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THE DAWSON NEWS
New System of Voting Now Effective in Terrell County Elections
Adoption by the Grand Jury
Of the Australian Ballot
Law Revolutionizes the
Method of Holding Elec
tions. Machinery Compli
cated and Expensive.
All eclections in Terrell county in
the future will be quite different from
those of the past. Two successive
grand juries having recommended its
adoption of Australian ballot sys
(em will prevail hereafter. The change
means a revolution in the holding of
clections, and for the information of
its rcaders The Dawson News prints
below the law as passed by the Geor
gia legislature:
Gection 1. That from and after Jan
wary 1, 1924, ‘'whenever any election,
whether general, special or primary,
state, county, municipal, city, town or
village, or any election to determine
any matter or question which is or
may be referred to the vote of the peo
ple of the state, of a county or of a
citv, town or village or any election
of any kind or character is to be held
it shall be the duty of the Ordinary
of cach county at the expense of the
county, or in a case of a purely mu
nicipal election at the expense of the
municipality, to provide at each poll
ing place a private room or rooms,
2 booth or booths, or an enclosure or
enclosures, with such compartments
therein as may be necessary to ac
commodate the persons qualified to
vote at such polling places, and shall
furnish each compartment with a shelf
or table for the convenience of the
electors in the preparation of their
ballots; each booth or compartment
shall be so arranged that it will be
impossible for one elector at a shelf
or table in one compartment, or gny
one eclse, to see an elector at a shelf
or table in another compartment in
the act of making his ballot. Each
voting shelf or table shall be kept sup
plied with conveniences for marking
the ballots. No person or persons,
other than the voter himself, while oc
cupving the booth or while in the im
mediate act of voting shall come with
in ten feet of said booth or booths
while said polls are open. This section
chall not apply to any of the officers
in charge of holding said election.
NEW KIND OF BALLOTS.
Sec. 2. In all primary elections it
shall be the duty of the county, or
¢ty executive committee, or other
party authority of the political party
holding the primary election, to pro
vide official ballots for all such elec
tions, with the names of all candi
dates, who have properly qualified in
accordance with the rules of such par
ty, printed thereon; such names to be
arranged upon said ballots in alpha
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betical order as to candidates for the
same office, said ballots to be number
ed consecutively and bound together
in blocks or pads, in such manner that
each ballot may be detached and re
moved separtely, Each ballot shall
have attached at the top thereof a
sheet, which may be easily detached,
with a blank space for the name of
the voter, and printed thereon a letter
of the alphabet or some other desig
nation and a number, and the same
designation and number shall be
printed on the ballots used at the va
rious polling places, so that the bal
lots at no two polling places, in the
same county, shall bear the same des
ignation, and so that all the ballots
shall be so arranged that the printed
designation and number on the stub
and on the ballot shall appear on the
reverse side of the ballot, so that the
voter after he has prepared his bal
lot may fold the same and, after fold
ing, the manager may examine -and
compare the number and designation
on the sheet bearing the name of the
particular voter without exposing, in
specting or disclosing the face of the
ballot itself.
On the ballot itself shall be printed
such words as will enable the voter to
express his choice, such as “vote for
one,” “vote for two,” and the like;
and the voter or elector shall erase,
mark out or cancel the name or names
of the candidate or candidates for
whom he does not wish to vote. If at
any time the proper authorities of
any political party shall submit to the
members of such party any matter or
question to be voted upon said au
thorities shall also have printed on
said ballots the necessary language to
guide the voter in the expression of
his desire as to any such matter or
question.
All candidates for nomination for
state and county offices, including
members of the general assembly, in
primary elections which are called and
held by any political party shall qual
ify as such candidates in accordance
with the rules of the party calling the
primary not later than thirty days
previous to the holding of such pri
mary, and the committee or other par
ty authority or such party shall not
fix any other or different time limit
for qualification; provided, however,
that this provision shall not apply to
special primary elections to fill vacan
cies.
GIVE NOTICE OF CANDIDACY.
