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 LAWS GOVERNING 
 
 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND 
 PRIMARY ELECTIONS '* 
 
 IN THE 
 
 State of Florida 
 
 T. J. Appleyard, State Printer, 
 Tallahassee, Florida. 
 
Laws Governing Elections in the State 
 of Florida. 
 
 Section 170. Who Are Qualified Electors. Every male 
 person of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, that 
 shall at the time of registration be a citizen of the United 
 States, and shall have resided and had his habitation, 
 domicile, home and place of permanent abode in Florida 
 for one year- and in the county for six months, shall, if 
 otherwise qualified according to law in such county, be 
 deemed a qualified elector at all elections under the Con- 
 stitution. Naturalized citizens of the United States, at 
 the time of and before registration, shall produce to the 
 registration officer their certificates of naturalization or 
 duly certified copies thereof, and shall make oath that 
 they are the identical persons named in such certificate, 
 before they shall be allowed to register; Provided, That 
 the following classes of persons shall not be entitled to 
 vote: 
 
 First. Persons not duly registered according to law. 
 
 Second. Persons under guardianship, including those 
 kept in or confined in any public prison. 
 
 Third. Persons who are insane or idiotic. 
 
 Fourth. Persons who may have been convicted of 
 felony by any court of record. 
 
 Fifth. Persons who may have been convicted of bribery, 
 perjury, or larceny, or of any infamous crime in any 
 court of this State, or any other State, or interested in 
 any bet or wager the result of which shall depend upon 
 any election, or that shall hereafter fight a duel, or send, 
 knowingly carry or accept a challenge to fight, or that 
 shall be a second to either party, or that shall be the 
 bearer of such a challenge or acceptance; but the legal 
 disability shall not accrue until after trial and convic- 
 tion by due form of law. 
 
 Sixth. No person shall be permited to vote at an 
 election who shall have failed to pay, at least on or before 
 
the second Saturday in the month preceding the day of 
 such election, his poll taxes for the two years next pre- 
 ceding the year in which such election shall be held ; Pro- 
 vided, That no person shall be prevented from voting on 
 account of not having so paid a poll tax for any year 
 which shall not have been lawfully assessable against 
 him by reason of his not having been of age, or having 
 been over 55 years of age or who has lost a limb in battle, 
 and who shall have procured and shall exhibit the certifi- 
 cate of the Supervisor of Eegistration to that effect as 
 hereinafter provided for; Provided, That no person who 
 has not been in this State one year previous to any gen- 
 eral election, shall be required to pay more than one 
 year's poll taxes. 
 
 Sec. 171. Day of General Election. A general elec- 
 tion shall be held in the several counties of this State on 
 the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in Novem- 
 ber, A. D. 1906, and biennially on the same day there- 
 after, or upon such a day as may hereafter be fixed by 
 law, at which general election there shall be chosen, by 
 the qualified electors in this State, such elective State 
 and county officers whose term of office may then require 
 an election to be held to fill such office, beside State Sen- 
 ators and members of the House of Representatives of 
 this State, and such other elective officers as may be re- 
 quired to be elected, as provided by the Constitution and 
 laws of this State, except as herein otherwise provided. 
 
 Sec. 172. General Elections. A Governor, the admin- 
 istrative officers of the executive department, and the 
 State Senators representing the odd numbered districts, 
 shall be elected at a general election to be held in A. D. 
 1908, and every four years thereafter. State Senators 
 from the even numbered districts shall be chosen the gen- 
 eral election in A. D. 1906 and every four years there- 
 after. Members of the House of Representatives 
 shall be chosen at every -general election, A Clerk 
 of the Circuit Court and County Judge, and Sheriff, 
 and Superintendent of Public Instruction, and a County 
 Surveyor, shall be chosen for each county in this State 
 by its qualified electors at said election, A. D. 1908, and 
 every four years thereafter. A County Assessor of Taxes, 
 and County Tax Collector and a County Treasurer for 
 each county in this State, and County Board of Public 
 
Instruction, consisting of three members, one from each 
 school board district, to be elected from the several conn- 
 ties at large of this State, and a Board of County Com- 
 missioners of five members, one from each county commis- 
 sioner's district, elected from the several counties at large 
 of this State- and a Justice of the Peace, and a Constable 
 for each justice district, shall be elected by the qualified 
 electors thereof at every general election. 
 
 Sec. 173 As to Election of Justices of Supreme Court. 
 See Section 1742. (To be Six Justices of the Supreme 
 Court.) From and after the first Tuesday after the first 
 Monday in June, 1905, the Supreme Court shall 
 consist of six Justices, who shall be elected by 
 the qualified electors of the State at the time 
 and place of voting for members of the Legislature, and 
 shall hold their office for the term of six years, except as 
 hereinafter provided: Of the four Justices who were 
 elected at the general election, A. D. 1904, the one elected 
 to succeed the then Chief Justice shall hold office for the 
 term of six years, beginning on the first Tuesday after the 
 first Monday in January, 1905, and the three who were 
 elected to succeed the three additional Justices provided 
 for by the amendments of Sections 2 and 4, of Article V. 
 of the Constitution, adopted at the general election held 
 A. D. 1902, whose terms of office begin on the first Tues- 
 day after the first Monday in June, A. D. 1905, one of 
 whom to be designated by lot in such manner as the three 
 may determine, who shall hold his office until the first 
 Tuesday after the first Monday in January, A. D. 1909; 
 another to be designated in like manner until the first 
 Tuesday after the first Monday in January, A. D. 1909, 
 and the third until the first Tuesday after the first Mon- 
 day in January, A. D. 1911. Successors to the two re- 
 maining Justices now m office shall be elected at the gen- 
 eral election immediately preceding the expiration of 
 their respective terms of office; so that two Justices shall 
 be elected at every general election thereafter for terms 
 of six years, to begin on the first Tuesday after the first 
 Monday in January after their election. The Chief Jus- 
 tice shall be designated by lot by the Justices composing 
 the court, and shall be such during his term of office; Pro- 
 vided, however, The present Chief Justice shall remain 
 such during his term of office. (Chapter 6169 (No. 50), 
 
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 Laws of Florida, approved June 3, 1911, reduced the num- 
 ber of Supreme Court Justices to five.) 
 
 Sec. 174. Election of Representatives to Congress and 
 Presidential Electors. A representative to the Congress 
 of the United States shall be elected in and for each Con- 
 gressional District of this State at every general election. 
 Electors of President and Vice-President of the United 
 States shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the 
 first Monday in November, A. D. 1908, and on the same 
 day every four years thereafter. (For election of United 
 States Senator, see Chapter 6471 (No. 51), Laws of Flor- 
 ida, published in this pamphlet.) 
 
 Sec. 175. Special Elections. Special elections shall be 
 held in the following cases: 
 
 First. Where there has been no choice of any officer 
 who should have been elected at a general election. 
 
 Second. When a vacancy shall occur in the office of 
 State Senator or Member of the House of Eepresentatives 
 of this State. But in case of a vacancy in the office of 
 State Senator or Member of the said House of Repre- 
 sentatives, a special election shall not be held unless a 
 session of the Legislature shall be held after the vacancy 
 occurs and before a general election. 
 
 Third. When a vacancy shall occur more than three 
 months before a general election, in the office of Repre- 
 sentative to the Congress of the United States, or in 
 any other office that the Governor shall not be authorized 
 to fill by appointment. But if any vacancy shall occur 
 at a time not more than three months before a general 
 election, the Governor may, in his discretion, order a spe- 
 cial election to fill the same. 
 
 Fourth. When it shall be necessary to elect Presiden- 
 tial Electors, by reason of the offices of President and 
 Vice-President both having become vacant. 
 
 (For special election of United States Senator, see 
 Chapter 6471 (No. 51), Laws of Florida, published in this 
 pamphlet.) 
 
 Sec. 176. Notice of General Elections. The Secretary 
 of State shall, between the first days of July and Septem- 
 ber' in any year in which a general election shall be held, 
 make out and cause to be published, at least sixty days 
 prior to the day of holding the election, in one or more 
 
newspapers printed at the State Capital, at least once a 
 week until the election, a notice stating what offices and 
 vacancies are to be filled at such general election in the 
 State, and in each county and district thereof, and shall 
 send to the Sheriff of each county a notice of the offices 
 and vacancies of each county to be filled at such general 
 election by the qualified voters of his county, or any dis- 
 trict thereof, and the Sheriff shall cause a copy of such 
 notice to be published weekly in a newspaper printed in 
 his county, if there be one in the county, and if there be 
 no such paper printed in his county, he shall cause at 
 lease five copies of such notice to be posted in the most 
 conspicuous and public places in the county. 
 
 Sec. 177. Notice of Special Elections. Whenever a spe- 
 cial election for any office is required to be holden, the 
 Governor shall make an order declaring on what day the 
 same shall be held, and deliver the same to the Secretary 
 of State, whereupon the Secretary of State shall publish 
 notice of the election to be holden therefor in one or more 
 newspapers published weekly at the State Capital, for not 
 less than fifteen days nor more than forty days prior to 
 said election, containing notice of the vacancy or vacan- 
 cies to be filled, and of the county or counties in which 
 elections are to be held therefor, and the Secretary of 
 State shall also deliver to the Sheriff of such county or 
 counties, in which such special elections are to be held, a 
 notice of the time of election and the offices to be filled by 
 the voters of their respective counties, or any district 
 thereof, and the Sheriff shall cause a copy of such notice 
 to be published weekly in some newspaper printed in his 
 county, if there be such a newspaper, and if there be no 
 such paper printed in his county, he shall cause at least 
 five copies of such notice to be posted in the most public 
 and conspicuous places in the county. 
 
 Sec. 178. Oath and Identification of Elector for Regis- 
 tration. Upon application for registration each elector 
 shall be required to take and subscribe the following oath : 
 "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will protect and 
 defend the Constitution of the United States and of the 
 State of Florida; that I am twenty-one years of age and 
 have been a resident of the State of Florida for twelve 
 months, and of this county for six months; that I am a 
 citizen of the United States, and that I am qualified to 
 
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 vote under the Constitution and laws of the State of 
 Florida." The Supervisor of Registration and district 
 registration officers provided for are hereby authorized 
 and required to administer this oath, and the elector 
 shall also be required, under oath, to be administered by 
 the registration officer to give such description of himself 
 as will be sufficient to clearly identify his person with 
 the act of registration. 
 
