1914 Election Laws of West Virginia: Including "Registration Act" of 1911 as Amended in 1913 and "Corrupt Practices Act" of 1908Tribune Printing Company, 1914 - 54 pages |
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affidavit aforesaid appointed ballot box ballot commissioners board of ballot board of canvassers booth or compartment candidates for public certificate of nomination chapter circuit court commissioners of election conviction thereof county court county executive committee county jail cross mark deemed guilty deliver desires to vote duty elec election held election precinct election room electors entitled to vote felony filed filled fined not less five hundred dollars jail not less last preceding magisterial district mandamus misdemeanor municipal number of votes offense offering to vote package of ballots penitentiary not less person voted place of voting political committee political party poll books poll clerks preceding general election prepare his ballot primary election printed public office qualified voter received or disbursed refrain from voting registered registrars residence returns sealed sioners of election special election thereafter therein tion vacancy votes cast voting precinct West Virginia writ of mandamus
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Page 45 - ... 2. Every person who shall after any election directly or indirectly, by himself, or by any other person on his behalf, receive any money or valuable consideration on account of any person having voted or refrained from voting, or having induced any other person to vote or refrain from voting at any election...
Page 46 - ... applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead or of a fictitious person, or who having voted once at any such election applies at the same election for a ballot paper in his own name.
Page 52 - ... any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting at any election...
Page 3 - The general elections of State and county officers, and of members of the legislature, shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday In November, until otherwise provided by law.
Page 5 - Each county shall be laid off into districts, not less than three nor more than ten in number, and as nearly equal as may be in territory and population. There shall be elected in each district containing a population not exceeding twelve hundred, one justice of the peace, and if the population exceeds that number, two such justices shall be elected therein.
Page 8 - All citizens of the Philippine Islands shall owe allegiance to the United States. (2) Every officer of the government of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, take and subscribe an oath of office, declaring, among other things, that he recognizes and accepts the supreme authority of and will maintain true faith and allegiance to the United States.
Page 3 - No soldier, seaman or marine in the army or navy of the United States shall be deemed a resident of this state in consequence of being stationed therein.
Page 46 - ... upon or against any person in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting, or on account of such person having voted or refrained from voting at any election, or who shall by abduction, duress, or any fraudulent device or contrivance impede...
Page 10 - A convention, within the meaning of this act, is an organized assemblage of delegates representing a political party which, at the last election before the holding of such convention, polled at least three per cent of the entire vote of the State, county, district, or other political division for which the nomination is made...
Page 25 - ... who shall thereupon announce the same in a loud and distinct tone of voice, clear and audible, and if such name is found upon the...