Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1906 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

them, except by placing one In the circle or on the squares, as above described. Otherwise the ballot will not be counted. You must not put any mark of any kind upon your ballot except in the manner above described. Fourth. After you have marked your ballots, and before you leave the election booth, fold them up separately so that the face of each one can not be seen, and so the initial letters of the names of the Polling Clerks on the back thereof can be seen. Then hand your ballots to the Inspector, the pencil to the Polling Clerks, and immediately leave the election room. Fifth. If you are physically unable to mark your ballots, or can not read English, so inform the Polling Clerks, and make an affidavit to that effect. They will then go with you into the election booth, and you can then tell them how you desire to vote, and they will mark your ballot for you. Neither you nor the Polling Clerks must permit any other person to hear or see how your ballot is marked. It is a penal offense to declare you can not read English or can not mark your ballot, if, in fact, you can. [ln no case can the ballots ba marked by the Polling Clerks if the voter can read the English language and is physically able to mark his ballot Nor can they mark it until the voter has made the proper affidavit] Sixth. If you should accidentally, or by mistake, deface, mutilate or spoil one of our ballots, return it to the Poll Clerks and get another one of the same kind. Seventh. You must not accept a ballot from any person outside of the election room. Any ballot outside is fraudulent; and it is a penitentiary offense to have it in your possession, whether you attempt to vote it or not. Eighth. You must not attempt to hold any conversation in the election room except with members of the Election Board and the Polling Clerks. Ninth. Use only the blue pencil handed you by the Polling Clerks in marking your ballots. If you mark with any other pencil, your ballot so marked will be void, and will not be counted. Tenth. You must not put any mark of any kind on your ballot, except aa above described. VOTING BY MACHINE. If you are unable to vote by machine on account of physical disability or inability to read English, and make an affidavit to that effect, you will be instructed or assisted by the Polling Clerks, as in the case of voting by ballot If you request it, you will, upon being registered by the Polling Clerks, be instructed by them as to the manner of voting by machine. You can not remain in the voting machine booth more than one minute; and no person can be in or near the machine when a voter is in the voting machine booth unless it Is tho Polling Clerks while Instructing or assisting the voter. THE NEW LAW AS TO BUYING AND SELLING VOTES. (Approved March 6, 1905. Acts 1905, p. 481.) Penalty for Buying Votes. 1. That whoever, directly or indirectly, hires, buys or offers to hire or buy, or furnish any money or other means to be used, or directs or permits his money or other means to be used, or handles any money or other moans, knowing the same to be used to induce, hire or buy any person to vote or refrain from voting any ticket or for any candidate for any office, to bo voted for at any election hold in this State; or whoever attempts to Induce any person to vote or to refrain from voting for any candidate for any office to be voted for at any election held pursuant to law or at any primary held in this State, by offering such person any toward or favor, shall be fined in any sum not more than fifty dollars and disfranchised and rendered incapable of holding any office of trust or profit for a period of ten years from tho date of such convlo* tloa. Penalty for Belling or Offering to Sell Votee. t. Whoever sells, barters, or offers to sell or barter his vote or offers St refrain from voting for any candidate for any office to be voted for at any eleo tlon held in this State, either for any money or property or thing of value or for any promise or favor or hope of reward, given or offered by any candidate to bo voted for at any election hold in this state or by any other person or persons, shall be fined in any sum not more than fifty dollars and disfranchised and rendered incapable of holding any office of trust or profit for a period of ten years from the date of such conviction. Wltneseee. 8. Any person called as a witness to testify against another for tho vloto> tlon of any of the provisions of sections one or two of this act. is a competent witness to prove the offense, although he may have been concerned as a party, and he shall be compelled to testify as other witnesses, but such evidence shall not be used against him in any prosecution for such or any other offense grow* Ing out of matters about which he testifies, and ho shall not be liable to trial by Indictment or informaticb or punished for such offense. _ <