Sec. 3. In all elections other than
primary elections held under the aus
pices of a political party it shall be
the duty of the Ordinary to provide
and furnish at the expense of the coun
ty, and case of purely municipal elec
tions, at the expense of the municipal
ity, official ballots for all such elec
tions printed thereon, in separate col
umns, designating the names of the
political party to which they belong,
and also the names of any other can
didates for the offices to be filled at
said election; and in case of election
for president and vice president of the
United States the names of the can
didates for such offices may be added
with the electors and party designa
tion; provided, however, it shall not
be the duty of said officers to place
the names of any candidates on said
official ballots unless notice of their
candidacy shall be given in the fol
lowing manner, to wit: All candidates
for national and state offices, or the
proper authorities of the political par
ty mominating them, shall file notice
of their candidacy, giving their names
and the offices for which they are
candidates, with the secretary of state,
at least thirty days prior to the regu
lar election, except in cases where a
second primary election is necessary
the names of such candidates shall be
filed with the secretary of state just
as soon as possible after the determi
nation “of the result of the said pri
mary. All candidates for district and
county offices, either by themselves,
or by the proper authorities of the
party nominating them, shall file no
tice of their candidacy with the Ordi
nary of the county at least fifteen days
before the regular election, and all
candidates for municipal offices shall
file notice of their candidacy, by
themselves or by the proper authori
ties of the party nominating them,
with the mayor or other chief execu
tive officer of the municipality at
least fifteen days before the regular
election. In the event of the resigna
tion or death of any nominee of any
political party prior to the regular
election at which the name of said
nominee is to appear on the official
ballot, said vacancy in nomination
shall be filed in such mammer”as may
be determined by the proper authori
ties of such party.
Said officers shall also have printed
ion said ballots such necessary lan
guage for the voters to express their
'desires as to any question or matter
‘which is or may be submitted to the
people at any such election.
HOW VOTING IS DONE.
Sec. 4. Only one voter shall be al
lowed in a compartment of a rpom
or booth or enclosure, at a time and
immediately upon entering the booth
or tompartment the voter must pro
cure a ballot from the managers, im
mediately prepare, vote the same and
retire. It shall be the duty of the man
agers before handing a ballot to the
voter to ascertain that he is duly reg
istered and qualified under the law to
cast a vote, then write the name of
the voter on the sheet of the ticket or
ballot, and after the voter has pre
pared the ballot and before depositing
the same in the ballot box it shall be
the duty of the manager to see that
the ticket attempted to be voted bears
the same letter or designation and the
same number as the sheet on which
appears the name of the identical vo
ter, and it shall be unlawful for any
manager or clerk to receive or count
any ticket or ballot except in con
formity with these regulations, and
any voter attempting to vote any oth
er ticket or ballot, knowingly or wil
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fully, shall lose his vote for the elec
tion in which he offers to vote. If a
ticket be spoiled by a voter it shall be
the duty of the managers before de
livering another ticket or ballot to the
voter, to get from the voter the ticket
or ballot so spoiled. Any voter apply
ing to vote who shall state under oath
in writing to any of the managers,
which said oath may be administered
by any of the managers, that by rea
son of his inability to read the Eng
lish language, or by reason of blind
ness or the loss of the use of his
hands or other physical deformity he
is unable to prepare his ballot, may
have the assistance of any two mana
gers jointly and not separately in the
preparation of his ballot. No voter
shall at any time take or remove any
ticket or ballot from the booth or
compartment. The managers shall pre
serve these written oaths or affidavits,
and return them with the other elec
tion papers to the proper officials.
Sec. 5. The officers or party author
ities furnishing to the election mana
gers the ballots provided for in sec
tions 2 and 3 of this act shall provide
at least twenty-five per cent more bal
lots at each polling place than there
are qualified voters registered at said
polling place, and shall also furnish
all other election supplies required by
law, such as blanks for lists of voters,
tally sheets, etc.,, at the expense of
the county, municipality, or political
party, according as to whether the
same be a regular state or county elec
tion, municipal election or primary
election, and it shall be unlawful for
any election official or party author
ized to deliver any ballot or ticket to
any person other than a duly appoint
ed manager or clerk of the election
and it shall be unlawful for any man
ager or clerk or other election offi
cial to deliver any ballot or ticket to
any person other than a qualified vo
ter or elector, and not to him until he
applies for one at the proper voting
place for the purpose of voting the
same.
PRINTING OF BALLOTS.
