The Australian Ballot System as Embodied in the Legislation of Various Countries: With an Historical Introduction, and an Appendix of Decisions Since 1856 in Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, and AustraliaBoston book Company, 1889 - 205 pages |
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adopted agent amended appointed Austr Australian system Ballot Act ballot clerks ballot paper ballot-box ballot-paper Belg booth borough certificate of nomination committee counterfoil County Clerk cross day of election declaration delivered Democrats deposit didate duty elec election district election officers Elections Act Electoral District electors envelope favor filed folded held hereinafter House illiterates indorsed infra inspectors introduced invalid Knights of Labor Labor legislative legislature manner mark the ballot Mass Massachusetts ment method municipal elections nomination papers nomination-paper NOTE number of ballots number of votes offence official mark Ontario party person political poll polling-place polling-station prepare his ballot present presiding officer printed Quebec Queens Queensland received registered representing Republicans returning officer secret ballot secretary SECT Senate session of 1889 signatures Single Tax League South Australia statutes thereof tion town clerk valid Vict voter voting paper voting precinct voting shelves
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Page 110 - ... 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.
Page 153 - ... 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.
Page 111 - No person shall directly or indirectly induce any voter to display his ballot paper after he shall have marked the same, so as to make known to any person the name of the candidate for or against whom he has so marked his vote.
Page 72 - ... or who shall make a false statement as to his inability to mark his ballot, or any person who shall interfere, or attempt to interfere with any voter when inside said enclosed space or when marking his ballot, or who shall endeavor to induce any voter before voting to show how he marks or has marked his ballot, shall be punished by a fine...
Page 156 - The chairman and secretary of such committee shall 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.
Page 71 - 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.
Page 110 - 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.
Page 163 - ... upon which there is any writing or mark by which the voter could be identified...
Page 95 - ... and if he is any other person, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour.
Page 116 - The returning officer shall provide each polling station with materials for voters to mark the ballot papers, with instruments for stamping thereon the official mark, and with copies of the register of voters, or such part thereof as contains the names of the voters allotted to vote at Rich station.