EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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and to deprive none whom they know or who may be shown to

be members of said party of the privilege of voting, and they

Duty of the

shall allow no one to vote who has been a member of any other

Election
Board.

party than the one conducting the election within two years

prior to said election, and only those shall vote whose names

appear upon the registration books of the respective precincts

or districts ; and it shall be the duty of the registration officers

to act as ballot clerks and give all information to said elec-

tion board necessary to strictly carry out the provisions of this

Act, though all persons whose names do not appear upon said

registration books who will be qualified to vote in said dis-

trict or precinct on the succeeding election day shall be entitled

to vote at said primary election. And said board shall permit

no person to vote who has solicited, directly or indirectly, by

himself or through another person, or who has been promised

by any candidate, directly or indirectly, payment or promise

of payment, office, appointment, emolument or anything of

value, for his vote, support or influence. Each voter shall

indicate the person or persons for whom he votes by a cross

To vote by a

mark placed in the box opposite the name of said person, and

cross mark.

every vote or cross mark shall be counted which clearly ex-

presses the intention of the voter. The said inspectors shall

keep a full and complete list of all persons whose votes are

accepted and of all persons whose votes were rejected, and

Rejected votes.

such lists must be returned with the ballots, with the reasons

in writing for the rejection of all votes rejected, naming the

persons, affidavits and returns of the election board. No voter

shall be allowed more than ten minutes to mark his ballot.

The polls shall be closed promptly at eight o'clock P.M., and

the said board shall proceed to count the votes cast for the

several candidates, and make out a correct return of all the

votes cast for them, and the names of the offices for which each

is a candidate; the votes cast for each opposite their respective

names, the affidavits made by the board, the return of the elec-

tion board, the list of accepted voters, and the list of rejected

applicants to vote which shall be placed in the ballot box,

which shall be locked and sealed with a paper strip pasted

over the keyhole and extending over the lid of said box onto

the side thereof, and the names of said board shall be written

across said seal, together with the number of the district and

precinct, before said seal is pasted on said box, and the said

box shall not be reopened until a meeting of the county conven-

tion hereinafter provided for. The ballot boxes used at said

Ballot boxes.

primary election shall be provided by the Board of Election Su-

pervisors of said county, and shall be delivered to said primary