 Sec. 179. Supervisor of Registration and District Reg- 
 istration Officers. Upon the expiration of the term of 
 office for which each Supervisor of Registration of elec- 
 tors has heretofore been appointed in each county, and 
 every two years thereafter, the Governor shall appoint, 
 subject to removal by him at any time, one competent, 
 discreet and fair-minded person in each county, who shall 
 be a qualified elector thereof, to be known as the Super- 
 visor of Registration of electors in said county. Such 
 Supervisor shall hold his office for two years, and until 
 his successor shall be appointed and qualified. He shall 
 keep his office at the county site, and shall have exclusive 
 charge of the registration of electors, and for this pur- 
 pose shall open and keep books suitable for such registra- 
 tion of electors in each election district in such county. 
 He shall appoint, subject to removal at any time by him, 
 a district registration officer of each election district in 
 his county, whose duty it shall be to attend to the regis- 
 tration of electors in such district as hereinafter provided. 
 The Supervisor of Registration shall not be eligible for 
 any other office until six months after ceasing to be such 
 Supervisor. 
 
 Sec. 180. Supervisor to Take Oath and Give Bond 
 Compensation. Each Supervisor shall, before entering 
 on the performance of his duties, take the oath prescribed 
 by Section 2, Article XVI, of the Constitution, and shall 
 give a bond to the Governor of the State in the sum of 
 five hundred dollars, with two sureties, to be approved by 
 the Board of County Commissioners of his county, con- 
 ditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as such 
 Supervisor. The compensation of such Supervisors shall 
 be such sum or sums in proportion to the amount of work 
 to be done as may be fixed and allowed by the Board of 
 County Commissioners in each county respectively; Pro- 
 vided, That the compensation of no Supervisor shall be 
 
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 less than one hundred (f 100. 00) dollars per annum. The 
 district registration officers shall be paid for their services 
 by the respective counties such sum or sums as may be 
 fixed and allowed by the Board of County Commissioners 
 in each county respectively, after the Supervisor of Reg- 
 istration shall have certified to the amount of service 
 performed by each of such district registration officers. 
 
 Sec. 181. Supervisor May Remove District Registra- 
 tion Officer. Each Supervisor shall have power at any 
 time to remove any district registration officer within 
 his county whenever he deems proper, and such district 
 registration officer, when so removed, shall on demand, 
 surrender to such Supervisor all books and papers con- 
 nected with his office. Each district registration officer 
 shall, before entering upon the performance of his duties, 
 make oath in writing, before any officer authorized to 
 administer oaths, that he will well and faithfully per- 
 form the duties of his office, which oath shall be trans- 
 mitted to the Supervisor of Registration, and preserved 
 by him. 
 
 Sec. 182. To Deliver Books and Papers to Successor. 
 Upon the removal of any Supervisor of Registration of 
 Electors, it shall be his duty to immediately and promptly 
 deliver over to his successor all the books and papers and 
 blanks belonging to his office or connected therewith in 
 any way. 
 
 Sec. 183. Time of Registration and Office Hours. 
 The Supervisor of Registration shall keep the registration 
 books of the county open at his office at least three days 
 in each week, and oftener if the County Commissioners 
 shall so order, from 9 o'clock a. m. to 12 m. and from 2 
 o'clock p. m. until 5 p. m., from the first Monday in 
 August in each year in which there is any general elec 
 tion, for the registration of electors. And he shall give 
 notice, by publishing in a newspaper printed in his coun- 
 ty for two consecutive weeks immediately preceding the 
 time of opening his books, naming the days of the week 
 he will keep his books open. The district registration 
 officers, hereinbefore provided for, shall keep the registra 
 tion books for such district open at some convenient place 
 therein for the purpose of registration at least two days 
 in each week, from 9 o'clock a. m. to 12 m. and from 1 
 
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 o'clock p. m. to 7 p. m. from the first Monday in Septem- 
 ber until the second Saturday of the month preceding the 
 day in each year in which there is any general election. 
 He shall give notice, by posting in three conspicuous 
 places in his district, naming days of the week his books 
 will be open, and at what, particular building or dwelling 
 he will be. During the time that the district registration 
 officer is registering voters he may register in one book 
 and the Supervisor in another. The registration books of 
 each county shall be closed on said second Saturday of 
 the month preceding the day in each year in which there 
 shall be a general election. And no person shall be al- 
 lowed to register at any other time than during the period 
 herein provided for the opening of said books for registra- 
 tion of electors. 
 
 Sec. 184. Registration and Election Districts. Each 
 election and registration district, voting place or precinct 
 in this State, as now laid out, defined and fixed, is hereby 
 recognized and continued ; but the Board of County Com- 
 missioners in each county are hereby empowered, at any 
 time prior to the first day of July in any year in which 
 there shall be a general election, to alter or change the 
 same, or to create new districts, designating each district 
 by number, and at the most suitable point in each district 
 to establish a voting place or precinct, at which voting 
 place or precinct there shall be a polling place, as herein- 
 after provided, which said voting place or precinct shall 
 not thereafter be changed without the consent of four 
 members of the Board of County Commissioners, in meet- 
 ing assembled. 
 
 Sec. 185. Description of Election Districts To Be 
 Recorded. Within ten days after there shall be any 
 change in the division, number or boundaries of the elec- 
 tion districts as now established, or of the location of the 
 voting places or precincts, it shall be the duty of the 
 County Commissioners in each county in which there 
 shall be any such change to make in writing an accurate 
 description of any such new or altered election districts, 
 setting forth the boundary lines thereof, so as to designate 
 accurately the limits of each district that has not already 
 been clearly defined and established, and they shall at 
 the same time name and clearly define and describe in 
 writing the voting place or precinct which they shall have 
 
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 established in any such new or altered election district or 
 in any district in which they may change the voting place 
 or precinct, which they shall have established in any 
 such new or altered election district or in any district 
 in which they may change the voting place or precinct, 
 and they shall forthwith cause the same to be recorded 
 in the registry of deeds in the office of the Clerk of the 
 Circuit Court for such county. 
 
 Sec. 186. Publication. On recording the aforesaid des- 
 ignations and descriptions of said election districts and 
 voting places or precincts, the said County Commission- 
 ers shall publish the same for not exceeding four weeks 
 in some newspaper published in the county, and if there 
 be no newspaper published in said county, they shall post 
 a plainly written or printed copy of said descriptions and 
 designations at the court house of such county, in a con- 
 spicuous place, and also at three public places in the dis- 
 trict changed or altered. 
 
 Sec. 187. Publication of List of Qualified Voters. The 
 Supervisor of Eegistration of the several counties of this 
 State shall have published, within fourteen days after 
 the second Saturday in the month preceding the day in 
 w^hich any general election is held, a certified list of the 
 registered and qualified electors of each election district 
 whrein such election shall be held. 
 
 Sec. 188. Secretary of State to Furnish Books and 
 Blanks. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State 
 to cause a sufficient number of registration books, blank 
 oaths for registration, certificates of registration, appli- 
 cation for renewal of certificates, certificates of transfer, 
 and other blanks required to be used under this act, to be 
 prepared so that there shall be three of said registration 
 books for each election district in each county, which 
 registration books shall, at the top of each page, have writ- 
 ten or printed the oath required by the Constitution to be 
 taken by electors at the time of registration, and shall 
 be ruled in columns, with proper headings, so as to indi- 
 cate the name age, color, occupation and place of resi- 
 dence, includin-g the street, lot and block of any town or 
 city, and the date of registration of each elector and the 
 number of the certificate that may be issued to him, with 
 a separate column at the right side of each line for such 
 
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 notes and entries as may from time to time be necessary 
 to put opposite any name; Provided, That outside of 
 towns and cities the residence may be designated by num- 
 ber of quarter section or convenient subdivision thereof. 
 The pages of said book shall be alphabetically arranged 
 and numbered, and the lines in each page shall be num- 
 bered, and the names thereon shall be alphabetically 
 registered. 
 
 Sec. 189. Requisition for Books and Blanks. -Upon 
 requisition of the County Commissioners of any county, 
 the Secretary of State shall furnish them the required 
 number of said books and blanks, which the County 
 Commissioners shall deliver to the Supervisor of Regis- 
 tration of their respective counties. 
 
 Sec. 190. Supervisor of Registration to Make Up 
 Books. Immediately upon the expiration of the time for 
 registration at the several precincts, each district regis- 
 tration officer shall promptly deliver his book and all 
 blanks left in his possession to the Supervisor of Regis- 
 tration at the county site, and thereupon the Supervisor 
 of Registration shall proceed to make up the registration 
 books for the several districts in his county, so that three 
 registration books for each election district shall exactly 
 correspond and be as nearly as may be a duplicate the one 
 of the other. Such books shall be so marked on the backs 
 thereof as to designate clearly to which election district 
 they belong, and one of the said books for every election 
 district shall be marked by the Supervisor on the back 
 thereof with the words "Office Copy," and which office 
 copies shall at all times be kept by the Supervisor in his 
 office. The original registration books used by the dis- 
 trict registration officials shall also, after being returned 
 by them, be kept by the Supervisor in his office. 
 
 Sec. 191. Registration Certificates. Each elector, upon 
 being registered, shall be furnished by the registration 
 officer with a certificate of registration, which certificate, 
 issued by the Supervisor, shall be numbered in each dis- 
 trict for which they are issued, by consecutive numbers, 
 in the order in which they are issued by him, which cer- 
 tificates shall contain a statement of the full name, age, 
 color, height, occupation, place of residence and date of 
 
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 registration, as entered in the registration books, which 
 certificates shall be signed by the registration officer. 
 
