv ballot upon which the initials of the poll clerks, as hereinbefore provided for does not appear, or any ballot on which appears externally any distinguishing mark, defacement or mutilation

Sec. 50. Any person who shall remove or attempt to remove a ballot or stamp from the election room, or having in his possession outside the election room any ballot or stamp, either genuine or counterfeit, during the election, shall be guilty ot felony, and on convictien, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than five years, and be disfranchised for any determinate period not less than ten years. Sec 51. Immediately on closing the polls, the board shall count all the ballots remaining unvoted, rec ord the number of the same on the tally sheets, and destroy all ot such ballots by totally consuming by fire.

(To be continued.)

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