EMEN r THE NEWBALLOT LAW :TIib Amended Baker Pan FULL TEXT OF THE BILL JUST MADE LAW. Many Radical Changes For tbo Voter to Study Up On. Tlio governor lias signed tlio meas ure known ns tho "linker ballot rrform bill." Tho bill which bus becomo a liiw is the product of a conference com mittee of the tenntc und house- which consisted of J. P.HIUoMn, Henry Green and John N. Nceb on tho part of tho senate, and of Jesse WV. Baker, John II. Fow and Frank M. IUtcr on tho part of tho house. Following is tho full text of the bill: Suction 1. Be it enacted by the sen ate and house of representatives of tho Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in gen eral assembly met, and it is hereby en acted by tho authority of tho same, that from and after March 1, all ballots cast in elections fur public of II revs within this Commonwealth shall bo printed and distributed at pu'jlic cxpenso as hereinafter provided. The printing of tho ballots and of the cards of instruction for tho elections in each county, ai.d the delivery of the same to tho election officers, as hereinafter pro vided, and all other expenses incurred under tho provisions of this act Bhall bo a county charge unless herein oth erwise provided, tho payment of which shall be providud for in tho same man ner as tho payment of other elect ion ex penses. It shall bo tho duty of tho sec retary of the Commonwealth to prepare forms for all the blntiks made necessary or advisable by this act, and to fur nish copies of the samo to tho county commissioners of each county, .who uhall procure further copies of the same at tho cost of the county ami furnish them to tho election officers or any other persons by whom tliey are to bo used in, such quantities as may be necessary to carry out tue provisions of this act. TUB NOMINATIONS. Section 2. Any convention of dele gates or primary meeting of electors, or Caucus held under tho rules of a polit ical party, or any board authorized to certify nominations representing a po litical party, which at the election next preceding polled at least 8 per centum of tho largest entire vote for any office cast in the Rtute, or in tho electoral district or division thereof for which such primary meeting, cau cus, convention or board desires to make or certify nominations, may nom inate ono candidate for each otlice which is to be filled in the State, or in the said district or division at the next ensuing election, by causing a certificate of nomination to be drawn up and filed as hereinafter provided, provided that any political party which polled three per centum of the entire voto in tho Stato at the election next preceding at which a Stato otlicer was voted for mi-y make and certify nominations according to tho provis ions of this section for any electoral di vision or district of the State, not withstanding that such political party may have polled less than 3 per cen tum of the entire voto at tho last pro ceding election in said electoral dis trict or division. Every such certifi cate of nomination shall be signed by the presiding otlicer and tho secretary or secretaries of the convention or pri mary meeting or caucus or board, who shall aid thereto their places of resi dence, and shall be sworn or allirmed to- by them before an ollicer qualified to administer oaths to be true to the best of their knowledge and belief, and a certificate of tho oath shall be annex ed to the certificate of nomination. AKOTHF.li PI. AX OF NOMINATION. 6ection 8. Nomination of candi date for any public ollico may also be made by nomination papers signed by qualified electors of tho State, or of the doctoral district or division there of for which tho nomination is made, and filed in tho proper otlice as pro vided in section five of this act. Where the nomination is for ny office to bo filled by the voters of the State ut largo the number of qualified electors of the State signing such nomination paper shall be at least one-half of 1 per centum of the largest vote for any of ficer elected in the Stato ut the last proceeding election at which a State otlicer was voted for. In the case of all other nominations, tho number of qual ified electors of tho elactoral district or division signing such nomination papers shall be ut least 3 per cent cen tum of the largest entire vote for any otlicer elected ut tho last preceding election in tho said electoral district er division fur which suij nomina tion papers are designed to bo made. Each elector signing a nomination pn per shall add to his signature his place of rcsidenco and occupation, ami no person may subscribe to more than one nomination for each office to bo filled. The signatures to each nomination paper and the qualification of the sign ers shall bo vouched for by the affida vit of at least fivo of the signers thcro of, which affidavit shall accompany fthc nomination paper, provided that nomination papers which aro not sign ed and made out in strict- compliance with all