 Sec. 192. Voters Must Be Registered in District. No 
 person shall be allowed to vote in any other election dis- 
 trict than the one in which he is registered ; nor shall any 
 person whose name does not appear upon the registration 
 books be allowed to vote; Provided, That when the name 
 of any one who has duly registered does not appear on 
 the registration books of the election district in which 
 he is registered, and in which he resides, such person 
 shall, on making satisfactory proof to the Supervisor of 
 Registration of the fact of his previous registration, and 
 that his name has been improperly omitted from the said 
 books, be entitled to have his name restored to said books, 
 on application to the Supervisor of Registration, and 
 shall thereupon receive from such Supervisor a certificate 
 of registration similar to that hereinbefore provided for, 
 across the face of which shall be written in red ink the 
 words "Restoration Certificate,' 7 by the Supervisor of 
 Registration, on the production of which, at the proper 
 polling place of the proper election district, he shall be 
 entitled to vote, even though his name does not appear on 
 the registration books of such district; Provided, Said 
 certificate of registration properly identified him to the 
 managers of the election. The certificate of registration 
 shall be of the following form : 
 
 Registration Certificate No 
 
 State of Florida, 
 
 County f Election District No. 
 
 The bearer is at the date hereof a 
 
 qualified elector in the above district. He resides at 
 
 _ is years of age, by 
 
 occupation a He is feet 
 
 inches in height; his color is and he is entitled 
 
 to vote in said district, unless hereinafter disqualified, 
 Registered on this day of , A. D. 19 
 
 Supervisor of Registration for said County. 
 
 Sec. 193. Certificate of Transfer. The certificate of 
 transfer to be used in cases of transfer from one election 
 district to another shall be of the following form : 
 
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 Transfer of Registration Certificate No. 
 State of Florida, 
 
 a \ 
 
 'county ) Election District No 
 
 The bearer, , is at the date hereof a 
 
 qualified elector in the above district. He resides at 
 , is years of age, by occu- 
 pation He is feet inches in 
 
 height; his color is , and he is entitled to 
 
 vote in said District No , where he formerly 
 
 resided. 
 
 Transferred on this day of A. D. 19 
 
 Supervisor of Registration for said County. 
 
 Sec. 194. New Registration Books. Whenever it may 
 be necessary, the Supervisor of Registration of any county 
 shall transfer and transcribe into new registration books, 
 from whatever registration books may be in possession 
 of such Supervisor, the names of all electors who appear 
 upon said old books, to be properly and legally registered 
 electors thereon at the time of such transfer to said three 
 new books, taking are that the names of all the electors 
 shall be transcribed only in the books of the election dis- 
 trict to which such electors belong. 
 
 Sec. 195. When Books To Be Closed. At the end of 
 the time provided by this act for the registration books 
 to be kept open by the Supervisor of Registration, the 
 said books shall be closed, and shall not again be opened 
 for registration until after the next succeeding general 
 election, except as herein provided, and the Supervisor of 
 Registration shall attach his certificate to each of said 
 three registration books, certifying that they have been 
 examined and revised by him, and that he has caused such 
 registration to be made in compliance with the Constitu 
 tion and laws of the State of Florida, fairly and impar- 
 tially, to the best of his ability, and such books or lists 
 of names so certified, with such additions, corrections, 
 erasures and revisions as may from time to time, in con- 
 formity to law, be made to or of the same, shall constitute 
 the registration books and lists of such county. 
 
 Sec. 196. Custodian of Registration Books. The Su- 
 pervisors of Registration of Electors in the various coun- 
 
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 ties shall be the official custodians of the books of regis- 
 tration, and they shall have the exclusive control and man- 
 agement of all matters pertaining to the proper registra- 
 tion of electors at all times. Whenever it shall come to 
 the knowledge of the Supervisor of Registration that any 
 elector has died or become disqualified to vote by reason 
 of conviction of any disqualifying crime, or from any 
 other cause, or has removed from the county or from one 
 election district to another in the county without obtain- 
 ing a certificate of transfer, or that his right to vote has 
 become in any wise affected since his registration, it shall 
 be the duty of said Supervisor to make a note of such fact 
 on the proper registration books opposite the name of 
 such person, and to mark off the names of such persons 
 as have so ceased to be qualified electors by running a pen 
 through the name of each person on such books, and in 
 such cases the Supervisor shall carefully note in said 
 books the date of such erasure, and in no case shall the 
 inspectors or managers of any election allow any person 
 to vote whose name shall appear on the books to have 
 been struck off or erased, whether such person shall have 
 a certificate of registration or not, unless he produces or 
 exhibits to such managers a proper certificate signed by 
 the Supervisor of Registration, showing that he has been 
 properly restored to said books subsequent to the date of 
 said erasure of his name from said books. 
 
 Sec. 197. Names May Be Restored to Registration 
 Books. All additions to, corrections and other entries in, 
 and all erasures of names, and the causes and dates there- 
 of, shall be made by the Supervisor in all three of the reg- 
 istration books belonging to each election district in his 
 county, so as to keep all three of said books at all times as 
 near as may be duplicates the one of the other; Provided,. 
 That when the name of any elector shall have been wrong- 
 fully or erroneously erased, the same shall be restored 
 by the Supervisor of Registration on application and 
 proofs to him, or may be restored by order of the Board 
 of County Commissioners, if the Supervisor, on applica- 
 tion and proofs, fails to do so. 
 
 Sec. 198. Renewal of Registration Certificate. Every 
 elector shall have the right to a renewal of his certificate 
 of registration without fee or charge when the same be- 
 comes defaced by time or accident, upon his surrendering 
 
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 'such certificate so defaced to the Supervisor of Begistra- 
 tion. Any elector who may lose his certificate of registra- 
 tion shall be entitled to* a renewal thereof by the Super- 
 visor of Ke-gistration of the county in which such elector 
 was registered, upon application therefor, and proof of 
 the loss, in the following manner : He shall at any time 
 before the next general election apply for a renewal of his 
 certificate, stating under oath, to be administered by the 
 Supervisor, the facts of his former registration and of 
 such loss, and that he has not sold, bartered or parted 
 with his certificate, and has not willfully destroyed or 
 lost it, which application the Supervisor shall examine 
 into, and if the facts therein alleged shall be sustained to 
 the satisfaction of the Supervisor, he shall issue to the 
 applicant a renewal of his certificate, marking or stamp- 
 ing across its face the word "Kenewal," and shall make 
 the proper entry in the registration books of the fact of 
 such renewal. The decision of the Supervisor in such 
 case, if it shall be against the application, shall be subject 
 to revision by the Board of County Commissioners, if he 
 be notified of such appeal to said board within three days 
 after notice to the applicant of the rejection of his appli- 
 cation. 
 
 Sec. 199. Transfer Certificate From One District* to 
 Another. In case of the removal of an elector from one 
 district to another district in the same county- such elec- 
 tor shall notify the Supervisor of Eegistration of such 
 change of residence, and shall surrender his certificate of 
 registration to such Supervisor, who shall at once enter 
 the fact in the proper registration books, and shall give, 
 without fee or charge, such elector a certificate of trans- 
 fer of registration in accordance with such change of resi- 
 dence. If such person was registered before a certificate 
 of registration was provided for by law, and therefore he 
 has no certificate, he shall be entitled to have his name 
 transferred as above provided for, and shall also receive 
 the certificate of transfer as above provided for. In case 
 of refusal or failure of any elector to notify the Super- 
 visor of his removal of his residence, as in this section 
 provided for, it shall be the duty of such Supervisor, upon 
 the facts of such removal being brought to his knowledge, 
 to erase the name of such person from the registration 
 books, and to note therein the cause and date of such 
 erasure. No elector, who, having been previously regis- 
 
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 tered, shall have removed from one district to another in 
 the same county, shall be allowed to register- nor shall he 
 be allowed to vote by the managers of any election, with- 
 out a certificate of transfer of registration as above pro- 
 vided. 
 
 Sec. 200. County Commissioners to Examine and Re- 
 vise Registration Books. It shall be the duty of the 
 County Commissioners of each county, on the first 
 Wednesday after the registration books are closed, as 
 provided for in this article, in every year in which there 
 is a general election, to examine and revise the registra- 
 tion books of said county, erasing therefrom the names 
 of all such as have died, or removed from the county, or 
 from one district to another in the same county, or who 
 are otherwise disqualified to vote, and restoring such 
 names as have been improperly taken off by the Super- 
 visor of Kegistration ; said examination and revision 
 shall be completed within three days thereafter, and im- 
 mediately the County Commissioners shall cause to be 
 published in a newspaper, if there be one published in 
 such county, and also post at the court house 
 door a list of the names alphabetically arranged, that 
 have been erased or stricken from the registration books 
 of each district in such county, either by the Supervisor 
 of Eegistration or said Board of County Commissioners, 
 and any person whose name shall have been wrongfully or 
 erroneously erased or stricken off, -and who shall' within 
 a time not less than ten days before the day of any gen- 
 eral election, to be held in such county, make such fact 
 appear to the satisfaction of said board, shall be entitled 
 to have his name restored to the registration books, and 
 the Supervisor of Kegistration, when so ordered by the 
 Board of County Commissioners, shall restore such name 
 or names to said books, with the date of replacement and 
 entries as to how or why such restoration was made, and 
 he shall, without charge, issue to said person or persons 
 a new certificate or certificates of registration, as pro- 
 vided for in Section 198, and it is hereby made the duty 
 of the County Commissioners of each county to hold such 
 special meetings as may be necessary from time to time 
 for carrying the provisions of this section into effect, 
 and they are authorized to require the County Treasurer 
 o pay such expenses as may be necessary in the perform- 
 ance of their duties; Provided, That in case any special 
 
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 election is held in any county of the State it shall be the 
 duty of the Board of County Commissioners to hold a 
 meeting at least fifteen days before said election and pro- 
 ceed to revise the registration list and give the notices 
 as provided, as in cases of general election in this article. 
 
