Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — REGISTRATION DAY SET FOR OCTOBER 9 IN STATE [ARTICLE]

REGISTRATION DAY SET FOR OCTOBER 9 IN STATE

Only One Session of Board in Each Precinct.—lnstructions Are Sent Out. October 9 will be voters’ registration day this year. There will be only one session of the registration board in each precinct in Indiana. Voters who were registered in 1914 and who still live in the same precincts in which they were registered at that time will not be required to register again this year, but any voter who has moved since the 1914 election or who lives in a different precinct from the one in which h? voted at that time will not be eligi ble to vote this year unless he registers October 9 in the precinct in which he now lives. Democratic and Republican slate committees have sent instructions *o all of the county organizations in the state on the subject of registration of voters, and both parties are working to make the registration of their voters complete. The following information is contained in a circular sent out by the Democratic state committee: The Board: An inspector, appointed by the board of commissioners of the county at its regular August session preceding the election; he must, at time of appointment, be either a voter and resident freeholder of the township in which the precinct is situate, and have resided in said township continuously for one year immediately prior thereto, or a resident householder and voter of the precinct with continuous residence in the precinct for at least two years Immediately prioi thereto: Two registration clerks to be appointed by the inspector not less than five (d) days before the day of registration. These be voters and residents of the precinct. They can not both be adherents of one and the same political party. There Is no provision as to what parties they must belong, except, that in writing, and at least ten (101 days before the registration session, one of these clerks may be nominated

by the county chairman of each of the political parties which cast the second highest and third highest vote in the county at the last preceding general election, and upon receiving such nomination, the inspector shall so appoint. (Section 3,

Acts, 1915, Page 5 32.) The session: (1) Held on Monday, the 29th day before the election, which this year is October 9, 1916. (2) The law does not provide for any other session. (3) Begins at 6 a. m. and ends at 9 p. m., of that

day, except (4) When necessary to accommodate the voters it may be prolonged one (1), the next dav, during like hours, upon (5) \ request in writing, signed by 10 voters of the precinct, three (3) of whom are freeholders, filed with the registration board. Permanent registration: (i) if the registration books of any precinct, used in 1914, have been destroyed, or are mutilated or inaccessible, or for any other cause unfit to be used, there has to be a registration of every voter, in thdt precinct, upon/proper notice posted by the inspector, but otherwise, (2) Any voter resident in the precinct, whose name appears on the registration books of his precinct, and who has continued to reside in the precinct in which he is registered and who shall not be disfranchised, and who has voted at the last preceding general election, shall not be required to register again. (3) In addition to the necessity of reregistering where the books are unfit foi use, it may occur that the bound-, aries of a precinct are changed (which can not be done later than the .March session before the election» and in this event, voters should satisfy themselves on registration day that their nacres are on the permanent list being prepared by the board, and if necessary, register for that purpose. (4) In case of omission, inadvertently or otherwise, of the name of a voter that registered and voted in 1914 at the general election, he can be reinstated by filing a sworn statement, provided for in Sec. c -- acts 1915, at page 539, this statement to be endorsed by two freeholders of the precinct, and should be made out on blanks substantially in the language of the statute. This statement can be filed with the auditor of the county any time before he has delivered the registration books to the inspector of the election board, or can be made and filed with the election board on the day of the election, and the voter will be entitled to vote. (5) All who have changed precincts since the election in 191* should register in 1916 whether they voted in 1914 or not. Absent voters—Registration by affidavit: (1) Any voter, required to register, may when the facts justify, register by sworn application, containing: (a) All matters required of applicants in person, (b) A statement that on the day or days of registration he is, or will be, unavoidably absent from the county, stating his whereabouts on such day or days, or that he is sick, or quarantined, as the case may be. (c) That thereby and bv reason thereof he is prevented from registering in person at said session of said board, (d) The application must be sworn to before some officer authorized to administer oaths and having an official seal. (e) Two freeholders residing in the precinct must certify, on the application, that they are acquainted with the applicant, that he is the person he represents himself to be, and that the facts stated in the application by him are true, (fl The application, when so swor ? and certified, shall be delivered to the board of registration of the precinct where applicant resides, by any registered voter of the pretinct, on the day or days that the board is in session to receive applications for registration.