EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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inside of said rail can approach within six feet of the ballot

boxes, and of such voting shelves or compartments ; the num-

ber of such voting shelves' or compartments shall not be less

than one for every one hundred voters qualified to vote at

such polling place and not less than three in any district or

precinct voting place in said county ; no person other than the

said election officers and voters admitted as herein provided

shall be permitted within said rail except the sheriff, or deputy

sheriffs, for the sole purpose of keeping order and enforcing

the law, and so long only as may be necessary for this purpose ;

and in the absence of any sheriff or deputy sheriff or constable

the judges of election shall have power to appoint a special
constable to preserve order, who shall have the same powers

Power to ap-
point special
constable.

during the progress of said primary election as a constable of

said county regularly appointed; not more than six voters in

addition to those then within the railing shall be admitted to the

room at one time, and each voter, except the officers and repre-

sentatives beforementioned, shall be required, after voting, to

withdraw entirely from the room. The judges of election may

admit persons from time to time to aid in determining the fact

whether a voter is entitled to vote, and such persons shall with-

draw at once after their statements shall have been given.

Any person desiring to vote shall give his name, and if re-

quested to do so, his residence, to one of the ballot judges to be

designated for this purpose by the judges, who shall thereupon

announce the same in a loud and distinct tone of voice, and if

such name is found by the judges of election upon the list of

registered voters, or if the person offering to vote shall satisfy

Manner of

the judges of his having acquired the right to register at the

voting.

next registration as aforesaid, the voter shall be allowed to

enter the space enclosed by the guard rail as above provided;

a ballot judge shall then give him one, and only one, ballot;

before handing the ballot to the voter, the ballot clerk shall

place his own initials immediately beneath the fac-simile sig-

nature and so that the same may plainly appear when the ballot

shall have been folded; besides the election officers not more

than four voters in excess of the number of voting shelves or

compartments provided shall be allowed in said enclosed space

at one time. On receipt of his ballot the voter shall forth-

with and without leaving the enclosed space retire to one of

the voting shelves or compartments and shall prepare his bal-

Election Su-

lot in accordance with the rules or regulations furnished by the

pervisors to
f urnish rules

governing body of each of said political parties to the Electior

and regula-
tions.

Supervisors and by them transmitted to the judges of election

said rules or regulations shall be furnished the Election Super-