Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1913 — REGISTRATION ACT HAS BEEN REVISED [ARTICLE]

REGISTRATION ACT HAS BEEN REVISED

Voter May Record Name by Affidavit Under Amendments Passed .by House. - Fifteen bills were passed and thirty-one introduced in the House Tuesday. The Storen registration bill, amending the present registration law, was passed with amendments which will permit voters to register by affidavit will strike from the registration books the names of those who do not exercise the right of suffrage, and which will reduce from three to two the periods of registration. "• *.~;’ — Senator VanNuy’s bill permitting municipalities to own and operate telephone systems was passed. Representative Biddle’s bill, which chiefly aims at large corporations by limiting the amount of road tax that may be “worked out” to S2O, and requiring all other road taxes to be paid in cash, was passed. Representative Lyday’s bill to increase the salaries of all township trustees to approximately $3 a day was voted down, in the passage of a motion by Representative Combs for indefinite postponement of the bill.

The Storen registration bill was parsed by a vote of 95 to 0. The bill provides that the September registration period shall be discontinued. The amendments provide that a voter shall be entitled to register by affidavit filed with the county auditor at any time between the 180th day preceding the next general election and the twentyninth day preceding. It is also provided that the registration board in any precinct shall prepare a list of all the voters and shall, within thirty days before the election, send to each voter who shall be found not to have exercised the right of suffrage at the preceding election a written notice to that effect, and if he then fails to register his name shall be stricken from the registration records. (