Bern aca
Bellefonte, Pa,, November 12, 1920.
LESSONS IN CITIZENSHIP.
ELECTION OFFICERS.
PENALTIES.
Are there any penalties provided
for an infringement of the election
laws ? + ;
"Answer: Yes. Any voter who al-
lows his ballot to be seen by another
~ person, with the apparent intention of
letting it be known how he is about to
wote, or any person who shall cast, or
attempt to cast, any other than the of-
ficial ballot which has been given him
by the proper election officer, or any
person who shall Jalscly declare to a
judge of the election that by reason
of any disability he is unable to mark
his ballot, or any person who shall in-
terfere with any voter when inside
the enclosed space or marking his bal-
lot, or who shall ask any voter before
depositing his vote, to show how he
marks, or has marked, his ballot, or
any helper who shall attempt to infiu-
ence the vote of the voter whom he is
assisting, or who shall mark the bal-
lot of such a voter in any manner oth-
er than that requested by the voter
whom he is assisting, or any helper |
who shall disclose to any one the con-
tents of a ballot he has helped to
mark, except he may be required to do
so in legal proceedings, shall be guil-
ty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
‘wiction shall be sentenced to pay a fine
not exceeding one hundred dollars, or
to undergo an imprisonment for not
more than three months, or both at
the discretion of the Court.
Is there any additional penalty pro-
vided for any person convicted of any
of these violations of election laws?
Answer: Yes, all persons convicted
of willful violation of the election laws
shall, in addition to the penalties pro-
vided by law, forfeit their right of
suffrage absolutely for a term of four
years.
COMPUTING THE VOTE.
After the closing of the polls what
action is taken?
Answer: All persons must leave
‘the voting room except the election
afficers who remain within the guard
rail, and the qualified watchers in the
voting room.
What do the election officers pro-
ceed to do as soon as the polls are
closed?
Answer:
After the polls are closed |
a city, town or village upon a railroad
line leading to the county seat, must
deliver the returns before two o’clock
p. m. of the day after the election; all
other judges must deliver their re-
turns not later than noon of the sec-
ond day after the election.
What is done with the ballot box-
es? .
Answer: If the authorities of the
township, borough, county or city in
which an election is held have provid-
ed a place for the safe keeping of the
ballot boxes, the judge and minorit
inspector shall see that the ballot box
or boxes are securely bound with tape
and sealed and the signatures of
judges and inspectors affixed, and
shall deliver them, together with box-
es containing tickets, list of voters
and other papers, to the mayor or re-
corder, if the election be held in a city,
or if in a county, township or bor-
ough, to such person as the Court of
Common Pleas of the county shall
have designated at the place provided
What does this officer do with the
ballot boxes?
Answer: This officer must deposit
the said boxes and keep them subject
to the call of any Court authorized to
try the merits of the election.
If no place has been previously
named by the Court for depositing the
ballot boxes, what disposition is made
i of them?
| Answer: Where no place has been
‘named for the depositing of the bal-
i lot boxes, the same shall, within one
{ day after the election is held, be de-
i livered to the nearest justice of the
| peace, who keeps them subject to the
call of the Court
How are election returns certified?
Answer: At twelve o'clock on the
second day following any election, the
prothonotary of the Court of Common
Pleas shall present the official returns
to the Court.
The returns presented to the pro-
thonotary shall be opened by the
Court and computed by such of its of-
ficers and such sworn assistants as
the Court shall appoint, in the pres-
ence of the Judge or Judges of the
said Court, and the returns shall be
certified and certificates of election
shall be issued under the seal of the
Court; and the vote, as so computed
and certified, shall be made a matter
of record in the said Court.
Is this done in secret session?
Answer: No, the sessions of the
. Court shall be open to the public while
i the computation is in progress.
i What action is taken if the returns
jot any election district are missing
! when the returns are presented?
Answer: If the returns from any
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Print Paper Story Told in Paragraphs.
The output of print mills the past
twelve months has been 80,000 tons
less than the consumption.
The increased production of print
mills in 1919 was an increase of 185,-
000 tons over 1918.
The total output of 1920 should be
2,400,000 tons, or ten per cent. more
than during 1919.
In 1880 newsprint used was three
pounds per capita; in 1894, nine
This
year’s consumption will reach 35
pounds.
The average daily circulation of U.
S. papers is 27,000,000 copies, or one
for every family.
Sixty newspapers have in excess of
10,000,000 circulation. These papers
average 23 pages week days, 81 pages
Sundays.
Last year’s production of news print
would cover 10,000,000 acres. In the
form of average width rolls unwound,
it would extend 13,000,000 miles.
The increase in use of news print
in twenty years has been 200 per cent.
The increase in population 70 per cent.
Ten years ago the United States
produced all the wood pulp it used.
Now, two-thirds of it is imported.
‘Wood pulp for print paper has been
developed in the past 50 years.
Of all papers used, but 22 per cent.
goes into newspapers.
Before the war, print sold at two
cents, and was high. Now it sells for
an average of eight to ten cents.
The demand is increasing.
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Going Up!