 Seo. 21. Inspectors of Election To Be Furnished 
 a Copy of Registration Books. At each election the Su- 
 pervisor of Eegistration shall furnish the inspectors of 
 elections of each polling place in each election district 
 with one of the registration books for such district, the 
 Supervisor retaining in his office the other copy or dupli- 
 cate of such book that he has marked "Office Copy," as 
 provided in Section 196, for the care and custody of which 
 books so delivered to them, the inspectors receiving the 
 same shall be responsible, and which books they shall 
 return to the Supervisor of Eegistration within three 
 days after the close of the election. The Supervisor of 
 Registration shall not be authorized or required prior to 
 any election to furnish copies of the registration books of 
 his county or to allow indiscriminate handling or exami- 
 nation thereof by any one, but he shall at all times allow 
 any elector to examine as to the status of his own name 
 upon the books of the election district to which such 
 elector may belong. 
 
 Sec. 202. Poll Taxes. The Supervisor of Registration 
 shall note on the Registration books, which he shall fur- 
 nish to the inspectors of the different election districts, 
 the names of all persons registered therein who shall 
 have paid, on or before the second Saturday of the month 
 immediately preceding the day of election, their poll or 
 capitation taxes for two years next preceding the year in 
 which such election is held as shown by the lists furnished 
 to the Supervisor by the Tax Collector, and only such per- 
 sons shall be deemed qualified voters authorized to vote at 
 any general, special or municipal election ; Provided, That 
 no person shall be prevented from voting on account of 
 not having so paid a poll tax, for any year which shall 
 not have been lawfully assessable against him by reason 
 of his not having been of age or was over the age of 55 
 years, or who has lost a limb in battle, and who shall 
 have obtained from such Supervisor a certificate to that 
 effect, and shall at the time of offering to vote exhibit such 
 certificate to the inspectors of election. And it shall be 
 
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 the duty of such Supervisor upon proof being made to 
 him to give such certificate to such person, without cost 
 to such person, provided he is otherwise a duly qualiified 
 and registered voter. 
 
 Sec. 203. County Commissioners to Prepare Ballot 
 Boxes. The County Commissioners (or in case of a mu- 
 nicipal election the city or town council) shall cause to 
 be prepared or secured one ballot box for each polling 
 place in their respective counties' of sufficient size to re- 
 ceive and contain all the ballots of the particular precinct 
 or voting place for which it is intended, and it shall be 
 plainly marked or labeled with the name of the election 
 district or precinct or number thereof for which it is in- 
 tended. Before any general or special election they shall 
 place in said ballot box twice as many official ballots, so 
 printed by them, as there are registered qualified electors 
 in said election precinct, and after securely locking said 
 box, sealing up the keyhole theerof, and all other open- 
 ings, shall send the key thereof, in a sealed envelope, to 
 the inspector of election of said election district, together 
 with the box. The custodian shall be placed under oath 
 or affirmation to perform his commission faithfully and 
 impartially, without favor or prejudice to any political 
 party. 
 
 Sec. 204. Tax Collectors To Be in Office for Receiving 
 Poll Tares -for Certain Hours Preceding Election. The 
 Tax Collector of each county shall in person or by deputy 
 be present in his office from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. and from 
 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. each day, Sundays excented, for twenty 
 days immediately preceding the second Saturday of the 
 month preceding the day of any general or special elec- 
 tion, for the purpose of receiving all poll taxes properly 
 tendered to him, and he shall, as soon as practicable after 
 receiving the same, give receipts therefor in due form of 
 law. In which receipts shall be stated the color and age 
 of the elector and the number of the election district in 
 which such elector or person paying such poll tax re- 
 sides. The Tax Collector shall make a list of those who 
 have paid their poll taxes in each year prior to the sec- 
 ond Saturday of the month preceding the day in any year 
 in which any general or special election shall be held, and 
 such list shall be alphabetically arranged. The Tax Col- 
 lectors of the several counties of this State, within five 
 
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 days after the second Saturday in the month preceding 
 the day in any year in which any general or special elec- 
 tion shall be held, shall make a certified list in duplicate 
 of all persons who have paid their poll taxes for the two 
 years next preceding the year in which such election is 
 held, prior to the second Saturday in the month preceding 
 the day upon which such election shall be held, and one of 
 said lists shall be delivered by the Tax Collector as soon 
 as the same is completed to the Supervisor of Kegistra- 
 tion, to be filed in his office, and the other shall be for- 
 warded to the Comptroller of the State of Florida, which 
 he shall file in his office. 
 
 Sec. 205. Appointment of Inspectors and Clerks of 
 Election. For the purpose of carrying on and conducting 
 all such general and special elections, it shall be the duty 
 of the County Commissioners, in each county, at least 
 twenty days prior to the holding of any general or special 
 election therein, to appoint three intelligent, discreet and 
 fair-minded inspectors of election, and a clerk of election, 
 for each polling place in each and every election district 
 in such county, all of whom shall be residents and regis- 
 tered and qualified electors of the election district for 
 which they shall be appointed; all of whom shall not 
 belong to the same political party. The County Com- 
 missioners in each county shall cause the names of such 
 inspectors and clerks of election to be published in a 
 newspaper published in such county, if there be a newspa- 
 per printed in the county, or posted in a conspicuous 
 place at the court house, if there be no newspaper printed 
 in the county, for at least fifteen days before the day of 
 holding any general or special election in such county. 
 
 Sec. 206. Compensation of Inspectors and Clerks. 
 Inspectors and clerks of any special or general election 
 of any county shall be paid for their services by their 
 respective Board of County Commissioners, and the in- 
 spectors who carry the returns of such elections to their 
 county seat and properly deliver them shall receive two 
 dollars per day, and five cents per mile each way while 
 performing such service. No elector who cannot read and 
 write the English language shall be appointed inspector 
 or clerk of election. 
 
 Sec. 207. Filling Vacancies, Oaths, Majority To Co* 
 trol, Etc. In case of the absence or refusal to act of any 
 
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 of the inspectors or clerks of election appointed by the 
 Board of County Commissioners for any district or polling 
 place, the qualified electors present favoring the ticket 
 which the absent inspector, inspectors or clerk had been 
 chosen to represent, shall choose from among their num- 
 ber one inspector, inspectors or clerk as will, together 
 with the inspector, inspectors or clerk present, constitute 
 a board of four; Provided, The inspector, inspectors or 
 clerk so chosen shall (if any such be present) represent 
 the same political party that the absent inspector, inspec- 
 tors or clerk would represent if present, and the person or 
 persons so chosen shall be authorized to act as inspectors 
 or clerk of the election at the polling place where they 
 may be chosen, and said inspectors and clerk shall each 
 take and subscribe an oath or affirmation' which shall be 
 written or printed, to the effect that they will perform the 
 duties of inspectors and clerk of election according to 
 law, and will endeavor to prevent all fraud, deceit or 
 abuse, in conducting the same. 
 
 Such oath may be taken before any officer authorized 
 to administer oaths, or before either of the persons who 
 are to act as inspectors, one of them to swear the others, 
 and one of the others thus sworn in turn to administer 
 the oath to him who has not been sworn, and such oath 
 shall be returned with the poll list, and the returns of the 
 election to the Supervisor of Eegistration. One of the 
 inspectors shall be chosen by them as chairman of their 
 board. 
 
 (In any and all questions that may arise before said 
 inspectors of election, the decision of a majority of them 
 shall decide such question.) 
 
 Sec. 208. Polling Places. There shall be in each and 
 every election district in each county one polling place, 
 presided over and managed by a board of inspectors and 
 clerk of election, as provided for by law. At each of 
 said polling places a space, such as the inspectors of 
 election shall deem fit and sufficient, shall be railed off 
 and constructed, with an opening at one end or side for 
 entrance of the voter and an opening at the other for his 
 exit, as a polling place in which to hold the election. But 
 one voter shall be allowed to enter any polling place at 
 a time, and no one except the inspectors of the election 
 shall be allowed to speak to the voter while in the polling 
 place casting his vote- and no inspector shall speak to or 
 
interfere with any voter concerning the manner of his vot- 
 ing or any ballot he may vote, otherwise than to perform 
 his duties as such inspector specified herein. 
 
 Sec. 209. Time of Opening and Closing the Polls. The 
 polls shall be opened at such voting places at 8 o'clock 
 a. m., on the day of the election, and shall be kept open 
 until sundown of the same day, the time to be observed 
 for such opening and closing of the polls to be regulated 
 by the customary time in standard use in such locality. 
 The inspectors may, however, adjourn between 12 and 1 
 o'clock for half an hour. The inspectors shall make pub- 
 lic proclamation of the opening and closing of the polls, 
 and the mid-day adjournment. During the adjournment 
 the ballot box shall be kept in the possession of, and 
 in view of two of the inspectors, who shall not have the 
 key thereof, and during the election and canvass of the 
 vote the ballot box shall not be concealed from the public. 
 
 Sec. 210. Secret Ballot. In all elections hereafter held 
 in this State on any subject which may by law be sub- 
 mitted to a vote of the people, and for all, or any State, 
 county, district, or municipal officers, the voting shall be 
 by secret official ballots printed and distributed as herein- 
 after provided, and no ballot shall be received or counted 
 in anv election to which this act applies- except it be 
 provided as herein prescribed. 
 
 Sec. 211. Pay for Printing Ballots. The printing and 
 delivery of ballots and cards of instruction to voters here- 
 inafter prescribed shall in municipal elections be paid for 
 by the several cities or towns respectively, and in all other 
 elections by the several counties respectively. 
 
