Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — THE FOLLOWING IS THE METHOD OF VOTING: [ARTICLE]

THE FOLLOWING IS THE METHOD OF VOTING:

The voter will pass through the chute or passage-way aud when he arrives at the “challenge window” he must announce his full and true name to the challengers. If challenged he must either stand aside ami not .vote or he must swear iu his vote. If not challenged or if he swears in his vote, as provided by law, he will go into the eleetion room; but no more than three voters will be allowed in the election room At ono time. On entering the room the voter must announce his name to the Poll clerks who must register it One Poll clerk will then deliver to the voter one state ballot and one local ballot, and the other Poll clerk will thereupon deliver to him a cancelling stamp or marker. Then, without leaving the room, the

voter will go alone-into any of the booths which may be unoccupied and indicate the candidates for whom he desires to vote by stamping the squares immediately preceding their names. If, however, he shall desire to vote for all candidates of one party, and none other, or, if in other words, he desires to vote a straight party ticket, he may place the • stamp on the square preceding the title under which the candidates of such party are printed, and the vote will then be counted for all the candidates under that, title unless the name of one or more candidates under another title shall also be stamped, in which case the names of the candidates so stamped will be counted. Before leaving the booth th p

voter must fold his ballots separately so that no part of the face thereof shall be exposed and so that the initials of the Poll clerks, previously written on the lower left hand corner of the ballot—as above explained—shall be exposed. The voter will then leave the booth and return the stamp to the Poll clerk, from whom he received it, and deliver the folded ballots to the inspector, who will, forthwith, in the presence of the voter and of the election board, deposit the same in the proper ballot boxes —the state ballot in the red ballot box and the local ballot in the white ballot box. The Poll clerk must then write the word “voted” after the voter’s name on the poll lists and the voter will leave the election room. ’