isters to record ers or city clerks. Delivery of reg. [Number to be written in figures and words]. Such registers shall, before ten (10) o'clock in the forenoon of the next day, be deposited by one of said board in the office of the city clerk or recorder, whose duty it shall be to safely keep the same. Second session of registration board. SEC. 14. On Tuesday, two (2) weeks preceding any general election, and on the thirteenth (13th) day preceding any special election, said board of registration shall again meet at the same place as before, and remain in public ses sion from nine (9) o'clock in the forenoon until nine (9) o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of registering all qualified voters whose names are not yet registered. They shall obtain from the city clerk or recorder and use the same registers as on the first day. The same forms shall be observed in regard to registration as were required upon the first day of registration. At the end of each day's registration the register shall be compared and made to agree, and shall be signed as at the first day's registration, and similar certificates attached thereto. It shall be the duty of the clerks of election composing said board, during the session of that day and before the board adjourns, to make a copy of all the names upon such registers, together with the addresses as indicated in such registers. Immediately after its completion, said copy shall be conspicuously posted up outside the place of registration, with a notice of the time when such board of registration will meet for a completion and final correction of its registers, and shall be accessible to any elector who may desire to examine or Return of regis copy the same. The registers shall be returned by one (1) of said board to the office of the city clerk or recorder before ten (10) o'clock in the forenoon of the day succeeding the day of registration. List of electors to be posted. ters to clerks, etc. Last day's ses tion SEC. 15. On the last Tuesday preceding the day of any sion of registra- general election and on the day one (1) week preceding any special election, said board of registration shall again meet at the same place for the completion and final correction of said registers. They shall again obtain the same registers before used from the city clerk or recorder's office, and shall be in session from twelve (12) o'clock noon until nine (9) o'clock in the afternoon. Any qualified elector not already registered may apply to said board to have his name inserted in said register; the same rule for registration required on previous days shall be observed registers of per- by the board. It shall be the duty of said board to erase from the registers the name of any person inserted therein who shall be proven by the oath of two (2) qualified electors of such district, to the satisfaction of the board, to be in any Final posting of Way disqualified to vote in such district at the ensuing election. At the end of the session the registers shall be again compared and be made to agree and correspond, and shall be signed and certified by the board as before, and deposited in the city clerk or recorder's office; before the said Erasure from sons proven not qualified. names of elec tors. board adjourn or separate they shall prepare a copy of all the names and their respective addresses appearing upon such registers, and post the same conspicuously forthwith outside the place of registration. Provided, That in all cities of forty thousand (40,000) inhabitants and upwards, there shall be no session of said board of registration on the last Tuesday preceding the day of any general election, but in lieu thereof there shall be a session of said board of registration on the second (2d) Saturday preceding the day of any general election, and another session on the last Wednesday preceding the day of any general election; and all provisions of this section, including hours and place of meeting, shall apply and be of full force and effect as to each of said sessions of said board of registration, save as to the day for holding the same above excepted. SEC. 16. When it shall appear by the answer or affidavit of the applicant for registration, or shall be known to the board of registry, that the applicant has or is registered in another election district in the same city than the one at which he makes his application, the board shall not enter his name in said register until a certificate of removal is procured from the board of such other district, which may be in the following form: "This is to certify that the name of..........., heretofore residing at..........., in this election district, has been by us, the board of registry of this district, stricken from the registration of this precinct at his request, upon his affidavit of removal. The following entries appear upon the register of this election district concerning him [add entries in various columns of register]. Signed by the board of registry of former place of registration." Except as hereinafter provided, the above certificate shall be granted by such board upon, and only upon, the applicant for registry making and subscribing the fol- · lowing affidavit, which shall be sworn to before such board, or before the board in the district to which the removal is to be made, and if made before the latter board, upon being presented to the former, such affidavit shall warrant such former board in issuing the above certificate to the bearer. "I, .., do solemnly swear [or affirm] that I now reside at [street and number], in ward number in the city of ...; that I am duly entered as a qualified voter in the registers of the ...... district, in the ....... ward, of said city, as residing at number...... [street or avenue]; that I have removed from the last mentioned residence, and do hereby request the proper entry and record to be made, and that my name be erased from the registers of the last mentioned district, and a certificate of removal furnished me." If a person remove from one place in a district to another place in the same district, his vote shall not be received at any election unless the registers are changed as herein provided. Provided, That whenever a "registry oath of an absent per ........ Days of registration in cities of habitants. over 40,000 in Removal certifi cate in cities inhabitants. under 40,000 Affidavit of elector for removal certificate. Affidavit for removal certificate goes with the judge's certificate. Every voter must be registered. Restricting certain sections. Delivery of reg isters to the judges of election. lot boxes and ballots. son," specified in section twelve (12), is presented to the affidavit presented by SEC. 17. The judges in the district from which the removal in the case specified in the proviso to the last section is made shall not retain the affidavit so presented to them, but it, together with the certificate of removal, shall be deposited with the judges of election in the district to which the removal is made. SEC. 18. The vote of no person whose name does not appear in said register as a qualified voter shall be received by the judges at any election, except the vote of a person whose name was registered and erased as provided in section fifteen (15), and who takes the oath as required by section sixty (60) of this act. SEC. 19. Sections eleven (11), twelve (12), sixteen (16), seventeen (17) and eighteen (18) of this act, relating to registry, shall have no application except in cities containing over twelve thousand (12,000) inhabitants, and sections thirteen (13), fourteen (14) and fifteen (15) only such as is specified in section seven (7) of this act. GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLYING TO ALL ELECTION DIS- SEC. 20. Opening Polls.