tho requirements of this act shall be invalid. WI1AT MP ST UK STATED. Section 4. All certificates of nomi nation and nomination papers nhall specify: (1) Tho party, or policy, which such candidate represents ex pressed in not more than three words ; in the case of electors of president and vice president of the United States tl: names of the candidates for president and vice president may be added to the party or political appellation. (2) Tho namo of each candidate nominated therein, liis profession, business, or oc cupation, if any, and his place of resi dence with street and number thereon, if any. (3) Tho office for which audi candidate is nominated, provided that no words shall bo used in any nomina tion papers to describe or designate tho party or policy or political appel lation represented by tho candidate named in such nomination papers as aforesaid, identical with or similar to tho words used for the like purpose in certificates of nomination mado by a convention of delegates of a political party which at the last preceding elec tion polled 0 per centum of the iargest Vote cast. Sec. fi. Certificates of nomination for candidates for the offices of presi dential electors anil members of tho houso of representatives of the t'nited States, and for all State oiliccrs includ ing those-of judges, senators and rep resentatives, shall bo filed with tlio secretary of tho Commonwealth at least 50 days before the election for which tho candidates are nominated, and nomination papers for candidates for tho said offices shall be filed with tho said secretary at least 40 days be fore tho day of such election. WIIEKE PATE. 119 AB.E FILED. Certificates of nomination and nomi nation papers for candidates for all other offices, except township and borough offices, shall be filed with tho county commissioners of the respec tive counties at least 42 and 33 days respectively before the day of the elec tion. Certificates of nomination and nomination papers for candidates for township and borough offices and elec tion ollicers and school directors in the same shall bo filed with tho auditors of the respective townships and bor oughs at least 10 and 7 days respectively before the day of the election. See. 0. Tho certificates of nomina tion and nomination papers, being so filed and being in conformity with tho provisions of this act, shall b" deemed to be valid unless objections thereto are duly mado in writing. (1.) In tho caso of certificates and papers designed for the Stato at large within 80 days after the last day for tho filing of such certificates and papers. (2.) In tho cf.se of other- certificates and papers except those designed for borough and township ollicers within 20 days after thb last day for tho filing of such cer tificates and papers. (3.) In the case of certificates and papers designed for borough ard township officers within three days after the last day for the filing of such certificates and papers. Objections as to form or apparent con formity or non-conformity to law of certificates or papers designed for the Stato at large shall bo filed with the secretary of the commonwealth, and shall be considered by him conjointly with the auditor general and attorney general, and shall bo decid'. 1 finally by a majority of these otiicers. TO SETTLE OIIJECTIOKS. Objections of tho same kind to other certificates and papers, except those for borouuh and township offices, shall be filed witli tho county commission ers, and shall be decided finally by a majority of tlicm. Objections of the samo kind to certificates and papers designed for borough and township offices slull be filed with tho auditors, ond Bhall bo decided by a majority of them. All objections as to the validity of certificates or papers, other than ob jections as to form or apparent Con formity s heretofore described shall, in the caso of certificates or papers de signed for tho Stato at large, be tiled in thocourt of common pleas of Dau phin county, and in tho case of all other certificates and papers such obli gations shall be filed iu any court of common pleas within the judicial dis trict of which such election district or division or part thereof for which such certificate or papers aro designed njuy be situated. In case tho court is in session one or more judges of the court shall immediately proceed to hear 6uch objections without unnecessary ad journment or delay, and shall give such hearing precedence over all other busi nets before him or them. In case the court is not in session any judge of such court, on the presentation to him of tho certificate of tho prathonotary tint such objections have been filed as aforesaid, shall immediately proceed to hear such objections as aforesaid. Where there is more than ono court of common pleas in any election district or division, such objections may be re ferred by the court with which they are filed to any other court in such dis trict, if such referenco is necessary to secure a nioro convenient and speedy hearing, and all cases of dispute as to which of several courts in such district shall have jurisdiction shall to immedi ately decided ny tho judge being old est in commission in sucli district. 