CHAP. 102 herein directed by the secretary of state to any clerk, shall be duplicated on the succeeding day. Printed lists shall be posted of any city in the state, four days before any election. -city clerk SECT. 15. The city clerk of each city shall four days at up in each ward least prior to the day of any city election therein, cause to be conspicuously posted in one or more public places in each ward of such city, a printed list containing the names, residences, and party or political appellations of all candidates nominated as herein provided; and to be voted for in such ward, substantially in the forin of the general ballot to be so used therein; and he salt likewise cause to be published, prior to the day of selection, in at least two newspapers, if there be so many; printed in such city, representing the political parties which cast at the preceding election the largest and next largest number of votes, a list of all the nominations made, as herein provided, and to be voted for in such, city, so far as may be, in the form in which they shallppear upon the general ballots. shall publish the same in two newspapers prior to election. Two sets of ballots shall be sent by secretary of state at different times, to city, town and plantation clerks. SECT. 16. The secretary of state shall send, separately and at different times or by different methods, the two sets of general and special ballots, together with the specimen ballots, and cards of instruction printed by him, as herein provided, to the several city, town and plantation clerks, so as to be received by them, one set seventy-two hours at least previous to the day of election, and the other set forty-eight hours at least previous thereto. The same shall be sent in sealed packages, with marks on the outside clearly designating the polling place for which they are intended and the number of ballots of each kind enclosed; and the respective city, town and plantation clerks shall on delivery to them of such packages, return receipts therefor to the secretary. The -record of same secretary shall keep a record of the time when, and the manner in which the several packages are sent, and shall preserve for the period of one year the receipts of the city, town and plantation clerks shall be kept. Two sets of ballots, etc., to city clerks. SECT. 17. The two sets of ballots together with the be provided by specimen ballots and cards of instruction printed by the city clerks, as herein provided, shall be packed by them in separate sealed packages, with marks on the outside clearly designating the polling places for which they are intended, and the number of ballots of each kind enclosed. One set of ballots, etc., SECT. 18. The several city, town and plantation clerks or shall be sent to municipal officers shall send to the election officers of each election officers on the day of election for use of voters. voting place before the opening of the polls on the day of CHAP. 102 1893-267 -cards of shall be posted in each compart ing of the polls in each polling place the seals of the packages. set. SECT. 19. In case the ballots to be furnished to any city, town or plantation, or voting place therein, in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall fail for any reason to be duly delivered, or in case after delivery they shall be destroyed, lost or stolen, it shall be the duty of the clerk or municipal officers of such city, town or plantation to cause other ballots to be prepared substantially in the form of the ballots so wanting and to be furnished; and upon receipt of such other ballots from him or them, accompanied by a statement under oath that the same have been so prepared and furnished by him, and that the original ballots have so failed to be received or have been so destroyed, lost or stolen, the election officers shall cause the ballots so substituted to be used in lieu of the ballots wanting as above. SECT. 20. The municipal officers, sixty days before any election, may divide towns of more than four thousand inhabitants and wards of cities into convenient polling districts, which shall contain not less than three hundred voters in each, defining the limits thereof by a writing under their hands -second set needed. CHAP. 102 -warden and each polling place. to be filed with and recorded by the city or town clerks; and attested copies thereof shall forthwith be posted by said clerks in not less than six public and conspicuous places in said town or ward, and the same shall be published in one or more of the newspapers, if any, printed in said city or town, thirty days at least before such election. They shall also ten ward clerk all days before any such election, appoint a warden and ward be appointed for clerk for each polling place other than the one in which the warden duly elected for such ward shall preside, who shall perform the same duties at elections as presiding officers and clerks of towns and wards now perform. Any vacancy occurring after appointment may be filled by the voters of said polling district as similar vacancies are now filled. All such officers shall be sworn. The board of registration of prepared by the voters for any city in which a ward has been so divided, and the municipal officers of any town which has been so divided, shall in the manner now provided for by law, prepare check lists of the qualified voters for each of said polling districts, in lieu of the check lists now provided by law for the entire town or ward, to be used as hereinafter provided, and all provisions of law applicable to check lists for towns and wards shall apply to check lists for such polling districts. -check lists proper officers. Clerks shall be -number. SECT. 21. The municipal officers of cities, towns and plantations voting in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall biennially in the month of May appoint clerks for each polling place. For each polling place in cities and towns of more than one thousand inhabitants, four clerks, and for each 1873-267 polling place in