STATE BALLOT LAW, ELECTION STATUTE. TO TAKE EFFECT MARCH 1. An act to regulate the nomination election of public officers requiring certain expenses incident thereto to be several counties and certain other expenses to be paid by the commonwealth and pun elections Sec. L house of representatives of the « wealth of Peunsylvania, in general sembly met, and it is hereby enacted th (authority of the same. after March 1, 1802, all ballots cast in elec tions for public officers within this com- monwealth shall be printed at public expense as hereinafter provided Nnmmoa- by of instruction for tho ele s in election officers, us hereinafter provisions of th!a act shall Le a charge, unless herein otherwise provided, other election expenses, It shall the duty of the secretary of the commonwealth to prepare forms for all the blanks mad pecessary or advisable by this act, and t furnish copies of the same to the coun commission of each connty, procure furt the same at cost of the urnish them t election officers or other persons by whom they are to be used in such may be necessary to carry visions of this act Sec. 2 Any convention of delezatel or primary meeting of electors, or caucu der the rules of a political party, 0 ard rized to noming. tions representing a political party, which, at the election uvext preceding, polled least 3 per cent. of the largest vote for any offi cast in state the electoral district or ivision of, for nur eaucus, con rd make orcertify nomi ions, may somin one candidate for each office wi filled io the state or in ti division at the next ensuing causing a certificate of no drawn up and filed Lere provided any polled 8 percent. of state at the election next precedi astate officer was voted for, may make and certify inatiops according tot! fons of this section for any elector ordistrictoft thatand such political party may bave pol than 8 per cent. of the ent last preceding election in said electo trictord Every such certific pomina 1 be signed by the pres officer and the the convention or eas or board, who shall d th piaces of residence and shall be affirmed to by them before an off} fisd to adm best of their kn certificate of the certificate nf! © Sec 8 Nomiva public office may also tion papers signed | the state or of th sion thereof for thadeand filed in I ed {no section 5 of this act pation Is foranyollice t ersof t fled elect f the statesigr pation paper shall be at per cent. of the largest vote for d io the state at the election at which a state In the case of all ot be who sh er copies of wnty and f quantities as out tue pro uth certify et entire ar in tiiere meeting, to ite wWaic venti desires is t¢ 00 Bs that 0m estate, notw re ve secretary or secreta primary meet ad aister oaths, to be tr lid ates be made ! ¥ e elect which the pr Wi be A hestatept large then rs rast ast salified « the Jia of thereof, which a the nom pation paper wade out in str i peguircnents of this act sha Nemication Papers Must Me Expilcit. Bec. 4. All certificates of nomination aud gomination papers shall One {1). The party or policy @idate represents expressed in not than three words; the case of ele ors of president and vice president ot United States the nan for president and vice presidert may added to the party or political appellation Two (2). The name of each candidate nomi pated therein, his profe or occupation, if apy, and his place of resi dence, with street and number ti son, if auy. Three (3) The office for which such candidate is pominated, provided that uno words shall be used in any nomination pa- pers to describe or designate the party or policy or polit eal appeliation represented Ly the candidate named ig such nomination papers as aforesaid identical with or simi lar to the words used for the like purpose lo certificates of normiaations made hv a convention of delegates of a political party which at the last preceding election polled 8 per cent. of the largest vote cast, Sec. 5 Certificates of aomination for can didates for the offices of presidential elect ors and members of the house of representa tives of the United States and for all state offices, including those of judges, senators and representatives, shall be filed with the gecretary of the enmmonwealth at least fifty-six days before the day of the elec tion for which the candidates aro nominated, and nomination papers for cavdidates for the sald offices shall be filed with the ssid secretary at least forty-nine days before the day of such election. Certifleates of nomimation und nomination papers for candidates Yor ull other offices except townnhip and bareugh #fices sliall be filed with the county dum ¥rioners of the respective counties at jrast forty-two and thirty-five days respec : be tava specify which such in the 3 tidtes names of the cond be Rion business cates of nomiantion and vomiuation papers for candidates for township ana borough offices and electiou officers and school die rectors (0 the sane shall be filed with the auditors of the respective townships and tw! epectively Sec. 6 The certificates of nomination and poroipation papers being so Ned gad boing fu conformity with the provisions of this