1'HOVISIOS FOIt WITHDRAWAL. Sec. 7. Any person whose namo has been presented as a candidate may cause his name to bo withdrawn from nomination by request in writing, signed by him ami acknowledged be fore an officer qualified to take acknowl edgements of deeds, and filed with the secretary of the commonwealth 13 days, or with tho county commissioners of the proper county 12 dayj, as tho case may be, previous to the day of election, and no name so withdrawn shall bo printed upon the ballots. Sec. 8. All certificates of nomination and nomination papers when filed shall bo open under proper regulations to public inspection, and shall bo pre served not less than two years in the offices where they have been filed. Sec. 9. The secretary of tho com monwealth shall, 10 days ut least prev io i to tlio day of any election ol Un ited States or Stato officers, transmit to to the county commissioners and the sheriff in each county in which such election is to be held duplicate official lists stating the names and residences of and parties or policies represented by all candidates whoso nomination cer tificates or papers have been filed with him ns herein provided for such election, and have not been found and declared to be invalid as provided in section six, and to be voted for at each voting place in each such county respectively substantially in the form of the ballots to be used then in. Tho comity com missioners of each county shall also send to tho sheriff of their county at least 10 days prior to tho day of any election an official list containing tho names, residences and party or political appellations of all candidates except those for election ollicers and school directors whoso nomination certificates or papers have been filed with the said commissioner as herein provided for such election, and to bo voted for at each voting place in the county sub stantially in tho form of the .ballots to bo used therein. MOCLAIMINO THE ELECTIONS. Sec. 10. It shall be tho duty of the sheriff of every county at least 10 days before- auy election to be held therein, except for township and borough olli cers, to give notico of tho samo by proclamations posted up in the most public places in every election district, and by advertisements in at least two newspapers, if there be so many pub lished in the county, representing so far as practicable the political parties which at the preceding election cast tho largest and next largest number of votes; am! in every such proclamation or advertisement lie shall: (1) Enu merate tho ollicers to bo elected and give a list of all tho nominations, ex cept for election officers and assessors, made as provided for in this act and to be voted for in such county as far as niaybo in the form in which they shall appear upon tho ballots, but the proc lamations posted in each election dis trict need not contain tho names of any candidates but those to bo voted for in such district. (2) Designate tho place at which tho election is to bo held. (3) Ho shall givo notice that every person excepting justices of the peace, who shall hold any otlice or appointment of profit or trust under the government of tho United States, or of this State, or of any city or incor porated district, whether a commis sioned r. fliccr, or othcrwiso a subordi nate ollicer or agent who is or shall be employed under the legislative, execu tive or judiciary department of this State or of the United States, or of any city or incorporated district, and also that every member of congress and of the State Legislature and of the Select or Common Council of any city or com missioners of any incorporated district, is by law incapable of holding or exer cising at the samo time tho otlice or appointment of judge, inspector or clerk of any election of this Common wealth, and that no inspector, judge or other ollicer of any such election shall be eligible to any otlice to bo then voted lor except that of an election ollicer. IN CASE OF DEATH. Skc. 11, It caso of tho death or withdrawal of any candidate nominat ed as herein provided tho party, con vention, primary meeting, caucus or board or the citizens who nominated such candidate may nominate a sub stitute in his place by tilling in thy proper otlice at any time beforo the day of election a nomination certifi cate or paper which shall conform to all tho requirements of this act in re gard to original certificates or papers, providud that if tho said convention ot citizens shall havo authorized any committee to make nominations in the event of the death or withdrawal of candidates, the said convention shall not bo rquired to re-convene, nor the said citizens to sign a new nomi nation paper, but tlio said committee shall have power to file the