Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1916 — MUST REGISTER ON OCTOBER 9 [ARTICLE]

MUST REGISTER ON OCTOBER 9

If You Have Either Moved or Become of Age SINCE THE LAST ELECTION Otherwise, if You Registered in 1914, You Do Not Have to Register This Year—What Law Requires. J . Registration day this year will come on 'Monday, October 9. The registration boards will be in session but the one day, from 6 a. m. until 9 p. m., except, perhaps, in some of the cities where they may petition for a two-day session. Some newspapers are giving out information that would tend to be misleading to many voters, as the following paragraph from the Lafayette Journal will indicate: There are no exceptions. It is not sufficient that you may have registered two years ago and that you have not moved out of the precinct in the meantime. This is not the case. All voters who registered and voted in 1914 and who have not moved out of the precinct where they then registered and voted do not have to register this year.

All voters who have become of age since the election of 1914 and those who have moved from one precinct to another since that time, must register on October 9 if they wish to vdte in November. If you are not now of age but will be at any time up to the day of election, you are the same as a qualified voter and have a right to register. If your birthday comes the day following the election you are a qualified voter even, as you were really 21 the day before and on the anniversary of your birth you are starting on the twenty-second year. Provision is also made for the registration of voters who for any cause whatever will be absent or unable to appear in person and register on October 9. If you are going to be absent you can apply to the county auditor or the party headquarters and secure an “absent voter” affidavit and properly filling out same and then arrange for someone to present it to the registration board on October 9. This also applies to voters who are sick are quarantined. All voters who have moved out of the precinct where he registered and voted in 1914, and then returned to the same precinct, must register again this year. All voters who registered in 1914, but for any reason failed to vote at the election of that year, must register again. It is the duty of every voter to ascertain that he is legally registered and that he has a right to vote before October 9. After that it will be too late, for you cannot make affidavit on the day of election. There is only one way. That is to register on October 9 if you are not already qualified.