plantations, and for each island ward of the represent each -terms. city of Portland and for the island district of the town of Cumberland and for every town of less than one thousand inhabitants two clerks shall be appointed. Said clerks shall -shall equally equally represent each of the political parties which cast the largest number of votes in the state election next preceding their appointment. Each of said officers shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his duties, and shall hold office for two years from the date of his appointment, and until a successor is appointed and qualified, or he is removed. Such election officers shall attend at the times and places designated for meetings in their respective wards, towns or plantations for the election of any national, state, county or ward officers, and for the determination of any question submitted to the qualified voters of any city by -duties and CHAP. 102 lawful authority, and shall receive such reasonable compen- Two of the clerks in each polling place, one from each political party, shall be detailed by the municipal officers to act as ballot clerks. The two ballot clerks thus detailed and appointed in each polling place shall have the charge of the ballots therein, and shall furnish them to the voters in the manner hereinafter set forth. A duplicate list of the qualified voters in each ward, town or plantation shall be prepared for the use of the ballot clerks, and all the provisions of law relative to the preparation, furnishing and preservation of check lists shall apply to such duplicate lists. not eligible as two shall be ballot clerks. duties. detailed as shall be provided, where voters may be observation 11893-267 SECT. 22. The municipal officers in each city, town or Voting shelves plantation, as aforesaid, shall cause the polling places therein to be suitably provided with a sufficient number of voting shelves or compartments, at or in which voters may conveniently mark their ballots so that in the marking thereof they may be screened from the observation of others, and a guard rail shall be so constructed and placed that only such persons as are inside said rail can approach within six feet of the ballot boxes, and of such voting shelves or compartments. The arrangement shall be such that neither the ballot boxes nor the voting shelves or compartments shall be hidden from view of those just outside the said guard rail. The number of such voting shelves or compartments shall not be less than number of one for every one hundred voters qualified to vote at such polling place, and not less than three in any town, and not less than five in any ward of a city. No persons other than the election officers and voters admitted as hereinafter pro--who may be vided, shall be permitted within said rail, except by authority guard rail. of the election officers for the purpose of keeping order and enforcing the law. Each voting shelf or compartment shall be kept provided with proper supplies and conveniences for marking the ballots. the SECT. 23. Any person desiring to vote shall give his name, and, if requested so to do, his residence, to one of ballot clerks, who shall thereupon announce the same in a loud and distinct tone of voice, clear and audible, and if such voting shelves. admitted within voter shall give his name to ballot clerk, and if on check list, he may enter within guard CHAP. 102 1893-267 -he shall ballot, and his How voter shall prepare his 1893-267 name is found upon the check list by the ballot officer having charge thereof, he shall likewise repeat the said name, and the voter shall be allowed to enter the space enclosed by the guard rail, as above provided. The ballot clerk shall give him one, and only one ballot, and his name shall be immediately checked on said list. Besides the election officers, not more than two voters in excess of the number of voting shelves or compartments provided, shall be allowed in said enclosed space at one time. SECT. 24. On receipt of his ballot the voter shall forthwith, and without leaving the enclosed space, retire alone to one of the voting shelves or compartments so provided and shall prepare his ballot by marking in the appropriate margin or place, a cross X as follows; he may place such mark opposite the name of a party or political designation, in which case he shall be deemed to have voted for all of the persons named in the group under such party or designation; or he may place such mark opposite the names of the individual candidates of his choice for each office to be filled, or he may may fill in the name of the candidate of his choice in the blank space provided therefor and place the mark opposite as aforesaid, in which cases he shall be deemed to have voted only for the individual candidates opposite whose names he has placed such mark. In case of a question submitted to the vote of the people he shall place such mark in the appropriate margin against the answer which he desires to give. Before leaving the voting shelf or compartment the voter shall fold his ballot, without displaying the marks thereon, in the same way it was folded when received by him, and he shall keep the same so folded until he has voted. He shall vote in the manner now provided by law before leaving the enclosed space, and shall deposit his ballot in the box with the official endorsement uppermost. He shall mark and deposit his ballot without undue delay and shall quit said. ballot shall be enclosed space as soon as he has voted. No such voter shall be allowed to occupy a voting shelf or compartment already occupied by another, nor to remain within said enclosed space more than ten minutes, nor to occupy a voting shelf or compartment for more than five minutes in case all of such shelves or compartments are in use, and other voters are -no voter shall waiting to occupy the same. No voter not an election officer whose name has been checked on the list of the ballot officers, -manner of marked and deposited without undue delay. -time, voter re-enter |