Extracts from Virginia Election Laws: Also the Electoral Boards, and Registration Laws, 1890State of Virginia, 1890 - 21 páginas |
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abstracts of votes aforesaid amended and re-enacted Assembly of Virginia canvass certificates of election changes his place city and county clerks of election Code of Virginia commissioners Commonwealth COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA confined in jail constable counties and cities county or city county or corporation court or judge days of registration duty eighteen hundred election is held entitled to vote fail to attend February 25 fight a duel fined not exceeding fined not less former election district giving his vote Governor highest number hundred and eighty-seven hustings court including the regular judge or clerk judge or judges judges and clerks judges of election number of ballots number of names number of votes offer to vote persons voted place of voting poll-books punished.-If receive registration books registration-book regular days removed section one hundred take and subscribe therein thereof thirty days tion tration books twelve months United States army voting-place written or printed
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Página 9 - You do swear that you are a citizen of the United States, that you are twenty-one years of age, that you have resided in this state...
Página 7 - ... written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, the names of the persons for whom the elector intends to vote, and shall designate the office to which each person so named is intended by him to be chosen ; but no ballot shall contain a greater number of names of persons designated to any office than there are persons to be chosen at the election to fill such office.
Página 9 - If two or more separate ballots are found so folded together as to present the appearance of a single ballot, they must be laid aside until the count of the ballots is completed; then, if...
Página 18 - ... take and subscribe before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths in his county, the constitutional oath of office, and...
Página 10 - Whenever a ballot shall contain a greater number of names for any one office than the number of persons required to fill that office, it shall be deemed fraudulent as to the whole of the names for that office...
Página 12 - Disturbance of election ; how prevented.— If any person conduct himself in a noisy, riotous, or tumultuous manner at or about the polls, so as to disturb the election or insult or abuse a judge or...
Página 6 - I, AB, do solemnly swear, (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I will perform the duties of judge, (or clerk, as the case may be,) according to law and the best of my ability; that I will studiously endeavor to prevent fraud, deceit and abuse, in conducting the same.
Página 13 - Any person who shall furnish an elector who cannot read with a ticket, informing him that it contains a name or names different from those which are written or printed thereon, with...
Página 10 - Who to receive certificates of election; how tie determined. -—In all elections for the choice of any officer, unless it is otherwise expressly provided, the person having the highest number of votes for any office shall be deemed to have been elected to...
Página 5 - No person who, while a citizen of this state, has, since the adoption of this constitution, fought a duel with a deadly weapon, sent or accepted a challenge to fight a duel with a deadly weapon, either within or beyond the boundaries of this state, or knowingly conveyed a challenge, or aided or assisted in any manner in fighting a duel, shall be allowed to vote or hold any office of honor, profit or trust, under this constitution.