 Sec. 212. County Commissioners or City or Town Conn 
 cil to Print Names of Candidates on Tickets, Etc. The 
 Board of County Commissioners (or in case of a munici- 
 pal election the city or town council) of each county shall 
 cause to be printed on the ballots to be used in their 
 respective counties the names of all candidates who have 
 been put in nomination by any caucus, convention, mass- 
 meeting, primary election or other assembly of any politi 
 cal party or faction in this State and certified and filed 
 with them not more than sixty nor less than twenty days 
 previous to the day of election, which certificate shall 
 
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 contain the name of each person nominated, and the office 
 for which he is nominated, and shall be signed by the 
 presiding officer and secretary of such caucus, conven- 
 tion, mass-meeting or other assembly, or by the can- 
 vassing board of such primary election, and be duly ac- 
 knowledged by one or more of them before any officer 
 authorized by law to take the acknowledgments. The 
 Board of County Commissioners (or in case of a munici- 
 pal election, the city or town council) shall also cause 
 to be printed upon said ballots the name of any qualified 
 elector who has been requested to be a candidate for any 
 office by written peition signed, in case of a candidate for 
 a State or Federal office, by at least five hundred electors, 
 in case of a county or municipal office- by at least twenty- 
 five qualified electors to vote in the election to fill said 
 office, when such petition has been filed with them not 
 more than sixty days nor less than twenty days previous 
 to the election. And in addition to the names printed upon 
 said ballot, and whether there be any names printed on 
 said ballots or not, there shall be printed under each 
 office to be voted for at the election, blank lines in num- 
 ber equal to the number of persons who may be elected 
 to fill that office. 
 
 Sec. 213. When Name Not To Be Printed on Ticket. 
 The name of no person shall be printed on the ballot who 
 shall, not less than twenty days before the election, notify 
 the Board of County Commissioners, in writing, acknowl- 
 edged before an officer authorized by law to take acknowl- 
 edgments, that he will not accept the nomination specified 
 in the certificate of nomination or request of electors. 
 
 Sec. 214. Substituting Candidate. When any person 
 who has been regularly nominated and who shall decline 
 to run for the office to which he has been nominated, the 
 party by which such person was nominated shall be al- 
 lowed five days after such declination to run by such 
 person, in which to substitute another candidate. 
 
 Sec. 215. Secretary of State To Certifiy Nominations. 
 In case of any person to be voted for by the electors of 
 the whole State, or of any entire Congressional District, 
 such certificate of nomination shall be filed in the office 
 of the Secretary of State not less than thirty days before 
 the day of election, and such Secretary of State shall 
 
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 thereupon immediately certify to the Board of County 
 Commissioners of each county in the State in case of an 
 officer to be voted for by the electors of the whole State, 
 and to the Boards of County Commissioners of the counties 
 composing the Congressional District in case of an officer 
 to be voted for by the electors of such district, upon suita- 
 ble blanks to be prepared by him for that purpose, the 
 fact of such nomination and the name of the nominee or 
 nominees- and the name of the office to which he or they 
 may be nominated, and the name of such person shall be 
 printed by the Board of County Commissioners upon the 
 ballot in its proper place in all respects as herein pro- 
 vided for nomination filed in the office of the Board of 
 County Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 216. Preservation of Certificates and Petitions of 
 Nominations. The Board of County Commissioners shall 
 cause to be preserved in the office of the Clerk of the Cir- 
 cuit Court all certificates and petitions of nominations 
 filed therein under the provisions of this act for six 
 months after the election for which such nominations are 
 made. 
 
 Sec. 217. Order of Titles and Names on Ballots. The 
 ballots printed in accordance with the provisions of this 
 act shall contain the names of all candidates nominated 
 as hereinbefore provided who have not declined. The 
 names of all candidates for the same office shall be print- 
 ed together, irrespective of party. But the order in which 
 the titles to the several offices to be filled shall be ar- 
 ranged upon the ballots, shall be left to the discretion of 
 the officer charged with the printing of the said ballots. 
 
 Sec. 218. Constitutional Amendment. Whenever a 
 constitutional amendment or other public measure is 
 submitted to the vote of the people, the substance of each 
 amendment or other public measure shall be twice in the 
 same language indicated upon the ballot after the list of 
 candidates, followed in one case by the word "yes,' and in 
 the other case by the word "no." (Chapter 5405, Appen- 
 dix). Section 1. Whenever an amendment or amend- 
 ments to the Constitution of this State are to be voted 
 upon at any election the County Commissioners of each 
 and every county in this State shall have any such amend- 
 ment or amendments printed in clear and legible type 
 
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 and a copy thereof conspicuously posted at each voting 
 precinct in such county upon the day of election. Such 
 printed amendments to be furnished the County Com- 
 missioners by the Secretary of State. Sec. 2. Nothing 
 in this act shall be construed as repealing the law requir- 
 ing constitutional amendments to be published in a news- 
 paper in each county of the State. 
 
 Sec. 219. Directions for Printing, Etc., of Ballot. All 
 ballots provided by the Board of County Commissioners 
 of any county for an election shall be alike, printed in 
 plain type in straight lines, upon plain white paper so 
 thick that the printing cannot be distinguished from the 
 back, with a slender line between each name, and extend- 
 ing sufficiently to the left of the names to easily permit 
 marking before each name a cross mark (X), and in the 
 appropriate place the words, "vote for one" (or two, or 
 other number, as the case may be), to indicate the num- 
 bers which may be elected to each office, and shall be sub- 
 stantially in the form prescribed in Section 220 (except 
 that the order in which the several offices to be filled are 
 stated, may be varied). Provided, That nothing in the 
 section shall be construed to prohibit the names of the 
 several candidates for National, State and County offices, 
 and other matters to be voted on being printed in the 
 same order as now and in one or more columns on the 
 same ballot. 
 
 Sec. 220. Form of Ballot. Official ballot, election, 
 A. D. 190 (year to be printed). Precinct No. ... 
 County (Precinct and county to be printed). (Make a 
 cross mark (X) before the name of the candidate of your 
 choice). 
 
 For Governor. 
 
 Vote for one: 
 
 William Jones. 
 
 John Smith. 
 
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 For Secretary of State. 
 Vote for one: 
 
 William King. 
 
 Thomas Moore. 
 
 James Simpson. 
 
 For Sheriff. 
 Vote for one : 
 
 Thomas Jones. 
 
 George Smith. 
 James White. 
 
 For Representative in Gen- 
 eral Assembly. 
 
 Vote for one (or more as 
 
 the case may be) : 
 William Daniels. 
 
 John Doe. 
 
 Constitutional Amendment, 
 
 Article , Section 
 
 Yes. 
 
 No. 
 
 Constitutional Amendment, 
 
 Article , Section 
 
 Yes. 
 
 No. 
 
 Sec. 221. Ballots To Be Fastened Together. All bal- 
 lots for use in each precinct or ward shall be fastened 
 together in convenient numbers in books or blocks, in 
 
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 such manner that each ballot may be detached and re- 
 moved separately. Each ballot shall have attached to it 
 a stub with perforated lines of sufficient size to enable 
 one of the inspectors to write or stamp his name or his 
 initials thereon, and so attached to the ballots that when 
 the same is folded the stub can be detached therefrom 
 without injury to the ballot or exposing the contents 
 thereof. 
 
 Sec. 222. Number of Ballot for Each Vot4ng Place. 
 There shall be provided for each voting place at least 
 one hundred ballots for each fifty registered qualified 
 electors at said polling place. 
 
 Sec. 223. Booths. The County Commissioners of each 
 county (or in case of a municipal election, the Mayor or 
 other chief executive officer), shall provide at each polling 
 place a room or covered enclosure, and in such place or 
 covered enclosure shall provide booths or compartments, 
 one booth or compartment for each one hundred or frac- 
 tion of one hundred over fifty qualified electors registered 
 for that election, and furnish each with a shelf or table 
 for the convenience of electors preparing 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 to see an elector at a shelf or table in 
 another compartment in the act of marking his ballot. 
 Each voting table or shelf shall be kept supplied with 
 conveniences for marking the ballots. 
 
 Sec. 224. Public Excluded From Voting Place. No 
 person shall be permitted under any pretext whatever to 
 come within fifteen feet of any door or window of any 
 polling room from the opening of the polls until the com- 
 pletion of the count of the ballots and certificates of re- 
 turns, except as herein provided. 
 
 Sec. 225. Instructions for Electors. The Board of 
 County Commissioners (or in case of a municipal elec- 
 tion, the city or town council) of each county shall cause 
 to be printed in large type on cards, instructions for the 
 guidance of electors in preparing their ballots. They 
 shall furnish to the inspectors twelve, or more if neces- 
 sary, such cards for each precinct or ward, and it shall 
 be the duty of the inspectors to post one of such cards in 
 
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 each, booth or compartment for the preparation of bal- 
 lots, and not less than three in prominent places else^ 
 where and outside of the polling place on the day of elec- 
 tion. Said cards shall be printed in large, clear type, 
 and shall contain full instructions to electors, as to what 
 shall be done. First, to obtain ballots for voting ; second, 
 to prepare the ballot for deposit in the ballot box ; third, 
 to obtain a new ballot in the place of one accidentally 
 spoiled. 
 
 Sec. 226. Not To Go Within Fifteen Feet of Polling 
 Places. Except as electors are admitted, one at a time, 
 to vote, and except the Sheriff or his deputy, the inspec- 
 tors and clerks of election, and as many electors as there 
 may be booths or compartments, no person shall be per- 
 mitted within fifteen feet of the polling place. No Sheriff, 
 deputy sheriff or city policeman shall enter the polling 
 place without permission from a majority of the inspec- 
 tors of the election, except to cast his own ballot. 
 
 Sec. 227. Challenges. When the right to vote of any 
 person who demands to be permitted to vote is questioned 
 by an elector, the said challenge shall be communicated 
 to the inspectors before the person is permitted to vote by 
 the Sheriff, or some other officer or person in attendance 
 and in charge of admission to the polling place, when his 
 right to vote must be determined as required by law. 
 
 Sec. 228. To Occupy Booths Alone and for Only Five 
 Minutes. No elector, while receiving, preparing and cast- 
 ing his ballot, shall occupy a booth or compartment for a 
 longer time than five minutes. No elector shall be al- 
 lowed to occupy a booth or compartment already occu- 
 pied by another, nor to speak or converse with any one, 
 except as herein provided, while in the polling place. 
 
 Sec. 229. To Enter Polling Places for Voting Only. 
 After having voted, or declined or failed to vote within 
 five minutes, the elector shall immediately withdraw from 
 the place and go beyond the prohibited distance, and shall 
 not enter the polling place again. 
 
