Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — HOW TO VOTE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOW TO VOTE.

Point. That Every Voter Should Bear In Mind. 1. Get your ballots of the polling clerk in the election room. No other ballots are permitted to be used. 2. Stamp within the large square containing the rooster and nowhere else.

The stamp must be placed within or on the square or the ballot is void and cannot be counted. Do not stamp elsewhere on the ticket if you stamp within the square at the head of the ticket. 3. Do not mutilate your ballot, or mark it either by scratching a name off or writing one on, or in any other way, except by stamping on the square as before mentioned. Otherwise the ballot will not be counted. 4. After stamping your ballots first see that the ink from the stamp is thoroughly dried; then fold them separately so that the face of them cannot be seen and so that the initial letters of the names of the polling clerks on the backs thereof can be seen. Then hand your ballots to the inspector, the stamp to the polling clerk and leave the room. IL If you are physically unable to Stamp your ballots, or cannot read English, so inform the polling clerks and tell them how you wish to vote and they will stamp your ballots for you. But the voter and clerks must not permit any other person to hear or see how the ballots are stamped. 6. If you should accidentally or bymistake deface, mutilate or spoil your ballot return it to the poll clerks and get a new one.