of State to keep paper for tickets. 1188. The Secretary of State must provide and Secretary keep constantly on hand a sufficient quantity of paper, uniform in color, weight, texture, and appearance, without marks of any kind thereon, to supply the demand for paper for tickets. supply such any person cation. 1189. He must, upon payment of the cost thereof Must and ten per cent profit, furnish such paper to every paper to person who may apply therefor and who makes and on applifiles with him an affidavit that such paper is to be used in providing tickets to be used as ballots at any election next to ensue. 1190. The sum collected by him for paper so sold must be paid into the State Treasury; and ten per cent of such sum must be credited to a Fund to be kept in the Treasury, and known as the "Election Reward Fund." Disposition collected of money from sale of paper. ballot. 1191. No ticket must be used at any election, or Form of circulated on the day of election, unless: 1. It is written or printed on paper furnished by the Secretary of State, or upon paper in every respect precisely like such paper; 2. It is four inches in width and twelve inches in length, or within one eighth of an inch of such size; 3. If printed, the names of the persons voted for and the office designated are printed in black ink and in long primer capitals-the name of the office in small capitals, and of the person in large capitalsand both without spaces, except between the different words or initials in each line; 4. If printed, the same margin is left above the printed matter as below it, and the side margins are equal in size; 5. If printed, the lines are straight, and the matter single leaded; 6. If written, the matter is so written that no sign thereof appears when the paper is folded; and Ballots not to be given 7. It is free from every mark, character, or device or thing that would enable any person to distinguish it by the back, or, when folded; from any other legal ticket or ballot. 1192. No ticket or ballot must, on the day of to any per election, be given or delivered to or received by any son within certain limits. Tickets and ballots not to be folded or unfolded within certain limits. Contents of tickets or to be. exhibited person, except the Inspector, or a Judge acting as Inspector, within one hundred feet of the polling place. 1193. No person must, on the day of election, fold any ticket or unfold any ballot which he intends to use in voting, within one hundred feet of the polling place. 1194. No person must, on the day of election, ballots not within one hundred feet of the polling place, exhibit to another, in any manner by which the contents. thereof may become known, any ticket or ballot which he intends to use in voting. within certain limits. Persons not to be asked contents of ticket or ballot. 1195. No person must, on the day of election, to disclose within one hundred feet of the polling place, request another person to exhibit or disclose the contents of any ticket or ballot which such other person intends to use in voting. Ballots to have no marks on outside. Ballot to have no marks by which it can be told who voted it. 1196. No ballot must be used at any election, or circulated on the day of any election, having any mark or thing on the back or outside thereof whereby it might be distinguished from any other ballot legally used on the same day. 1197. No ballot or 'ticket must be used or circulated on the day of any election, having any mark or thing thereon by or from which it can be ascertained what persons, or what class of persons, or at what time in the day such ballot was voted or used. how to be folded. 1198. Every ticket, when used as a ballot, must Tickets, be folded crosswise four times from the center, so as to make the ballot three fourths of one inch in size, and must be pressed flat. Tickets not to be to indicate their contents. 1199. No ticket must be folded in a manner to folded so as indicate its contents when used as a ballot. Tickets folded 1200. If in the ballot box two tickets are found folded together in the form of a ballot, they must both together be rejected. 1201. No ballot or part thereof must be rejected by reason of any obscurity therein in relation to the name of the person voted for or the designation of the office, if the Board, from an inspection of the ballot, can determine the person voted for and the office intended. 1202. If the names of more persons are designated on any ballot found in the ballot box for the same office than are to be chosen for such office, then, except in the cases provided for in the next section, all the names designated for such offices must be rejected, and the fact of such rejection, and the reasons therefor, must at the time of such rejection be noted on the ballot and signed by a majority of the Election Board. 1203. When upon a ballot found in any ballot box a printed name and a name written with ink or with pencil appears, and there are not so many persons to be chosen for the office, the printed name must be rejected and the written one counted, and the fact must at the time be noted on the back of the ballot, and such note must be signed by a majority of the Election Board. 1204. When upon a ballot found in any ballot box a name has been erased and another substituted there 26*-VOL. I. must be rejected. not to be Ballots rejected for in the office. obscurity name of person or When more designated thosen, persons are for an office are ballot to that extent rejected. must be Written names for and printed the same office, which to be rejected. Printed Two votes on same same for, in any other manner than by the use of a lead pencil or common writing ink, the substituted name must be rejected, and the name erased, if it can be ascertained from an inspection of the ballot, must be counted, and the fact thereof must be noted upon the ballot, and such note must be signed by a majority of the Election Board. 1205. If a ballot is found in any ballot box conballot for taining the name of the person and the office for which he is designated, or either, two or more times, it must not for that reason be rejected; it must be counted as one ballot. person must be counted as one. Marked ballots to 1206. When a ballot found in any ballot box be rejected. bears upon the outside thereof any impression, device, color, or thing, or is folded in a manner designed to distinguish such ballot from other legal ballots deposited therein, it must, with all its contents, be rejected. Same. Ballots not conforming to require 1207. When a ballot found in any ballot box bears upon it any impression, device, color, or thing, or is folded in a manner intended to designate or impart knowledge of the person who voted such ballot, it must with all its contents be rejected. 1208. When a ballot found in any ballot box does not conform to the requirements of Section 1191, it be rejected. must, with all its contents, be rejected. ments of law must Rejected ballots to 1209. Whenever the Board of Election rejects a be indorsed ballot, it must at the time of such rejection cause to be made thereon and signed by a majority of the Board an indorsement of such rejection and of the causes thereof. Rejected 1210. All rejected ballots must be preserved and preserved. returned in the same manner as other ballots. ballots must be 1211. Whenever a question arises in the Board as to the legality of a ballot, or any part thereof, and the Board decide in favor of the legality, such action, together with a concise statement of the facts that gave rise to the objection, must be indorsed upon the ballot, and signed by a majority of the Board. Ballots not rejected but mndorsed objected to Ballots not in compli ance with law not 1212. The Board must refuse to receive or to allow to be deposited in the ballot box any ballot offered if it is apparent that it is not in compliance with the to be provisions of this Chapter. received. CHAPTER IX. VOTING AND CHALLENGES. SECTION 1224. Voting, when to commence and continue. 1225. Manner of voting. 1226. Same. 1227. Same. 1228. Record that person has voted, how kept. 1230. Grounds of challenge. 1231. Proceedings on challenge for want of identity. 1235. Same, on ground of conviction of a felony. 1237. Same. 1238. If person refuses to be sworn, vote to be rejected. 1239. Rules for the determination of questions of residence. 1241. Rules must be read, if requested. 1242. Proceedings upon determination of challenge. 1243. List of challenges to be kept. 1224. Voting may commence as soon as the polls are opened, and may be continued during all the time the polls remain open. Voting, commence when to and continue. voting. 1225. The person offering to vote must hand his Manner of ballot to the Inspector, or to one of the Judges acting |