Sec. 6. No printer, publisher or oth
er person engaged by the officials
herein designated to provide and fur
nish ballots, in case of a regular elec
tion, or by the authorities of any po
litical party, in case of primary elec
tions, to print or prepare election bal
lots, shall deliver or furnish a ballot
or ballots or any likeness of the same
to any person other than said officials
or said party authorities, or on their
written order; and no person engaged
by such printer or publisher or other
person to aid or assist in the printing
or preparation of said ballots shall re
tail or deliver or furnish a ballot or
ballots of the likeness or form of the
same to any person other than said
officials or party authorities, or on
their written order. Nor shall any
person, who having in any manner
procured an official ballot or likeness
thereof, furnish, deliver or give the
same to any one other than one of
said officials, said party authoriti¢s or
an election manager.
Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the
Ordinary to cause to be printed in
large type cards of instructions for
the guidance of voters in preparing
their ballots; they shall furnish to the
sheriff three or more if necessary of
such cards in each booth or compart
ment for the preparation of ballots,
and not less than three prominent
places elsewhere about the outside of
the polling place on the day of the
election.
A CRIME TO INFLUENCE.
Sec. 8. No person without said vot
ing room, booth or enclosure shall in
any manner, either by words or gest
ures, attempt to influence or linterfere
with any voter who is in said booth,
room or enclosure preparing his bal
lot, nor shall any person enter or go
in any booth, room or enclosure while
another person or voter is therein;
nor shall any person commit any act
of disorder or be guilty of any disor
derly conduct in, near or at any of
said voting rooms, booths, or enclos
ures, and any person who violates any
of the provisions of this section of-this
act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and on conviction, punished as pre
scribed in section 1065 of the Penal
Code of 1910.
Sec. 9. Any person who votes or at
tempts to vote, knowingly or wilfully,
in violation of the provisions of the
preceding sections of this act, at any
election, or who shall otherwise vio
late any of the provisions of this act
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction, be punisked as pre
scribed in section 1065 of the Penal
Code of 1910.
Sec. 10. Any manager, clerk or oth
er officer, knowingly and wilfully aid
ing, assisting, permitting, procuring or
being otherwise concurred in arny vio
lation of any part of the provisions
‘of this act shall be guilty of a misde
meanor and upon conviction punished
as prescribed in section 1065 of the
Penal Code of 1910.
CRIME TO SOLICIT VOTES.
Sec. 11. Any manager, clerk or oth
er officer engaged in any election, of
any, kind or character, held in this
state, or in any of the counties ‘or
municipalities thereof, who shall ask
for or solicit the vote or votes of any
voter or elector in any such election,
in behalf of any of the candidates, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
conviction punished as prescribed in
section 1065 of the Penal Code of
1910.
Sec. 12. Any manager who may be
called in by any voter or elector to
assist such voter or elector in the
preparation of his ballot, as provided
in section 4 of ‘this act, and who shall
prepare or cause to be prepared the
ticket or ballot of such voter or ‘elec
tor in any way or manner different
from his desire, instruction or direc
tion as given to such manager by the
voter or the elector shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and on conviction pun
ished as prescribed in section 1065 of
the Penal €ode of 1910.
Sec. 13. Any manager, clerk or oth
er officer engaged or officiating in any
election of any kind or character held
in this state, or in any of the'counties
or municipalities thereof, who shall
ive out, tell, make known or furnish
S‘urjng the progress of any such elec
tion or at any other time, except when
\making official returns or when re
quired by legal process, any data, me
‘morandum or other information con
cerning which voter or voters have
voted, concerning which voter or vo
ters have not voted, concerning for
‘whom any voter or voters have vot
ed, concerning for whom any voter
or voters have not voted, or concern
ing how many votes have been polled
for any candidate shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and on conviction pun
ished as prescribed in section 1065 of
the Penal Code of 1910.
Sec. 14. Any manager, clerk or
officer or other person upon whom a
duty is imposed by this act who in
tentionally and wilfully neglects or
fails to perform the same, where no
violation is specifically defined, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and on
conviction punished as prescribed in
section 1065 of the Penal Code of 1910.
Sec. 15. Nothing in this act con
tained shall be construed or alter or
change the requirements of law as to
the registration of voters now or here
after to be énforced under the laws
of this state.
Any time after the law has been in
operation for as long as six years it
shall cease and become inoperative
upon the recommendation of two con
secutive grand juries.
EMPLOY 130 TEACHERS OF
AGRICULTURE IN GEORGIA
The state board of vocational edu
cation is co-operating with the public
schools of the state in paying the sal
aries of 130 teachers of vocational ag
riculture. Seventy of these teachers are
giving instruction in the high schools,
24 in the ten district A. and M.
schools, and 36 in the negro schools.
December 31st.
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