requisite nomination certificate or paper, which shall recite the facts of the appoint ment and tho powers of said committee, (naming all its members) of the death or withdrawal of the candidate, and of tho action of tho committee thereon; and the truth of these facts sliall be verified by the affidavit annexed to the certificate or p:ijer of two members of the committee, and bIho of at least two of tho ollicers of tho convention who made affidavit in supported" thu origi nal certificate, or two of the citizens who made allidavit to the original pa per; ami-provided also that in case of a substituted nomination apcr not filed by a committee but signed by citizens, it sliall only be necessary that two-thirds of the signers of tho said paper shall have been signers of the original paper. OH.II'.CTI'iSS TO RUn'TITL'TES. Sec. 13. All substituted nomina tion certificates or papers may bo ob jected to us provided in section seven of this act, and if a substituted certi ficate or paper bo tiled after tho last day for filing tho original certificate or paper, objections must bo -mado within four days after the filing, and no objections as to form or conformity to law shall bo received after tho time sot fir printing'thc ballots. As soon its any substituted candi date shall havo been duly nominated hisnamo shall bo substituted by the proper officers in tho place of that of the candulato who has died or with drawn, so far as time may allow, or in case a substituted nomination bo filed with or transmitted to the county enmmissoners or township or borough auditors after tho ballots have been printed, tho said commissioners or auditors shall pivparo and distribute with tho ballots suitable slips of paper bearing tho substituted name, toget her with the title of tho office and hav ing adhesivo paste upon th reverse side, which shall bo oll'cred to each voter with the regular ballot, and may bo affixed thereto. Sec. 13. The county commissioners of each county, sliall cause al! the bal lots t bo used therein to be printed, except for elections of officers of town ships and boroughs, and election olli cers and school directors iii tho same, the ballots for which shall bo printed and distributed by the auditors, who shall certify tho cost of uch printing and distribution to tlio county com missioners for payment as part of a county election expenses. The said commisioners and auditors shall as certain tho offices to bo filled and shall bo responsible frr tho accurate printing of the ballots, in accordance with this act, and for the safe keeping of the same while in their possession or that of their subordinates or agents. HOW BALLOTS AUK lMtlNTEI). Sec. 14. The face of every ballot which shall bo printed in accordance with tire provisions of this act shall contain tho names and residences of all candidates whose nomination for any ofiico specified in the ballot shall have been duly made, except such as may have died or withdrawn. Tho names of candidates shall be presented in the following manner and order: In the caso of certificates of nomina tions mado by a convention of dele gates, or othcrwiso ns described in sec tion two, representing a political party which at the election next pre ceding polled at least 3 per centum of the highest cntiro voto cast in the State or electoral district or division thereof for which such nominations arc made, as described in section two, the names of all the candidates so nominated by such political party shall be arranged iu groups as presented in tho several certificates of nomination under the designation of the office with the party descriptive words or politi cal appellation at tho head of each group. Such groups shall be printe.l in tho order of tho voto polled by each political party at the last preceding election, beginning with tho party which secured the highest vot. In all other cases of nomination b;r nomina tion papers tho names of the candi dates for each office shall be arranged under the designation of the ollico in Alphabetical order according to the surnames. There shall be left at the end of the list of candidates for each different office (or under the title of the office itself for which an election is to be held in case there be no candidates legally nominated therefor) as many blank spacct as there are persons to be elected to such office in which the voter may insert the namo of any per son whoso name is not printed on the ballot for whom he desires Jo vote as candidate for such office, and such in sertion shall count as a vote without the cross murk (x) hereinafter men tioned. Whenever the approval of a constitutional amendment or other question is submitted to the vote ot the people such questions shall be printed upon the ballot utter the list of candidates. THE ISE OK THE PENCIL. The ballot sliall be so printed to as givo to each voter a clear opportunity to designate hU choice of candi dates by a erossmark (x) in a sufficient margin ut the