 Sec. 230. Voting. Each elector upon entering the poll- 
 ing place shall be given one ballot by the inspectors. 
 Before delivering the ballot to the elector, at least one of 
 
the inspectors shall write in his own hand his initials or 
 name on the stub attached to the ballot. On receiving 
 the ballot, the elector shall forthwith, and without leav- 
 ing the polling place, retire alone to one of the booths 
 or compartments provided for that purpose, and there 
 prepare his ballot by marking with pen and ink or pencil, 
 in the appropriate margin or place, a cross mark "X" 
 before the name of the candidate of his choice for each 
 office to be filled, or by filling in the name of the candidate 
 of his choice in the blank space provided therefor, and 
 marking the cross mark "X" in the appropriate margin, 
 and likewise by marking the cross "X" before the answer 
 he desires in case of a constitutional amendment or other 
 question submitted to a vote of the people. 
 
 Sec. 231. Who May Have Assistance in Preparing Bal- 
 lot. Any elector applying to vote who by reason of blind- 
 ness or the loss of the use of his hand or hands is unable 
 to prepare his ballot, may have the assistance of the in- 
 spectors in the preparation of his ballot, who shall retire 
 to a booth or compartment with the elector and there pre- 
 pare the elector's ballot, so as to indicate the elector's 
 declared choice of candidates as to each office to be filled, 
 without suggestion or interference from inspectors. But 
 in all cases any elector before retiring to the booth as pro- 
 vided in this section may have one of the clerks of the 
 election to read over to him the titles of the offices to be 
 filled and the candidates therefor. 
 
 Sec. 232. Elector Declaring His Choice. Before any 
 elector applying for assistance in the preparation of his 
 ballot, as provided for in the preceding section, shall be 
 required or permitted to declare his choice of candidates, 
 all electors, including those in the booths or compart- 
 ments, after voting shall be required to withdraw from 
 the voting place. 
 
 Sec. 233. Spoiled Ballots. Any elector who shall by 
 accident or mistake, spoil a ballot so that he cannot con- 
 veniently or safely vote the same, may return it to the 
 inspectors, who shall immediately detach the stub and 
 destroy, without examination, the ballot so returned, and 
 shall give to the elector another ballot in lieu thereof, 
 but in no case shall an elector be furnished with more 
 than three ballots. In no case shall any person be per- 
 
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 mited to carry a ballot outside of the polling room. A 
 record shall be kept by the clerk of election of all ballots 
 destroyed, as herein provided for. 
 
 Sec. 234. Depositing Ballot. After preparing his bal- 
 lot the elector shall fold the same so as to conceal the 
 face thereof and show the stub thereto attached with the 
 name or initials of the inspector, and hand it to the re- 
 ceiving inspector, who shall detach the stub therefrom 
 and return the ballot to the elector, who shall deposit the 
 ballot in the ballot box in the presence of the inspectors. 
 All stubs detached from ballots as provided for in this 
 section shall be numbered consecutively and filed by the 
 inspectors. 
 
 Sec. 235. Marking More Names Than Persons To Be 
 Elected. If the elector marks more names than there are 
 persons to be elected to an office, or if for any reason it 
 it impossible to determine the elector's choice for any 
 office to be filled, his ballot shall not be counted for such 
 office, but this shall not vitiate the ballot, so far as prop- 
 erly marked, and nothing herein shall be construed to pre- 
 vent any elector from voting for any qualified person 
 other than those whose names are printed on the ballot. 
 
 Sec. 236. Clerk To Keep List of Those Voting. When 
 any person shall have voted, his name shall be checked on 
 the margin of the page opposite thereto upon the registra- 
 tion books by one of the inspectors, and the clerk of elec- 
 tion shall keep a poll list, which shall contain one column 
 headed "names of voters/' and the name of each elector 
 voting shall be entered by the clerk in such column as he 
 votes. And the inspectors of election shall have the au- 
 thority and power to prevent all repeating, and to pre- 
 vent any person from voting a second time at the same 
 election when they have good reason to believe such per- 
 son has already voted. They shall have full power to 
 refuse to allow any person to vote who is not a qualified 
 elector, or who has become disqualified for any cause to 
 vote in such election district. They may also prevent any 
 elector from consuming more time than five minutes in 
 voting. But no inspector shall examine, read or handle 
 the ballot being voted or about to be voted by an elector, 
 or interfere in any way with the voting of any elector 
 otherwise than is herein provided- 
 
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 Sec. 237. Inspectors To Maintain Good Order. The in- 
 spectors shall possess full authority to maintain gopd 
 order at the polls, and enforce obedience to their lawful 
 commands during an election, and during the canvass 
 and estimate of the votes. 
 
 Sec. 238. Deputy Sheriff at Each Polling Place. There 
 shall be at each polling place in each election district a 
 deputy sheriff, to be deputized for such purpose by the 
 Sheriff of the county, who shall be required to be present 
 during the whole time that the polls are kept open, and 
 until the election is completed, who shall be subjected to 
 all lawful commands of the inspectors, and who shall see 
 that there is no interruption of good order. Such deputy 
 shall have power, when necessary to maintain the peace, 
 to summon a posse from among the bystanders to aid 
 him in maintaining the peace and good order at the polls. 
 
 Sec. 239. Sheriff and Other Officers Not Allowed in 
 Polling Places. No Sheriff, deputy sheriff, policeman or 
 other officer shall be allowed to come within the polling 
 place unless summoned into the same by a majority of the 
 inspectors. On failure of any Sheriff, deputy sheriff, 
 policeman or other officer to comply with the provisions 
 of this section, it shall be the duty of inspectors of elec- 
 tion, or one of them, to make affidavit against such Sheriff, 
 deputy sheriff, policeman or other officer for their arrest. 
 
 Sec. 240. Barrooms To Be Closed. All barrooms, sa- 
 loons and other places for the sale of liquors by retail 
 shall be closed at 6 o'clock of the evening preceding the 
 day of any election, and shall remain closed until 6 
 o'clock in the morning of the day thereafter. And during 
 the time aforesaid, the sale of all intoxicating liquors is 
 prohibited. 
 
 Sec. 241. Canvass of Ballots. At the close of the elec- 
 tion at each polling place in each election district the 
 inspectors and clerk shall immediately proceed to open 
 the ballot box, and, in the presence of the public, if there 
 be any present who desire to witness said canvass, count 
 the ballots therein, and continue said count without ad- 
 journment or interruption until the same is completed. 
 The ballots shall be first counted, and if the number of 
 ballots shall exceed the number of persons who shall have 
 
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 Voted, as may appear by the poll list kept by the clerk, 
 and by the stubs detached by the inspectors, the ballots 
 shall be replaced in the box and one of the inspectors 
 shall publicly draw out and destroy, unopened and unex- 
 amined, as many of such ballots as shall be equal to such 
 excess. If two or more ballots shall be found folded to- 
 gether, so as to present the appearance of a single ballot, 
 they shall be laid aside until the count of the ballots is 
 completed, and if, upon comparison of the count, and 
 the appearance of such ballots, a majority of the inspec- 
 tors shall be of the opinion that the ballots thus folded 
 together were voted by one person, such ballots shall be 
 destroyed. 
 
 Sec. 242. Proclamation of Result' and Returns. The 
 canvass being completed, the result shall be publicly pro- 
 claimed. Duplicate certificates of the result of such elec- 
 tion shall be drawn up by the inspectors or clerk at each 
 and every election district, which shall contain in words 
 written at full length the name of each person voted for 
 for each office, and the number of votes cast for each 
 person for such office, and if any question shall be sub- 
 mitted to an election, such certificate shall also contain 
 the number of votes cast for and against such question, 
 which certificate shall be signed by the inspectors and 
 clerk, and one of such certificates shall be by one of the 
 inspectors delivered, without delay, securely sealed, to the 
 Supervisor of Eegistration, and the other to the County 
 Judge of the county; and the poll lists and oaths of the 
 inspectors and clerks, together with all ballot boxes, bal 
 lots, ballot stubs, memoranda and papers of all kinds used 
 by the inspectors and clerk in conducting such election 
 shall also be transmitted, sealed up by the inspectors, with 
 the certificates of the result of the election, to the Super- 
 visor of Kegistration, to be filed in his office. 
 
 See. 243. Canvass of Returns. On the sixth day after 
 any election, or sooner if the returns shall have been re- 
 ceived, it shall be the duty of the County Judge and the 
 Supervisor of Registration to meet at the office of the said 
 Supervisor of Eegistration, and take to their assistance 
 the chairman or other member of the Board of County 
 Commissioners, and in case of absence, sickness, refusal 
 to act, or other disability of the County Judge or Super- 
 visor of Registration, another member of the Board of 
 
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 County Commissioners, who shall be designated by the 
 Chairman of said board, shall act in his place, who shall 
 constitute and be the County Canvassing Board of Elec- 
 tions, and they shall publicly proceed to canvass the 
 vote given for the several offices, and the persons 
 as shown by the returns on file in the offices of such 
 County Judge and Supervisor of Registration. Such 
 canvass shall be made solely, exclusively and entirely 
 from the returns of certificates of the inspectors in each 
 election district, as signed and filed by them with the 
 County Judge and Supervisor of Eegistration respec- 
 tively, and in no case shall the Board of County Can- 
 vassers change or vary in any manner the number of votes 
 cast for the candidates, respectively, in any polling place 
 in the county, as shown by the returns of the inspectors 
 of such polling place. 
 
 Sec. 244. Certificate of Result of Canvass. They shall 
 compile the result of the election, as shown by said inspec- 
 tors' returns, and shall then make and sign duplicate cer- 
 tificates containing in words and figures, written at full 
 length, the whole number of votes given for each office, 
 the names of the persons for whom such votes were given 
 for such office, and the number of votes given for each per- 
 son for such office. Such certificates shall be recorded by 
 the Supervisor of Eegistration in a book to be kept by 
 him for that purpose, which book shall be furnished by 
 the Board of County Commissioners and shall be labeled 
 "Keoord of- Elections Keturns," and one of such duplicates 
 shall immediately be transmitted by mail or by express to 
 the Secretary of State and the other to the Governor of 
 the State. The Supervisor of Registration shall transmit 
 by mail to the Secretary of State, immediately after the 
 County Canvassing Board shall have canvassed the re- 
 turns for State and county officers, a list giving the names 
 of all county officers elected, the office for which each was 
 elected, with the postoffice address of such county officers- 
 elect, in their respective counties. 
 
