If a constitutional amendment is submitted to a vote, such proposed amendment should be printed upon the ballot after the list of candidates, as follows:

"Shall the following amendment be adopted?

Yes.

(Here insert the proposed amendment.)"

No.

If

any

other public measure is proposed to be voted upon by the people, instead of the above use the following: “Shall the following be adopted?

Yes.

No.

(Here insert the designated title to proposed public measure.) "

The county clerk is required to have the ballots printed and in his possession at least five days before the election, accompanied by exact copies of said ballot, printed on paper of any color other than white, for the inspection of candidates and their agents; and the county clerk is further required to cause to be delivered to the judges of the election, at the polling place of each voting precinct, not less than twelve (12) hours before the time fixed by law for the opening of the polls therein, one hundred (100) ballots of the kind to be voted in such precinct for every fifty (50) voters or fraction thereof cast therein at the last preceding election for state officers.

The township trustees of the respective townships, and the mayors of the respective incorporated cities, are required, at least five (5) days before any election, to appoint three (3) judges and two (2) clerks of election for each voting precinct in such township or city, and cause said judges and clerks to be notified in writing of their appointment; no more than two (2) judges and no more than one (1) clerk to belong to the same political party or organization: Provided, There be one or more electors qualified and willing to act as such judge or clerk, and belonging to and a member or members of opposite parties; and each person so appointed is required, at least one day before election, to appear before such township trustee or clerk of such city, as the case may be, and take and subscribe an oath to faithfully and honestly discharge his duties as such judge or clerk.

The judges and clerks should, immediately after their being notified of their appointment, appear before the trustee or clerk, as the case may be, and take and subscribe the oath required, in order that the county clerk may be promptly notified by the trustee or clerk of such appointment or qualification, thus advising him as to the proper persons to whom the ballots should and must be delivered 12 hours before the election.

The county clerk is also required to cause to be published (at least once), prior to the day of election, in at least two newspapers, if there be so many published in such county, representing the political parties which cast at the preceding general election the largest and next largest number of votes, a list of all the nominations made, as provided by said act, and to be voted for at such election, as near as may be in the form in which they may appear upon the general ballot.

The county clerk is also required to provide and retain at his office an ample supply of ballots, in addition to those distributed to the several voting precincts, to be furnished to any precinct requiring same, by reason of the supply already furnished having been lost, destroyed, or exhausted before the polls are closed, as required by section 15 of said act.

The county clerks of the several counties of the State have entire charge of the printing of cards of instruction to voters and the ballots for all general elections, and their distribution, together with the publication of the list of candidates nominated, furnishing the poll books and other necessary blanks connected with or growing out of the provisions of this act, (except the books of registration required in cities of the first and second class,) the same to be done at the expense of the county in the first instance; such expense to be apportioned by the board of county commissioners among the various townships and cities of the first and second class in such counties in proportion to the vote cast at the last preceding election in each township and city, and to be paid for by such townships and cities by warrants drawn in favor of the proper county incurring such expense.

The provisions of said act do not apply to school-district elections or meetings located outside the limits of an incorporated city. . . .

The county clerk should procure a record book in which to enter the list of names of candidates certified to him, giving the name of the office to which the respective candidates were nominated, political party making such nominations, etc.

The clerk should also procure a register in which to make record of ballots issued at each election, showing the date of issue, to whom given, for what precinct, the number of ballots delivered, date of return of ballots, number unused, the number objected to or defective, and the number voted; also date of destruction of the ballots, and names of witnesses to such destruction, and their politics.

It is hoped that if the election law and the suggestions herein made are carefully followed, the elections in this State will be free from fraud and corruption, and the will of the voters can and will be ascertained.

R. S. OSBORN, Secretary of State. Approved by JOHN T. LITTLE, Attorney General.

INDEX.

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