right of the name el'etteh candidate, ami iu like manner his ans wer to the questions submitted, and on the ballot may be printed instructions how to mark, and such words us will aid the voter to do this as "vote for one," "vote for three," "yes," "no," and the like, provided that a voter may designate his choice of ull the candi dates of a political party or group by no erossmark in the margin to the right of the party name or political designation of such group, ami such murk shall he equivalent to a murk against every name in the group. Sec. 13. All the 1 ailots itsed at the same voting place at any election shall be alike and shall be at least six inches long nnd four inches wide; they shall bo printed with the same kind or kinds of typo (which shall not be smaller than the size known as "bre vier" or ''eight-point body") upon whito paper without any impression or mark to distinguish one from an other except as expressly authorized herein or by the constitution of tins Commonwealth. Each-ballot shall be attached to a stub or counterfoil, and nil tho ballots' for the same voting place sliall bo bound together in con venient numbers in books in such man ner that each ballot may bo detached und removed separately. A diagonal folding lino shall be printed on tho right hand upper cor ner of the back of each ballot, and the said corner shall bo edged with adhes ivo paste so that the corner, when fold ed at the folding line, can be securely fastened down over the number now required by the constitution of this Commonwealth so that the said num ber cannot be seen without unfasten ing or cutting open the part so fasten ed down. The top of each ballot sliall have a margin of equal size on both back and face and the s i id folding line shall be upon this margin, but nothing else shall bo printed thereon except instructions how to mark, pro vided, that if at any time the s ' id con stitute i shall cease to require ballots to be numbered the foregoing require ments as to the folding-line, the mar gin and the adhesive pasto sliall de void. WHAT TMK HM.tiT CONTAINS. On the back of each ballot, or on the right hand side of the buck if the b illot is printed in two columns, ibon'shall he printed as a caption "official ballot for," followed by the do--ignatioii of the voting place for which llie ballot is prepare 1, the d ue of the elec tion and a fac simile of the signatures of the county comniis.-iotH'rs of the respective coimtio who have caused the ballots to be printed, unless they have been printed by township or borough auditors. A record of tho number of b illots printed and furnished to ceh voting place shall be kept and preserved by the county commissioner of the several counties, when it it shown bv affidavit that mistake or omission has oc curred in the publication of names onles eription of candidates or iu the printout of the ballots, the court of common pleas of the district or county or any judge thereof may, upon the application of any qualified elector ci the district or county, require the county commissioners to correct the mistake or omission or to show cause why they should not. Fee. 10. The county commissioners of each county shall provide' for each election dis trict ill which an election is to be held, ex cept in elections for township and borough otliees, two sets of such ballots each (if not less than for every fid and fraction of M voters therein ns contained up in the assess or's list. They shall also prepare full in struct iocs for the guidance of voters us to ob taining ballots, as to the manner ol marking them and the method of (.Mining assistance, and as to obtaining new ballots in place of those accidentally spoiled, and they shall ri-sse.-ti vely cause the same, together with topic of sections HI to ltd Inclusive of this act. to be printed in large clear type on sep arate cards to bo called ca-dt of instruction. THE SPECIMEN 1IAI.LOTS. They sliall also cause to bo printed on tinted piper and without the facsimile in dorsements an equal number of copies of the form of the ballot provided f r each voting place at each election therein, which shall be called specimen ballots, and at on-i election thev shall furnish to each Toting place, to gether with the ballots to be used there.asuf tieient number of curds of instruction ami siiecimen ballots for me, as required m sec tion 21 of this act. They shall also provide for each election district at every election therein two copies of the assessor's lists of voters, and shall deliver tlio samo ns such lists urc now delivered. one copy to be called the "ballot cheek list" for the inspectors in charge of the hallo's, and the other copy to be called thu voting "check list" to tie used in marking the names of those who have voted and the numbers of their ballots us now required bv law. Si: . 