act shall be deemed to be valld, unless ob Jections thereto are duly mude io writing, First—In the case of certificates and pa pers designed for the state at large within thirty days after the Inst day for the filing of auch certificates and papers Secondo the case of other certificates and papers, except those designed for ough and township oflicers, within twent days after the last day for the filing of suc certificates and papers, Third~In the case of certificates nnd pa pers designed for borough and towns officers within threo days after the t day for the filing of such certificates and papers. Objections ns to form and apparcut conformity or to of certificates or papers designed for the state at large shall be filed with the secretary of the commonwealth aud shall be considered by him conjointly with the anditor general and attorney general, and shall be decided finally by a majority of these officers. Ob jections of the same Kind to other certif cates anc papers, except those {or borough nd township oftices, shall the and shall finally by a majority of them. Objections of the samo kind to certificates and papers designed for borough and township oflicey shall filed be decided by a majority of them | last nonconformity nw be filed with commissioners be bo All ob papers, other than ohjections as to form or apparent conformity as h scribed, shall io the case of papers designed (or filed in the court of common p phin county, and in the certificates and papers such tenfore de. certih) tho state case shall be filed in any court of comi within the judicial district of election d fet or division or for ates ¢ de is pa cert whi ~ signed me frapers ' be situated, Incase the ices of EE8S%I0ND, one r more in ( Alely prod Wt are more than in any elect) jections may be referre 1to any « are filed whicl shall Duties of Secretary and 9 ‘Le Shem. retary of ti retary : Lhe ae shall, ten days at least of Uni ansmit to the Any eiection ¥ ers, tr ners and the sherif h election is to be hel id names east two newspapers, if there be so many in the county, representing so as practical the political parties whic ling election cast I next largest © of votes, and in every snch proclamation or advertisement he shall “"l=Enumerate the officers to ba elected and give a list of all the nominations cept for officers and WAGs as provi for in such form in w ballots, the iarpest umber ex eiection Assen unre, county as 1ich they » but the proclamations posted in names of any voted for in such district “I1—~Designate the place at which the election is to le held “111 He shall give notice that every per son, excepting justices of the peace, who shall hold any office or appointment of profit or trast under the goverument of the United States or of this state, or of any city or incorporated district, whether a commissioned officer or otherwise, n sub- ordinate officer or ngent who ia or shall be employed uuder the legislative, executive or judiciary department of this state or of the United States or of any city or incor porated district, nod also that every mem: ber of congress nnd of the state legislature and of the select or common council of any city or commissioners of suy incorporated district is by law incapable of holding or exercising at the sume time the office or appointment of judge, inspector or clerk of auy esleetion of this commonwealth, and that no iaspector, judge or other officer of any such election shall be eligible to any office to Le theu voted for,” excupt that of au election officer Sec. 11. lu case of the death or with drawal of any candidate wominated as here in pros ided, the party, convention, primary meating, entucus or board, or the citizens who nominated snch eandidnte, may nom: innte a substitute in his place by filing io the proper office at any time before the day of election a nomination eertificate or paper which shall conform to all the require ments of this act in regard to original cer tificates or papers, Provided, that if the said convention or citizens shall have authorized any committee to make nem | Inations in the event of the death or with. | drawal of candidates. the said convention | shall not be required to reconvene, nog 8a Sal] Citizens to sign a new nomination paper, but the sald committees aball have power to file the requisite nomiuvation cer | Sificate or paper which shall recite the facts of the sppolutment aod pow. rs of the said —— death or withdrawal of the candidate and of the netion of the committee thereon, and the truth of these facts shyll be verified by the affidavit annexed to the certificate or paper of two members of the commities and also of at least two of the officers of the convention who mate afl.davit in sup- port of the originel certificate or two of the citizens who mms afMidavit to the original pauper. And provided, also, that in case of a stibstituted nomination paper not filed by a coumittee but signed by citizens it shall only be necessary that two-thirds of the signurs of the sald paper shall have been sigoers of the original paper. Sec. 12 All substituted nomination cer tificates or papers may bo olijected to as provided in