EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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from such "Independent" group or groups. Said groups shall

be printed on said ballots in columns parallel to each other;

the group representing the party polling the largest number of

votes for Governor in the State at the last gubernatorial elec-

Grouping of

tion being placed first or at the left of said group ; the group

candidates'

representing the party polling the next largest number of

names.

votes at said election being placed second ; and the group

representing the party polling the next largest number of votes

at such election third ; and so on. Candidates of parties not

having made nominations at the late gubernatorial election, and

other independent candidates, shall be arranged in like groups

according to the date of filing the certificates of nomination.

If a candidate is named for the same office on two or more cer-

tificates of nomination, his name shall be placed in each of

the several appropriate groups. Above the party name shall

be printed the party emblem, if any ; the size thereof shall not

Size of em-
blem to be

exceed two and one-half inches in height and two inches in

used.

breadth. Any party in city convention, or by city committee,

may select any emblem which shall lie certified at the time and

in the same manner that the nominations are certified, and

which shall be the emblem of the party in the city until changed

by like authority. In case the same is selected by two or more

parties, it shall be the emblem of the party whose certificate is

first filed, and the other party may in like manner certify

another. Where candidates have been nominated in any other

manner than by a convention or primary election, or by a com-

mittee acting under the authority of a convention, an emblem

may be adopted and certified in the manner aforesaid; pro-

Proviso.

vided, that the emblem selected shall not be one already ap-

propriated to a political party.

270TT. Said ballots shall be printed upon plain white print-

ing paper of ordinary book weight, in black ink, and in clear,

legible type. On the back and outside shall be printed the

How ballots

words "Official Ballot For." followed by the designation of

shall be
printed.

the polling place for which ii is prepared, the date of the elec-

tions and a fac-simile of the signature of the president of Board

of Supervisors of Elections by whom the ballot has been pre-

pared. Said ballot shall be printed on the same leaf, with

a detachable stub or coupon one inch high and three inches

wide above the upper right hand corner of the ballot, and bind-

ing on the upper edge thereof, but separated therefrom by a

line running along the entire width of said coupon. Upon

said coupon shall be printed the words "Voter's Name," with

a line drawn thereunder for writing said name, and under

said line the words "Number of Voter," followed by a blank