Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1894 — How to Vote. [ARTICLE]

How to Vote.

The following instructions if carefully followed will enable any one to vote correctly. Read carefully: To vote a straight Republican ticket stamp anywhere withia the large square that contains the eagle, but stamp nowhere else, not even the email squares at the left. To vote a mixed ticket do not stamp in the big square at all, but go through stamping the small squares at the left of the name you wish to vote for on any ticket. If you stamp the large square and then stamp anywhere else, your vote must be thrown out.

The poll clerk hands you three ballots, a pink one with state ticket of all fofir parties on it; a white one with all four of the county tickets on it; a yellow one with all the township tickets on it. Go into the booth and stamp each one, in the way directed above, then fold each one separately- in such a way that all the names are on the inside and out of sight, and the poll clerks’ initials will be in sight on the outside, then come out of the booth and give these three folded, separate tickets to the inspector, and give the stamp to the poll clerk. In case you make a mistake of auy kind, and spoil a ballot, return it tb the poll clerks and receive a new one. Butjin returning, do not show the face of the ballot, showing how you tried to stamp it, as in that case you will not be allowed to vote.