section? of this act, and if a substituted certificate or paper be filed alter the last day for filing. the original certificate or paper objections mast be mude withio four days after the filing, and no objection as to form or conformity to law shall be received after the time set for printing the ballots As soon as shall have been « y shall be aubstitnted in the plac o of that of has died or allow, nnd in tion be filed county comm substituted candidate any uly nominated, his name Ly the proper officers the wwithdrawn, candidate who 80 far as time may substituted mit traasmi ners or t case nl with or 0 ted ywnshig ough nuditors after the buliots | winted, the sai hail prepare 1 iP COMIssIoners and distribute with ots suitable slips of pauper bearing t stituted name, the thie office, and, havin ih pa the reverse » each ve may be aff | How Ballots The gether with ter Must De Printed. thercin to 8s of officers nf wed election off % iu the same, the be printed and dis fin r : nd gh Jed ter may desige uste bis ® i A hf 1 f a politicalgmrty or group by one cross mark io the margin to the of the part same or political decgnation of anc group, and such mark shail be wivalent Loa mark against every name in the groups Sec. 153 All the ballots used at the same ZX place stauy election shall be alike, righ vot four inches wide, they sha!l be printed with not be smaller "brevier' or “eight point body") upon white paper, without any impression or mark to distinguish one {rom another, ex cept As expressly authored herein or by the constl on of this commonwealth Each ball shall be attached to a stub or counterfoil, and all the ballots for the samc voting place shall be bound together in convenient numbers, in books, in such manner that each ballot may be detached spd removed separately A diagonal foldiug line shall be printed ‘han the size known as of each ballot, aud the sail corner shall be #0 that the corner when folded at the folding line can be securely fastened down over the uuro- ber now required by the constitution of this commonwenith, so that the said sum: ber eaunot be seer. without unfastening or citting open the part so fastened down The top of each baliot shall have a margia of equnl size on both back and face, and the said folding line shall be upon this margin, but nothiog else shall be printed thereon except instructions how to mark. Provided, that if at any time the sald con: stitution shall oense to require buliota to be numbered, the foregoing requirements as to the folding line, the margiu and the ad: hiesive paste shiall be void On the back of each ballot, or on the right band side of the hack, if the ballot is printed fo two columns, there shall be rinted as a caption, “official ballot for,” ollowed by the designation of the voting place for which the ballot is prepared, the date of the election and a facsimile of the signatures of the county commissioners of the respective counties who have cansed the ballots to be printed, unless they have been printed by towuship or borough aud: ttora. A record of the number of ballots printed aud furnished to each voting shall be kept and preserved by the county commissioners of the several connties when it is shown by affidavit that mistake or omission has occurred in the publica tion of names or description of candidates or in the printing of the ballots, the cours of common pleas of the distriet or count or any judge thereof may, upos the po cation of auy qualified elector of she died trict or county, require the county com missioners to correct the mistake or omis sion or to show cxnse why they shoald nos! See. 16. The county ecommissiopers ench county shall provide for each slection district in which an elestion thi held) except in elections for tewoship ough offices two sets of uss ballots, ve for hai dent and fraction of Aly They shall also prepare full instructions for the guidance of voters as to obtaining binllots, as to the manner of innrking them und the method of gaining assistunce, and as to obtaining new ballots in pluce of those accidentally spoiled, and they shall re spectively cause the ssiue, together with coples of sections 31 to 36 inclusive of this act, to Le printed In large, clear type on separate cards, to be called cards of in- struction They shall wlso cause to be rinted on tinted paper apd without the Taitatle indorsemeuts ni equal number of copies of the form of the ballot provided for each voting place at each election there in, which shall oe culled specimen ballots, and at each election they shall furnish to euch voting place, together with the bal lots to be used there, a sufficient number of ecards of instruction and specirnen bal- lots for use as regnired®in section 21 of this act. They shall also provide for each elec tion district at every election therein twq copies of the assessor's lists of voters and shall deliver the same ax such lists are pow delivered, vue copy to be called the “ballot checklist’ for the inspectors in charge of the ballots and the other copy to be called the "voting checklist,” to be used in mark ing the name of those who have voted and the numbers of thelr Lallots, as now