Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1900 — Ballots and Boxes. [ARTICLE]

Ballots and Boxes.

Attorney-General Taylor has given an opinion of much interest to voters. As there will be four ballots and only three boxes, the question has arisen, where the constitutional amendment ballot shall be placed. Mr. Taylor says that the supreme court has decided that all properly marked ballots shall Jbe counted, ho matter in which ballot boxes they are found. Therefore the constitutional amendment ballots can be counted in any of the boxes. The State Election Board, however, has agreed iliat the constitutional amendment ballot shall be placed in the box with the countv ticket ballots, as they are printed on white paper. Mr. Taylor says, with reference to road supervisors, that the most of the township trustees have di vided their townships into four districts, but some have not, and have allowed the districts to stand as they were before the act of ’99 was passed. He says that the only thing to be done in these cases is to place all the nam®s of the candidates for supervisors on one ticket, and then let the court determine who is elected.