Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1914 — REGISTRATION THIS YEAR IS DIFFERENT [ARTICLE]

REGISTRATION THIS YEAR IS DIFFERENT

Only One Registration Day Unles* Voters Petition for Another— Absentees May Register.

* The new law enacted by the legislature of 1913 provides for one registration day, which shall be on Monday, the 25th day before the election. This will be on the sth of October this year. A September session may be held on petition of 300 voters of the county filed with the county auditor 80 days before the election.

There shall be a registration board in each precinct, consisting of an inspector, appointed by the .Board of Commissioners at their August session, and two clerks of different political parties, appointed by the inspector on the recommendation of the chairman of the two political parties casting the highest vote in the county at the preceding general election. The members of the registration board shall 'be eligible as members of the election board.

The county commissioners shall provide a room in each precinct for the meeting of the Registration Board, and if practicable, the same room in which the election is to be held. Due notice shall be given, by posting and publication, of the meetng of the Registration Board, and voters failing to register shall not be allowed to vote. The hours for registration are from 6 a. m. till 9 p. m., and on the written request of ten voters, three of whom shall be freeholders, the session may be repeated the next one or two days, if necessary to accommodate the voters.

The compensation of the Board shall be $3.00 per day for the inspectors, and ten cents per mile for the shortest distance between his residence and the Auditor’s office, and $3.00 per day for each clerk. One watcher from each party may be present during registration hours, such watchers to be designated by the county chairmen. that the person offering to vote is not registered, hut it shall he the duty of the registration board to refuse such a vote, even though there be no challenge. Any voter who is unable to appear before the Board by reason of being sick, quarantined or unavoidably absent from the county, shall be entitled to register by signing the proper application blank stating the reason of his absence and his whereabouts on the day of registration, and having it presented to the Board on registration day by any registered voter. Such application must be sworn to before an officer authorized to administer oaths ana having an official seal. Two freeholders residing in the precinct must also certify that they are acquainted with the applicant and that the facts stated in his application are true. The penalty for false registration or foir signng another’s name to an application is imprisonment, fine and disfranchisement.

Will Waymire, clerk at the Makeever house, found a purse containing sl2, which had been lost by Miss H-azel Kenton, who was visiting at the home of L. H. Hamilton, and the money was restored to the owner.