re quired by law Bec. 17. The two sets of ballots, together with the specimen ballots and cards of in struction printed by county commis siouers as herein provided, shall be packed by them in separate sealed packages, with nmiarks on the outside clearly designating the election districts for which they are io. the tended and the number of ballots of each | inclosed, {1 then ers of the re comm i separately and at different be sent by the county S101 0 at Ye re aturday n and the vlther set scluy before the 4 election ’ i of shall on return DETH, time hich the pav- preserve rece pls of elections delivery to them oi such hi res recoipls there! r who shall whew and erul packages are sen for the period of the said judge " of officers Jughs anda of election ofl 11 sch Lors the same, a sha provide t sir} + Lisa £ 2b er vf he Kee the Lua in for each election di for every Bfty and fractic ¥y voters ou the assessor's It aod an equal number of spe bs «, and shall obtain f the ox cards men f . i . Ww ¥ i oars: pites and ¢ vente s {or ballots Sec. 3. To provide for the ont of said shelves or compartments anv guardraiis io the year of 180 of mouwealth, the internal fairs aod the anditor general abhall ; they are hereby constituted a boa to de cle upon a pattern the said shvives or | compartinents, and a pattern of the said BE sardrails and tpn the m sterial to be uaed rithem or ap IX a rt Com 'e Lhe » t tue Com pecreiary © af be and 1 ™E 11e ud to or nd such other may neers of ¢ Im mt Mmriment as he said Ix after the Comm IYNInNg i the paticrn | cost, and { thoy bave provided thesa partments and goardrae the auditor general of ti yon wen A statement of thie votin ‘ oR county, naming them, au we pumber | of shelves or compartine provided for each according to the pattern adopted and of the cos of the same, not exceeding the limit to be fixed us aforesaid, which siate ment shall be signed itl com missioners, verified by afidavit of one of them and approved by the conunty con: troller or auditors, Un receipt of the sand | statement the anditor general shall draw warrants upon the treasury of the com- | monwealth in favor of the treasurers of the counties from which the said state ments shall bave been received for the sums therein stated to be due, and the state treasnrer is herely directed to pay the said warrania » The said sheives or compartments and guardraiis shall thereafter Le the property of the respective counties, and no further allowance abiall be made to the counties by the auditor general for providing the same Sec. 21. At the opening of the polis in each voting place the seals of ove package shall be publicly broken, and the said age shall be opened by the judie of elec: sions. The cards of instruction shall be immediately posted at or in each voting shelf or conipartment provided in accord ance with this act for the marking of the ballots, and not less than three such oards and not less than five speciuen ballots shall be isumediately posted in or about the voting room outsice the guardrail, and such cards and specimen baliots shall be given to any voter at his request. The second set of ballots shall be retained un. opened by the respective judges of election ati! they are tevded for the purposes of voting, Sec. 8. Any person desiring to vote I give his name nod residence to one of election officers in cinrge of the ballots, who shail therenpon announce the same in # loud and distinct tone of voice, and if Bl is found upon the ballot check: and aired «his frase age era of me the re . pred said cor wind the 2 th in the by the s tint by tnspecior or clerks ig charge thereof he shall likewise repeat the pame, nnd the voler s { be nilowed to ter the spncs inci the guargr unless his right to vote be challenged person whose nanie is not or whose right to vole shall be clhinl by a qualified citizen shall be within ssid guardrail until he linhed his right to vole in the maot provided by law, acd his na the checklists shall then be adds Jism, As s00n os 6 voter is adyu in the rail the election charge of the ballots shell detach » from the stub and give it 10 the sale but shall first fold it so that printed on the back and out ed in section 15 of th wording visible, nr voted unless f Not wore than one Lal 8 voter except as is of this act. As scon ao ballot the letter against his name on lot checklist, but vo of the ballots stall lista. Besides the elc BUDEIVISOrS MH“ of the United 8 by the courts o more than {x \ number of voting sh provided shall be spice AL OQe Lite Sec, 2. On receipt of his bali shall forthwith sod witl spuce inclosed by the ons of the voting shels and shall hy an the officer 810 Toul Jed cunime ters In Ves GF "nis nore PETS " closed space tix er Or sdidate, inted matter within the said room, except Ly Inw Sec. 25. Nalist & : names of ws or memomndum of except such Liss Aas rized by law, shall be mad ng room by any pers any list or n y of the numbers marked upon be made or kept, except such expressly horized by law that any voter may mate a of the nutnber of his own in t and the watchers may keep their poll woks and chal lists After the ciming of the polis, aud before