17. The two sets of ballots, together with tho specimen ballot and cards of in struction printed by the county commission, era us herein provided, shall he packed by them in sparate pealed packages with mark on the out-ide clearly designating the elect ion districts for which they are intended and the number of ballots of eae'.i kind en closed. Thev shall then be sent by the county cointulsioners of the respective counties sep arately and at difl'oran! time, or by dilb r int methods, to the judges of election at the soveid voting places so as to be icceived by them, one set on tho Saturday before the day ot election and the other set on the Monday Ir.Tore tho day of elec tion. KKCKII'TS Foil THE 1IALI.OTS. The rep'live j'.-dge of election sliall, on delivery to them of such package', return receipt' therefore to thecomniUsionors, who shall keep a record of the tinio w hen and the manner in w hich tho several packages are snt and shall preserve for the period of one year the receipts of i In- sa'd judies i'f elec tion. Kor elections of ollicers of townships and borough and of election ollio. ri and school director in the same the auditor shall provide tor each election district 7", bal lots for every it and fraction of .'l voters on the assessor's list and nil equal number of specimen ballots, and shall obtain from the coiiutv ooinniisMouois the re pii-ite cards of instruction, which shall be delivered with the hallotsto the judges.,!' election the day before theday of election. Section J. In c ase (h b illot to be fur nished to eliv voting place in ueeord.uie-j with the provisions of this net shall tail for mi v rc.i-oii to l; duly delivered, or in ease alter delivery thev shall be destroyed or stolen. H shall lie tho duly of th.' j 'dg ' e'eelioii of such voting place to i iihu other ballots to I'O prepared substantially iu thu form of tho hallo's so waul ing, uicl upon roe ipt of mic'i other ballots from htm, ii'Voinpaiiic I bv a statement under ontli that the same have been so prepar 'd ntel turinsi.e-t by him, and that the ori.' lull ballots lun so faile t to be received or have I, en so i!,-..lt;oys t.i stolen, the elec'ion oll'e'i rs shall eau-e the ballots so sllbstl' tiled to be u-cd in lieu of tin: bu lo:s wanting us uhoie. It sh ill l e tho duty of tlio couuly coiiiuiissioiots ot p.irli county to mail complete srfclmrns of the ballot and other in ssnry paper by registered letter t the judge of election of each election district ut least four dav he ore the election to i liable him to comply with tho direction of this section. THE VOTINfl ROOMS. Sec. Hi. The county commissioner of each county nhall provide for each election dis tr.ct therein at. each election n room large enough to be lilted up with voting shelves find a guard rail, a hereinafter provided. If in any district no such room can nc rented or ot herwisc obtained, the snid commission er shall eatife to be constructed for such dis trict a temporary room of ndcniat1 size to b used ns a voting room : thev sliall nlsorause all the sanl room to he suitably provided with heat ami li;'lit nnd w ith n ! snTlieient nuniher of voting shelves or compartments ut or in which voters may conveniently ni. irk their ballot, so that in the marking thereof Uwy limy be screened from the ob servation of others, and a guard-rail shall be so constructed and placed that only such persons as are ins;desaid. rail can approach w ithin six feet of the ballot box nnd of such voting shelves or compartments. The ar rangement shall he such that neither the ballot bo; nor thevoting hiMithsshall hehid den from viesr of those just outside the said giiard-rnil. Th number of such voting shelvesor compartments shall not be le.ss than one for every . "si immes on the assessor's lists, but shall not in ony caso he les t'lan three for the voters qualified to vote nt such voting place. No pisrson other than elec tion ollieeM admitted, as her inaf or provi ded, sbnll bu permitted w ithin the said nil except by authority of the election otiicers for the purpose of keeping order anil enforc ing the law. llaeli voting shelf or compart ment shall be kept provided with proper supplies and conveniences for marking the ballots. WHO PAYS THE HILL. Sec. 20. To provide for the cost of said shelve or compartn. cuts and guard rails ill the vear Is'.iJ the secretary of the common wealth, thesicri'tary of internal affairs and the auditor general shall bo and they are hereby constituted a board to decide upon a pattern of the said shelves or compartments nnil a pattern of the said giiari,-rails and Ulioii the material to he used for them and stieh other furniture und iipp.irutu a may be necessary, and to lix a limit of cost of th! "same per shell (r com partment a"d ter lineal foot of rail, and the said hoard shall, within two months after the pa-sage of (his net, notify tho com missioners ol'ihe rosH'etive counties ol the pattern adopted and of the limit ot cost, and the said commissioner, after they hnve pro vided the said shelves or compartments and guard rails, shall scud to the auditor general of the