The Australian Ballot System as Embodied in the Legislation of Various CountriesC. C. Soule, 1889 - 155 páginas |
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adopted agent appointed Austr Australian system Ballot Act ballot clerks ballot paper ballot system ballot-box ballot-paper Belg bill booth borough Brit cause certificate of nomination chief polling-place committee compulsory secrecy containing the name counterfoil County Clerk day of election declare delivered deposit didate duty elec election district election officers Elections Act electors envelope filed folded forthwith hereinafter illiterates infra legislation less manner mark the ballot Maryport Mass Massachusetts ment method municipal elections nomi nomination paper nomination-paper NOTE number of ballots number of votes offence official mark Parl party person political poll poll-clerk polling-booth polling-station prepare his ballot present presiding officer printed Quebec Queens Queensland received reform Reform Club returning officer secret ballot secretary SECT signatures signed South Australia statutes Tasmania therein thereof ticket tion town clerk Vict VIII village of Weston voter voting paper voting precinct voting shelves wilfully writing
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Página 88 - ... or communicate at any time to any person any information obtained in a polling station as to the candidate for whom any voter in such station is about to vote or has voted, or as to the number on the back of the ballot paper given to any voter at such station.
Página 131 - ... nomination knowing the same or any part thereof to be falsely made, or suppress any certificate of nomination which has been duly filed, or any part thereof, or forge or falsely make the official endorsement on any ballot.
Página 101 - If the voter votes for more than candidate, or places any mark on the paper by which he may be afterwards identified, his ballot paper will be void, and will not be counted. If the voter takes a ballot paper out of the polling station, or deposits in the ballot box any other paper than the one given him by the officer...
Página 94 - ... elector shall be marked on the counterfoil, and a mark shall be placed in the register against the number of the elector, to denote that he has received a ballot paper, but without showing the particular ballot paper which he has received.
Página 99 - We, the undersigned, being registered electors of the , do hereby assent to the nomination of the above-mentioned John Brown as a proper person to serve as member for the said • in parliament (Signed) EF of ' GH of IJ of KL of MN of OP of QB of 8.T of Note.
Página 49 - If the voter marks more names than there are persons to be elected to an office, or if for any reason it is impossible to determine the voter's choice for any office to be filled, his ballot shall not be counted for such office.
Página 88 - In any indictment or other prosecution for an offence in relation to the nomination papers, ballot boxes, ballot papers, and marking instruments at an election, the property in such papers, boxes, and instruments may be stated to be in the returning officer at such election, as well as the property in the counterfoils.
Página 138 - ... upon which there is any writing or mark by which the voter could be identified...
Página 42 - Official ballot," followed by the designation of the polling place for which the ballot is prepared, the date of the election and a fac-simile of the signature of the clerk or other officer who has caused the ballots to be printed.
Página 154 - ... thereupon make and file with the proper officer a certificate, setting forth the cause of the vacancy, the name of the person nominated, the office for which he was nominated, the name of the person for whom the new nominee is to be substituted, the fact that the committee was authorized to fill vacancies, and such further information as is required to be given in an original certificate of nomination.