 Sec. 245. Supervisor of Registration To Give Certifi- 
 cates to Persons Elected. In case any county officer shall 
 be elected at any election, the Supervisor of Registration 
 shall give to the person who shall be elected a certificate 
 of his election, and the Supervisor of Registration shall 
 
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 give to any person desiring a copy of such, returns from 
 the record a certified copy thereof, or of such, part thereof 
 as may be desired, upon payment to him of the customary 
 fees for copying and certifying papers in the office of the 
 Clerk of the Circuit Court. 
 
 Sec. 246. When Canvass Made in Certain Counties. 
 For the counties of Monroe, Dade, Brevard, Manatee, 
 Osceola and DeSoto, in case the returns of the election 
 held in such counties shall not be received by the Judge 
 and Supervisor of Eegistration within six (6) days after 
 the close of any election, the county canvass shall be made 
 as soon thereafter as said returns shall be received by the 
 County Judge or Supervisor of Registration, and within 
 twenty days after said election. 
 
 Sec. 247. Persons Receiving Highest Number of Votes 
 Elected. The person who shall receive the highest num- 
 ber of votes cast for one office shall be elected to such 
 office. In case two or more persons shall receive an equal 
 and the highest number of votes for the same office, an- 
 other election therefor shall be held upon the order of 
 the Governor, as in other cases of special elections. 
 
 Sec. 248. Board of State Canvassers. On the thirty- 
 fifth day after the holding of any general or special elec- 
 tion for any State officer, member of the Legislature or 
 Representative in Congress, or sooner if the returns shall 
 have been received from the several counties wherein 
 elections shall have been held, the Secretary of State, the 
 Comptroller and the Attorney General, or any two of 
 them, together with any other administrative officer of the 
 executive department who may be designated by them, 
 shall meet at the office of the Secretary of State, pur- 
 suant to notice to be given by the Secretary of State, and 
 they shall be a Board of State Canvassers, and as such 
 shall proceed to canvass the returns of said election and 
 determine and declare who shall have been elected for 
 such office, or as such member, as shown by such returns. 
 
 Sec. 249. False and Fraudulent Returns. If any re- 
 turns shall be shown or shall appear to be so irregular, 
 false or fraudulent that the board shall be unable to de- 
 termine the true vote for any such officer or member, they 
 shall so certify; and shall not include such returns in 
 
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 their determination, canvass and declaration. And the 
 Secretary of State shall file and preserve in his office 
 all such returns, together with such other documents and 
 papers as may have fyeen received by him, or by said 
 Board of Canvassers. The said Board of State Canvass- 
 ers shall canvass the returns for Presidential Electors 
 and Representatives to the Congress of the United States 
 separately and distinct from their canvass of the returns 
 for the State officers and members of the Legislature. 
 
 Sec. 250. What Certificates To Contain. They shall 
 make and sign separate and distinct certificates of the 
 result of the election for national officers and for said State 
 officers, which certificates shall contain, in words writ- 
 ten at full length, the whole number of votes given for 
 each person for each office, and for member of the Legis- 
 lature and State Senator, and therein declare the result, 
 which certificates, the one including the result of the 
 election for Presidential Electors and Representatives to 
 Congress, and the other including the result of the elec- 
 tion for State officers, members of the Legislature and 
 State Senators, shall be recorded in the office of the Sec- 
 retary of State, in a book to be kept by him for that pur- 
 pose. And the Secretary of State shall cause a certified 
 copy of each of said certificates to be published once in 
 one or more newspapers printed at the capital of the 
 State. 
 
 Sec. 251. Secretary of State To Make Cert4ficate and 
 Transmit to Person Elected. The Secretary of State 
 shall make and transmit to each person chosen to any 
 State office, immediately after the State canvass, a certifi- 
 cate showing the number of votes cast for each person for 
 such office at such election, which certificate shall be 
 prima facie evidence of his election to such office. 
 
 Sec. 252. Presidential Electors and Representatives to 
 Conqress. When any person shall be elected to the office 
 of Elector of President and Vice-President, or Represent- 
 ative in the Congress of the United States, the Governor 
 shall make out, si-gn and cause to be sealed with the seal 
 of the State, and transmit to such person, a certificate of 
 his election to such office. 
 
 Sec. 253. Blanks and Forms, and Election Laws. The 
 Secretary of State is hereby required to cause to be pre- 
 
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 pared all proper blanks and forms for the use of inspec- 
 tors of election and for county canvassers, conformable 
 to the provisions of this chapter, and he shall, at least 
 sixty days before any general election, transmit to the 
 Supervisor of Registration of each county a sufficient 
 number thereof for the several polling places in each elec- 
 tion district within each county; and shall also have 
 printed a sufficient number of the laws regulating general 
 elections to supply the several counties and polling places 
 in each election district in said counties, and transmit the 
 same with the forms aforesaid; and the Supervisor of 
 Registration in each county shall furnish to the inspec- 
 tors of election at each polling place at each election dis- 
 trict in such county a sufficient number of such forms and 
 copies of election laws for the use of such inspectors at 
 the election. 
 
 Sec. 254. Temporary Change of Polling Place in Case 
 of an Epidemic. Nothing in this chapter shall be so con- 
 strued as to prohibit the County Commissioners in any 
 county at any time, in case an epidemic shall exist in any 
 city or town in such county, at the time of holding any 
 election in such county, from establishing at any safe and 
 convenient point outside of such infected locality proper 
 additional polling places for the electors resident in the 
 infected district, at which polling places the electors of 
 such infected district shall be allowed to vote, if properly 
 qualified otherwise, and in such cases the registration 
 books belonging in such infected districts shall be applica- 
 ble to and shall be used at such polling places thus estab- 
 lished. 
 
 PENALTIES. 
 
 3812. Penalty for Destroying Booth. Any person who 
 wilfully, during or before an election, removes, tears 
 down, or destroys, or defaces any booth or compartment, 
 or other convenience provided for the purpose of enabling 
 the elector to prepare his ballot, or any card printed for 
 the instruction of electors, shall be fined not less than 
 ten nor more than five hundred dollars. 
 
 3813. Saloons To Be Closed. All barrooms, saloons, 
 and other places for the sale of liquors by retail, shall be 
 closed at 6 o'clock of the evening preceding the day of 
 
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 any election, and shall remain closed until 6 o'clock in 
 the morning of the day thereafter. And during the time 
 aforesaid, the sale of all intoxicating liquors is prohibited. 
 Any person who shall be convicted of a violation of this 
 section shall be punished by a fine not less than one hun- 
 derd nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprison- 
 ment not less than three months nor more than six 
 months. 
 
 3814. Penalty for Deceiving Elector in Preparing Bal- 
 lot. Any inspector who shall wilfully deceive any elector 
 in preparing his ballot shall, on conviction thereof, be 
 imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more 
 than five years. 
 
 3815. (2784.) Changing Elector's Ballot. Whoever 
 fraudulently and deceitfully changes the vote or ballot of 
 any elector, by which such elector shall be prevented from 
 voting such ballot, or for such person as he intended, 
 shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding six 
 months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. 
 
 3816. Penalty for Disclosing How an Elector Votes. 
 Any inspector who shall disclose how any elector may 
 have voted, unless upon a trial in a court of competent 
 jurisdiction he may be so required, shall be fined not less 
 than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 3817. (2782). Calling Out Militia on Election Day. 
 If any officer or other person shall call out or order out 
 any of the militia of this State to appear and exercise 
 on any day during an election, except in cases of invasion 
 or insurrection, or except in obedience to some civil mag- 
 istrate to suppress riots or to enforce the law, he shall be 
 fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be deprived 
 of his office. 
 
 3818. Penalty for Neglect of Duty ~by Deputy Sheriff, 
 or Other Officer. Any deputy sheriff or other officer who 
 shall wilfully neglect or refuse to perform any duty im- 
 posed on him by the laws of Florida relating to elections 
 at the time or within the time therein specified, shall be 
 punished by a fine or not more than five hundred dollars 
 or by imprisonment not more than six months. 
 
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 3819. Violation of Duty ty County Canvassing Board. 
 Any member of the County Canvassers of Election who 
 shall wilfully violate any of the provisions of law relating 
 to canvassing the result of any election shall be pun- 
 ished by fine not less than two hundred and fifty dollars 
 nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisonment in 
 the State penitentiary not more than three years. 
 
 3820. Supervisor of Registration Failing To Deliver 
 Books and Papers to Successor. Any Supervisor of Keg- 
 istration who wilfully fails or refuses to promptly com- 
 ply with the demand "of his successor for the delivery of 
 the registration books and papers and blanks connected 
 with or belonging to his office, shall be punished by a fine 
 not to exceed one thousand dollars or by imprisonment 
 not exceeding eix months. 
 
 3821. District Registration Officer Failing To Deliver 
 Books and Papers. Any district registration officer who 
 shall wilfully fail or refuse to promply comply with the 
 demands of the Supervisor of ^Registration to deliver up 
 the registration books and papers, shall be punished by 
 fine not exceeding five hundred doUars or imprisonment 
 not exceeding six months. 
 
 3822. Taw Collector Failing to Report the Poll Tax 
 Paid Him. Any Tax Collector or any deputy tax collec- 
 tor who shall fail or refuse to comply with Section 204, 
 or with any of the provisions of the election law, shall 
 be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars 
 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year. 
 
 3823. Penalty -for False Certificate. Any person who 
 shall falsely make or fraudulently destroy any certificate 
 of nomination or any part thereof, or file any certificate 
 of nomination, knowing the same, or any part thereof, to 
 be false, or suppress any nomination which has been duly 
 filed, or any part thereof, shall be imprisoned in the peni- 
 tentiary not less than one nor more than five years. 
 
