Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1890 — REDISTRATION NECESSARY. [ARTICLE]

REDISTRATION NECESSARY.

Requirements of the New Election Law .Who Must Register..When ¥ Not many people seem to know it, but the time is at hand when registration under the new election law should begin. Those who are required to register must do so at the bounty Clerk’s office three months before election. The election this year will occur on November 4, so the last day for registration is less jthan a month from now. County Clerk lrwin> in accordance with tie provisions of the law, has placed in his office a registration book, and is patiently waiting for voters to come up and enroll their names. The cleik will get a fee of 25 cents (paid by the county) for each person that registers. State Librarian Dunn says in his official election law manual (required by law): “While the law does not require repeated registration of citizens who reside continuously in the same county from one general election to another, it does require the registration of every person who moves into any county within six months preceding an election, whether he previously resided within the State or not; and also, of every person, who having once been a citizen of Indiana shall have gone to another State with the intention of voting, or shall have been absent from the State for a period of six months. ” The system is a departure from ordina-. ry registration laws, and is des signed to cut off absolutely false declarations of residence and the importation of voters. Under the head of “Duties of Voters,” Mr. JDunn, in his manual, gives these plain instructions about registration: “The voter must register at the County Clerk’s office three months before election.

“1. If, having been a resident of Indiana, he has absented himself from the State for six monfhs or more. “2. If, having been a resident of Indiana, he has voted in another State. “3. If, having been a resident of Indiana, he has gone into another State or sovereignty with the intention of voting there. “4. If be has not been abonafide resident of the county in which he resides for at least six months before election. “The first three specifications are indefinite as to time, but presumably mean that the voter must register if he has so absented himself or voted since he last exercised the right of suffrage in Indiana.

“The certificate of registration must be taken to the polls, as the voter can not vote unless he pro duces it on demand of the challenger. This registration need no! be made if, prior to leaving the State, the vdter filed with the Countv Clerk a notice of his intention to hold residence in Indiana.'’ Under the provisions of tho law all the iudiana office holders :*n Washington must come home 1o register if they expect to partici* pate m the election this fall.— These voters are expected to swoop down upon Indiana next week Their fares will be paid or halffare granted.

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