Election Laws1906 - Election law - 119 pages |
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Page 134 - The chairman of the board of inspectors shall, under the scrutiny of an inspector of a different political party, in the order of the offices as their titles are arranged on the machine, read and announce in distinct tones the...
Page 197 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 118 - Senate, shall appoint three persons, not more than two of whom shall belong to the same political party, who shall be styled a "State Board of Arbitration...
Page 9 - ... be able to read in the English language any article of the constitution or any section of the statutes of this state...
Page 125 - The room in which the election is held shall have a railing separating the part of the room to be occupied by the election officials and the machine from the part of the room adjacent to the entrance thereof.
Page 28 - Sundays and legal holidays, from nine o'clock in the forenoon until five o'clock in the afternoon, except on Saturdays, when they may be closed at twelve o'clock, noon.
Page 133 - ... of names of persons not in nomination, or wholly of names of persons not in nomination by any party. Such irregular ballot shall be deposited, written or affixed in or upon the receptacle or device provided on the machine for that purpose.
Page 96 - ... upon conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten nor more than thirty days.
Page 8 - Every white male citizen of the United States, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years...
Page 197 - Any woman who is now or may hereafter be married to a citizen of the United States, and who might herself be lawfully naturalized, shall be deemed a citizen.