-On the day preceding any election the judges of election shall procure the registers provided for in this act from the office of the official with whom they are required to be deposited, one being proDelivery of bal- cured by a judge representing one of the two leading political parties, and the other by a judge representing another leading political party; the ballot boxes and the ballots shall be delivered by the officer in whose custody they are to the judges of election in the respective districts, also the keys of such boxes and the poll books and all stationery and material necessary to such election. Such judges and clerks shall be held responsible for the safe keeping of said registers and ballots unaltered, as provided in section one hundred and eight (108) of this act, and shall have all of said ballots, boxes, registers, poll books, printed instruction and materials at the polling places in which they are the judges and clerks at the hour of the opening on the day of elections. voting. SEC. 21. The judges of election, or one of them, imme- Examining baldiately before the proclamation is made of the opening of lot boxes before the polls, shall open the ballot boxes in the presence of the people there assembled, and turn them upside down, so as to empty them of anything that is in them, and then lock them, and the key thereof shall be delivered to one of the judges, and the said boxes shall not be reopened until for the purpose of counting the ballots therein at the close of the polls; and the judges forthwith shall proclaim that the polls are open. Written notice of the hour of closing the polls shall be conspicuously posted up outside the polling place. SEC. 22. The judges of election may appoint one (1) or more special constables to attend each place of election. It shall be the duty of the sheriff, constable or special constable to keep the surroundings of the polls quiet and orderly, and during voting hours to allow no person to approach within six (6) feet of the ballot boxes, or to pass behind the railing, or within six (6) feet of the booth or ballot compartments hereinafter provided for, except electors engaged in receiving, preparing or depositing their ballots, without permission of the judges of election. If any of the above named officers neglect to perform that duty, then the judges of election shall swear in enough private citizens to enforce order, who shall have power, as constables or conservators of peace, to make arrests for breach of Written notice of hours of clos ing to be posted. Special constables authorized. the peace. And any police officer or constable attending Arrest of disorthe election may call to his aid a sufficient number of citi- derly persons. zens to arrest any disorderly person or suppress any riot or disorder during the election. Whoever conducts himself in a riotous or disorderly manner at any election, and persists in such conduct after being warned to desist, may be arrested without warrant; Provided, that no police officer shall remain within the voting room unless he shall be ordered to do so by the judges of election, and shall in no manner interfere with or seek to influence any voter, under the penalty hereafter provided. vote where he resides. SEC. 23. No elector shall vote except in the district in Elector must which he actually resides. SEC. 24. The only method of voting at any election shall Form of voting. be by ballot, and all ballots hereafter voted at any election in the state of Minnesota shall be printed as hereafter provided. SEC. 25. Ballots.-There shall be one (1) plain white ballot, upon which shall be printed the names of all candi dates for office who are to be voted for throughout the entire state, all amendments to the constitution, and all other questions or propositions that are to be submitted to the electors throughout the state. If the names of the candidates for presidential electors make a ballot too long for convenience, they may be printed upon a separate white ballot. White ballots for state officers, etc. SEC. 26. There shall be one (1) ballot tinted red, upon which shall be printed the names of all candidates for office which are to be voted for in any city or municipality at a city or municipal election for city or municipal officers; and also all questions or propositions that are to be submitted to the electors of such city or municipality, and pertain to the same only. SEC. 27. There shall be one (1) ballot tinted blue, upon which shall be printed the names of all candidates for office other than those specified in the two (2) preceding sections, and also all questions or propositions to be submitted to the electors which are not properly to be placed upon the ballots specified in the two preceding sections. SEC. 28. Printing of Ballots.—The plain white ballots shall be printed by the secretary of state, and bound in blocks of one hundred (100) ballots to the block, the expense whereof shall be defrayed from the state treasury, and shall by the secretary of state be distributed to the auditors of the different counties in such quantities as shall be necessary to enable the city, village or township clerks to fully comply with the provisions of section thirty-one (31) of this act; such ballots to be furnished the county auditors at least eighteen (18) days before election, and a receipt, stating the number of ballots and the date on which they were received, shall be taken therefor. On the twenty-seventh (27th) day before election a sample ballot shall be printed and placed on file for examination. SEC. 29. The ballots tinted blue shall be printed by the county auditor of each county, and bound in blocks of one hundred (100) ballots to the block, the expense whereof shall be defrayed from the county treasury; and shall be distributed by the county auditor, together with the ballots received from the state auditor, to city, village and township clerks within his county in such quantities as shall be necessary to enable such clerks to fully comply with the provisions of section thirty-one (31) of this act; such ballots to be furnished such clerks at least eight (8) days before election, and receipts, stating the number and color of ballots and the date on which they were received, shall be taken therefor. On the tenth (10th) day before election a sample ballot shall be printed and placed on file for examination. SEC. 30. The ballots tinted red shall be printed by the city clerk or recorder and bound in blocks of one hundred (100) ballots to the block, the expense whereof shall be defrayed from the city treasury; and shall, together with white and blue ballots, and printed instructions hereinafter provided for, be distributed by the city clerk to the judges of election for each polling place, and receipts, stating the number and color of ballots and the date on which they were received, shall be taken therefor. On the seventh (7th) day before election a sample ballot shall be printed and placed on file for examination. |