imonwealth a statement of the voting plat es jn the county, naming them, ami if tht number of shelves or compart ments provided for oicli according to the pattern Adopted, and of thee st of tU? sitae, not exceeding the limit to be ll.trl ns nfore said, which statement shall be signed bv tile said commissioners, verified by the affidavit of one o ft hem, and approved by the county controller or auditors, tin receipt of tho said statement the auditor general shalldraw w arrants upon the treasury of the Common wealth in favor of the treasurers of I he coun ties from which the said statements shall have been roc ? v.'d l'orthes iti s therein statid to be due, ami t lie Suite treasurer is hereby directed to pav the said warrants. The said shelves or c imp irtments ami guard rails shall therealter be the prop-rly of the re spective comities, anil no further allowance sliall bo made to the counties by the auditor general for providing the same. TO KM.HIIITES THE VOTE!!. Sec. 'J I. At the opening of the pool in each voting place, the seal of one package shall be publicly broken, und the said package shall be opened by the jtidg'of elections. Theeirdsol Instruction shall ho immediately posted at or in each voting shelf or compartment provided in accord since with this act for the marking of the ballots, and not less than three such card snd not less than rive specimen ballots, sliall he immediately posted in or about tho vot ing room, outside the guard rail, a-id such cards and specimen ballots shall be given to anv voter, ut his request. The second set of ballots shall lie retained unopened by the re spictive judges of election until they are needed for the purposes of voting, Sec. JJ. Any i rson d siring to vote shall give hi niune'iiud residence to one ol the election ollicers in charge of the ballot, who shall thereupon nnnoiinci thesanicin a loud i.sid district tone of voice, nnd if such name is found upon the ballot check list by the in spector or clerks in eh irgo thereof bo sliall likewise re-at the said inline, ami the voter shall he ullowed to enter the space enclosed by the guard-rail, unless his right to vote be challenged. No person whos name is not on the said list, or whose right to vote shall be challenged bv a qualilb'd eitiz'ii shall he admitted w iibiii said guard-rail until he has established his right to vote in the manner now provided by law. and Ins name, it not on the check-list, shall then bo added to both lists. As soon as a voter is adintted within the rail, the election ollicer having charge of the ballots shall doUch n ballot from iliestub and gUc it to the said Miter, but shall lirst fold it so thut wonts printed on the back and outside us provoded in sec tion loof this net, shall he I he only word ing visible, and no ballot shall be voted unliw. folded in the same manner. Not more than one ballot shall be given to a voter except as provided in section - of this act. NO HECOIIDS llf Nl MIIKItS. As soon as n voter received a ballot the lot tor "H" shall'he marked against In nam on the margin of the ballot clic k-list, but no record ot the number of the ballots shall be made on the said lits. besides theolc v lion ollicers und such siiiktvisois a are authorized bv the laws of the I lilted State or overseers appointed by tbo courts ot this Conitnonwi a'th not more lhaii four voter in execs of tho number of voting shelve or compartment ptovided sliall be allowed n said enclosed spa -e ut one time. Sec "It. t'ti receipt ol his ballot the voter shall forthwith and without leaving the soaco enclosed bv tho guard rail retire I c of the voting shelves or compartments, mid shall prepare hi" ballot by marking hi the. a-.or .pri no m irgiu or pine ' a cross 1 x I op . , site the party, namo or political desig nation of a groiql of . audi laic, or opposite the natneof tho candidate id Ins choice lor each utile to be Idled, or by inserting III the b'l ink spa e pr.ivid. d lli-reloV any nam. t already on th- ballot, and in ease ot u uues li, in submitted P. the vote ol the people by marking in lb" appropriate margin or place u cross ( x I against the answer which he de s ret to give, before leaving the votings he I or compartment the vol r shall told Ins bal lot wuhout displuvlngthe mark thereon in the same way it '.va lold-d when received by him, and be shall keep the same so f ,lded until be has voted. ller leaving the voting shelf and beb.re leaving I' e enclosed spice be snail gue bu Icllot to the diction "Hi er 111 ebaive ol I he 1,-iHot box wboshall. without uiiloldiii; tin ballot, number it as required by the cotisii l iuoii of this t oiiiiuoiiweallh, placing the s ,id number in the right baud upper corner ,' t'ie be k ol the ballot immediately to the .'ft of the lolling line print, d there,,!, ui. j ov here else, and shall t hen at once told the corner at the folding line and Listen it securely down with tucadhcsivojo so ui
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