The kind-hearted minister was ex-
postulating with the landlord who had
raised the poor parishioners’ rent
abot three hundred and thirteen per
cent.
“If I want to hear you preach,” said
the landlord angrily, “I'll come to
church, where you should do your
preaching, and listen to you there!”
“If you were where you should be,”
was the dignified reply, “you would
have that opportunity next Sunday. I
am to preach at the State’s Prison!”
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and befcre the ballot boxes are open- | election district are missing when the
ed, a record is made of the number of | returns are presented, a summary pro-
completed, when they
the last ballot cast; then the officers in
charge of the voting check-list shail,
in the presence of the other officers
and watchers, count, in distinct and
audible voice, the names checked on
the said lists, and announce the total;
then the list of voters shall be placed
in a package together with the stubs
of all the ballots used and «ll the un
used ballots.
What is done with this package ¢
Answer: The package is sealed and
the name of the voting place marked
on it, and it is sent to the proper oi-
fice, the same as the ballots cast. This
is required by law.
What do the election officers then
proceed to do? 2 ny
Answer: The inspectors then open
the ballot box, take the votes there-
from and proceed to count them aud-
ibly, one by one, until the count is
whole number of ballots cast.
What is the next step taken?
Answer: The next thing is to count
the number of votes cast for each per-
son voted for.
How is this done?
Answer: The judge, in the pres-
ence of the inspectors, shall read
aloud the name or names marked or
inserted upon each ballot, together
with the party name under which each
wote was cast and the answers marked
thereon to any questions (if any were
submitted) and the clerks shall cach
carefully enter each vote read,
keeping tally on papers prepared for
the purpose.
Why do the cleiks do the cntering
oi the votes?
Answer: The clerks enter the votes
because the judge and inspector are
counting, and it is against the law for
either of these officers whic counting
the ballots to have ir his hand any
pen, pencil or stamp with which bal- |
lots could be marked.
Where are the ballots put while the
counting is in process?
. Answer: After being icmoved
from the ballot box, the ballots, while
being counted, must be within plain
wiew of those in the voting room, but
eut of one’s reach, except the judge
and inspector who are counting them.
What is done when the counting of
the ballots is completed ?
-Answer: When the counting of the
balldts is completed the ballots are re-
placed in the ballot box and the ofii-
eers of the clection shall make oo full
réturn in triplicate of the votes cast
and prepare an additional return sheet
‘which is given to the judge of the
election.
How is this report prepared?
Answer: The name of each candi-
date is written, and after his or her
name the number of votes received is
itten, first in words and again in
gures, and the returns signed by all
the election officers.
. Is there any public announcement of
the returns made at the voting place?
Answer: Yes, as soon as counted
the result must be fully declared pub-
licly from the window to all the citi-
wens present outside; then a brief
statement showing the votes received
by each candidate must be prepared
and signed by the election officers and
en posted upon the door of the elec-
n house for the information of the
public.
What disposition is made of the
friplicate return sheets?
Answer: The triplicate returns are
enclosed in an envelope and sealed,
and the judge of elections must deliv-
ex this envelope to the prothonotary
the Court of Common Pleas of his
‘ epunty, together with the additional
return sheet which is filed, and the
doy and hour of filing is preserved by
e prothonotary for public inspection.
Is there any designated time in
hich these returns must be deliver-
~ Answer: Yes, all judges of elec-
tions, living within twelve miles of the
prothonotary’s office, or within twen-
ty-four miles
announce the!
if their residence is in|’
| gens is issued against the election of-
| ficers of that district to bring them in-
to Court with the returns from that
! district.
| What action is taken if a qualified
| elector under oath complains that a
i palpable fraud or mistake has been
| made in the returns from any election
district?
{ Answer: If a qualified elector un-
"der oath shall complain of palpable
fraud or error in any return, or where
fraud or mistake is apparent on the
. return, and the Court deems it neces-
sary for a just return, the Court shall
summon the election officers and over-
seers (if there were any) of the elec-
| tion district complained of; and bring
them into Court with all the election
; papers in their possession; and if pal-
i pable fraud or error is discovered it
| shall be corrected by the Court and so
certified by the Court.
i EHow long a time is given to the
| Court for the official computation of
i the vote?
i Answer: The Court must decide all
| cases of palpable fraud or mistake
{within three days after the returns
Lare brought into the court.
‘When the court has certified the re-
turns does this mean that the election
has been judiciously decided as just,
and that the same may not be contes-
ted ?
Answer: No, the court, in comput-
ing the vote, has only concerned itself
with palpable fraud or mistake in the
returns after the court has certified
an election.
What further action is required by
the return judge or judges of the
court?
Answer: It is the duty of the re-
turn judges of the court to see that
properly attested certificates of the
election are filed with the Prothono-
tary, and copies sent within five days
to the Secretary of the Common-
‘wvealth, in case of National and State
officers, and . in the case of United
States Senators and Representatives
in Congress and members of the State
‘Senate and House of Representatives,
to the elected candidates themselves.
Just You Wait.
First Executive—Frst they wanted
higher wages, so they could’marry;
now they want shorter hours. What
next?
Second FExecutive—Longer hours
after they’re married a while!
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