Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS. [ARTICLE]

INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS.

Ist You must get your ballots of the polling clerks in the election room. 2d. If you want to vote a straight ticket, stamp the square to the left of the name of the party for whose candidates you wish to vote. If you do not wish to vote a straight ticket, then do not stamp the square to the left of the name of your party, but stamp the square to the left of the name of each candidate for whom you desire to vote on whatever list of candidates it may be. — 3d. Do not mutilateyour ballot or mark it either by scratching a name off or writing one on. or in any other way except -by the stamping on the square or squares, as before mentioned. Otherwise the ballot will not be counted. 4th. After stamping your ballots and before leavingthe booth, fold them seperately so that the face of them can not be seen and so that the initial letters of the names of the polling clerks on tho backs thereof can be seem—Then-hand your ballots to the inspector the stamp to the polling clerk, and leave the room sth. If you are physically unable to stamp your ballots or can not read English, so inform the polling clerks and tell them how you wish to vote, and they will stamp your ballots for you, but the voter and clerks should not permit any other person to hear or see how the ballots are stamped. 6th. If you should accidentally, or by mistake, deface, mutilate or spoil your ballot, return it to the poll clerks and get a new ballot.