the Laliot boxes are open ed, all the lists of voters upon which the pumbers of the ballots are recorded, as BOW 1 quired by lawy shall be pia in separate sealed covers, properly 1 irked, gtd the stubs of all the ballot used, 100 gether with all nnused ballots tiie Bai ot checklist, shall aiso in a ig the sent tora aut en rer od mel nad the case of the ballots cust, and neither the said package nor the said lista of voters shall thereafter be opened, except bLy the return judges, or in the case of a contest or upon the urder of a court of a compelent jurisdiction Sec. #8. No person other than the elec tion officers shall take or remove any bal jot from the voting pince: If any voter in. advertently spoils a ballot he may obtain nuother upon returning the spoiled owe, The ballots thus returned shall be imme dintely canceled, and at the close of the polis shali be secured in an _cuvelope, sealed and sent to. the proper office, as re quired hy law in the case of ballots cast Seo 21, If auy voter declares to the judge of election that by reason of disability he lenires assistance in the preparation of his ballot he shall be permitted by the judge of election to select a qualified voter of the election district to aid bim in the prepara. tion of his ballot, such preparation being made in the voting compariment. See, 28 If A voter marks more bames than there are persons to be elected to an ofilce, or if tor any reason it is impossible to determing the voter's choice for any of- fico to be tilled, his ballot slinll not be count. ed for such oflice, No ballot without the offitial indorscinent shall, except as herein otherwise provided, be allowed to be de sositen] inn the ballot box, aod none but bal ots provided in accordance with the pro- visions of this act sball be counted. Ballots not marked or improperly or defectively marked shall be indorsed as defective, bus shall be preserved with the other ballots, If nuy ballot appenrs to have been obtained otherwise than as nrovided in thi t of elections sda adge i Bl ) to the diaities attorney do iny, together 3% may havi whatever Information the detection of Lhe sane, are closed the remain in the wu wd rail, and to count the | not be ad- sutil it shall have been fi A record shall firs be made of the number of the last ballo® cast. The officers in charge of the votin checklist shall in the presence of the othe officers and watchers count in a disgineg and sudible voice the names checked oF tie said list, and anponoes the whole nme ber thereof, apd the lista of voters the stubs of ballots used and of uuused ballots shall then be sealed up os requ 25 of thiy act The ii then be opened by ote shall be taken therefrom fospector Jesig pated by the judge and andibly counted one by one by the fudge, and wien the count is completed the whole number of balio's cast shall be announced, und the counting of the number of votes received by each person voted [Or shui then pro ceed. All ballots after being removed from the Lox shall be kept » the unob structed view of r the voi fog roc a ut of their rench until they are pia in the ballot Lox, ay required by law full rn be made in the vided by law of all voles otal Yous as soon as coutited no proceed the judg : mn those preser iG ai inced ce officers, con ies and constiat pow fe ed by law to be present at the polls, to IW ie YOLIOR 1 Bilge Lhe vit on tes Are there 0 room, but ¢ enerve order pence LTeERe Ty i A nwhoth a yahinii DOE BUCH {form or willlus inder Lhe oi gent VIRIONS Wise mean or ii be seitenced to ng $1.0, or to un snment for not more than An impris ire the discretion of Lhe it, or LULh, at 35. Any printer employ ed by the com missioners of auy county or auditors of any township or borough to print any officiel ballots, or any person eng aged iu printing the same who stall appropriate to himself, or give or deliver or knowingly permil to be taken any of said bmlluts by any other person than such COMMISMONETS or auditors or their duly authorized agent, or shall willfully print or cause to be printed any official baliot in any other form than that prescribed by such commission. ers or auditors or with any other names thereon or with the uses spelled other be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be sentenced (0 pay a fine NOt exces tng §1.000, ar to nuder- go an imprisonment for not more than five years, or both, at the uiscreiion of the conrt, Sec. 38. Any person other than an offices a person intrusted by any such officer with osmession any counterfeit of an official allot, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, pay a fine not exceeding $1,000, or to un dergo an imprisonment for Bot more U Sec. 87. Section 13 of an aot yeild An act relating to the wlections of this ri approved the 3d day of Ju! 1830: wection ©¥ of the act entitled "A further supplement to an act entitled ‘Au act to incorporate the city of Philadeipbis,' approved the 24 day of February, 184," nd all Jaws and parts of laws inconsistent Borewith, shall be and the same hereby aie id idth gay. ol June, A P led, pproved the .D er ye ROBT. ATTISON.
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