 3824. Secretary of State Failing To CerUfy Nomina- 
 tion. The Secretary of State who shall wilfully fail or 
 refuse to certify the nomination as provided by law shall 
 be fined not more than one thousand dollars; and in 
 
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 event of such failure or refusal, such certificate shall be 
 made by the State Comptroller. 
 
 3825. Penalty for Officers After Being Sworn In. 
 Any officer or officers after being sworn in who wilfully 
 and knowingly neglects, fails or refuses to perform the 
 duties prescribed in the laws regulating election, shall be 
 fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dol- 
 lars, or by imprisonment not less than sixty days, nor 
 more than six months, unless otherwise provided by law. 
 
 3826. (2383.) Corruptly, Etc., Influencing Elector. 
 Whoever by bribery, menace, threat or other corrupt 
 means or device whatsoever, either directly or indirectly, 
 attempts to influence any elector in this State in giving 
 his vote or ballot or to deter him from giving the same, 
 or disturbs or injures him in the free exercise of the right 
 of suffrage at any election within this State, shall be 
 punished by imprisonment not exceeding six months or 
 by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. 
 
 3827. (2785.) Destroying Ballots. Whoever on any 
 day between the commencement of any .election and the 
 close of the canvass thereof by the inspectors, fraudulent- 
 ly destroys any of the ballots given and received at said 
 election, or takes away or abstracts from any ballot box 
 any of the ballots so given or received, or puts into such 
 ballot box any ballots except such as are properly voted 
 by the electors, or in any manner wilfully intermingles 
 with the ballots which shall have been voted by the elec- 
 tors any other ballots, or tickets, which shall have not 
 been duly received by the inspectors during the election, 
 shall be punished by imprisonment in the State prison not 
 exceeding one year or by fine not exceeding five hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 3828. (2786.) False Swearing to Elector's Qualifica- 
 tions. Whoever is guilty of wilful and corrupt false 
 swearing, or affirming, when interrogated as to his quali- 
 fications as an elector, or when his testimony may be 
 required in any contested election, or whoever wilfully 
 and corruptly procures another person to swear or affirm 
 falsely as aforesaid, shall suffer the pains and penalties 
 of perjury. 
 
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 3829. Making False Declaration To Secure Assistance 
 in Preparing Ballot. Any person who makes a false dec- 
 laration under the provisions of law providing for assist- 
 ance in the preparation of his ballot in any election shall 
 be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor 
 more than five years. 
 
 3830. (2787.) Casting Illegal Ballot. Whoever casts 
 knowingly an illegal vote at any election in this State 
 held according to law, -shall be punished by imprisonment 
 in the State prison not exceeding six months, or by fine 
 not exceeding one hundred dollars. 
 
 (Applies to municipal elections. Ex parte Senior, 37 
 Fla., 1; 19 So. Eep. 652.) 
 
 3831. (2788.) Casting More Than One Ballot. Who- 
 ever casts more than one ballot at the same election shall 
 be punished by imprisonment not exceeding three months, 
 or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. 
 
 3832. (2789.) Registered Voter Changing Name. No 
 regisered voter shall call himself or pass by anv other 
 name than the name by which he is registered. Nothing 
 in this section shall prevent the alteration of names by 
 the Circuit Court as provided by law, and when the name 
 of any one is changed by the order of said court he shall 
 notify the County Commissioners of the fact that his 
 name has been changed. Any one violating this section 
 shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars, and upon con- 
 viction a second time shall be imprisoned in the State 
 prison not exceeding one year. 
 
 3833. (2790.) Betting on Result of Election. Who- 
 ever makes or becomes directly or indirectly interested in 
 any bet or wager, the result of which shall depend upon 
 any election, shall be punished by fine not exceeding three 
 hundred dollars: Provided, Such bet or wager or the 
 becoming interested therein, shall occur on or before the 
 day of holding such election. 
 
 3834. Failure To Assist* Deputy Sheriffs at Polls 
 Any person, when summoned or called upon by the Sheriff 
 or deputy sheriff, who shall fail or refuse to assist him in 
 maintaining the peace and good order at the polls shall 
 
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 be fined in a sum not to exceed two hundred and fifty 
 dollars, or be imprisoned not to exceed six months. 
 
 3835. Ballot Not To Be Seen; and Other Offenses. 
 Any elector who shall, except as provided by law, allow 
 his ballot to be seen by any person, or who shall take or 
 remove or attempt to take or remove any ballot from the 
 polling place before the close of the polls, or place any 
 mark upon his ballot by which it may be identified, or 
 take into the election booth any mechanical device, ticket 
 or memorandum, printed or written, other than the offi- 
 cial ballot or ticket to enable him to mark said ballot 
 or ticket, or any person who shall interfere with any elec- 
 tor when inside of the polling place or when marking his 
 ballot, or unduly influence or attempt to unduly influence 
 any elector in the preparation of his ballot, or any elector 
 who shall remain longer than the specified time allowed 
 by law in the booth or compartment after having been 
 notified that his time has expired, or who shall endeavor 
 to induce any elector to show how he marks or has marked 
 his ballot, or aids or attempts to aid any elector by any 
 means of any mechanical device whatever in marking his 
 ballot, or shall print or procure to be printed or have in 
 his possession any copy of any ballot prepared to be 
 voted, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one 
 hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not more than three 
 months. Any ballot marked by the elector for identifica- 
 tion shall be rejected. 
 
 3836. To Prevent the Use of Money for Political Purposes 
 by Corporations. No foreign or non-resident corporation 
 or corporations organized under the laws of the United 
 States doing business in this State, nor any domestic corpo- 
 ration, shall pay or contribute, or offer, consent or agree to 
 pay or contribute, directly or indirectly, any money, prop- 
 erty or thing of value to any political party, organization, 
 committee or individual for any political purpose what- 
 soever, or for the purpose of influencing legislation of any 
 kind, or to promote or defeat the candidacy of any person 
 for nomination, appointment or election to any political 
 office. Any officer, employee, agent or attorney or other 
 representative of any corporation, acting for and in be- 
 half of such corporation, who shall violate this section 
 shall be punished upon conviction by a fine of not less 
 than one thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars, 
 
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 or by imprisonment in the State prison for a period of 
 not less than two nor more than five years, or by both 
 such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court 
 or judge before whom such conviction is had ; and the cor- 
 poration, if a domestic corporation, is dissolved, if after 
 a proper proceeding upon quo warranto, in either the Cir- 
 cuit or Supreme Court of the State to be prosecuted by 
 the Attorney-General of the State, the court shall find 
 and give judgment that this section has been violated as 
 charged, and if a foreign or non-resident corporation, its 
 right to do business in this State ceases. The violation 
 of this section by any officer, employee, agent, attorney 
 or other representative of a corporation, shall be prima 
 facie evidence that such officer, employee, agent, attorney 
 or other representative of such corporation, is acting for 
 and in behalf of such corporation. 
 
 3837. Penalty -for Aiding or Abetting. Any person or 
 persons who shall aid, abet, or advise a violation of the 
 preceding section shall be punished in like manner as the 
 principal offender. 
 
 3838. Where Violation Is To Be Prosecuted. Viola- 
 tions of the two preceding sections shall be prosecuted in 
 the county where such payment or contribution is made. 
 
 3839. Threats of Employers to Control Votes of Em- 
 ployees. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, 
 firm, joint stock company, association or corporation, or- 
 ganized, chartered or incorporated by and under the laws 
 of this State, either as owner or lessee, having persons in 
 their service as employees, to discharge any employee or 
 employees or to threaten to discharge any employee or 
 employees in their service for voting or not voting in any 
 election, State, county or municipal, for any person as 
 candidate or measure submitted to a vote of the people. 
 Any person or persons, firm, joint stock company, associa- 
 tion or corporation, organized, chartered or incorporated 
 under the laws of this State, or operated in this State vio- 
 lating any of the provisions of this section shall pay a fine 
 of not more than one thousand dollars. 
 
 3840. Acting as Officer or Agent. Any person acting 
 as an officer or agent of any firm, joint stock companies, 
 associations or corporations of any kind and character 
 
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 hereinbefore described, or any one of them who makes 
 or executes any notice, order, or threat of the kind herein- 
 before forbidden in the next preceding section, shall pay a 
 fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or be impris- 
 oned not more than six months. 
 
 3841. Illegal Voting and Unlawful Acts in Primary 
 Elections. If any person who is not entitled to vote un- 
 der the primary election laws, vote at any primary elec- 
 tion held thereunder, or vote more than once, or personate 
 another person, or in any name other than his own legal 
 name, or in any manner disturb the orderly proceedings 
 of any such election, or intimidate or in any manner at- 
 tempt to intimidate or deter from voting, or impose, or 
 attempt to impose, on any duly authorized voter, a ticket 
 or ballot other than it appears on its face to be, such per- 
 son or persons shall be fined not less than ten dollars 
 or be imprisoned ff or not more than three months. 
 
 CHAPTER 6471 (No. 51). 
 
 AN ACT Relating to the Election of United States Sena- 
 tors and to the Appointment of Such Senators When 
 Vacancies Happen in the Representation of This State 
 in the Senate of the Congress of the United States. 
 
 Whereas the following has been (proclaimed as having 
 been) duly adopted as Article XVII of the Amendments 
 to the Constitution of the United States, 
 
 "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 
 of the United States of America in Congress assembled 
 (two-thirds of each house concurring therein), That in 
 lien of the first paragraph of Section 3 of Article 1, of the 
 Constitution of the United States, and in lieu of so much 
 of paragraph two of the same section as relates to the 
 filling of vacancies, the following be proposed as an 
 amendment to the Constitution, which shall be valid to 
 all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
 ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States : 
 
 The Senate of the United States shall be composed of 
 two Senators from each State, elected by the people 
 
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 thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one 
 vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifica- 
 tions requisite for electors of the most numerous branch 
 of the State Legislature. 
 
 When vacancies happen in the representation of any 
 State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State 
 shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies; Pro- 
 vided, That the Legislature of any State may empower 
 the executive thereof to make temporary appointments 
 until the people fill the vacancies as the Legislature may 
 direct. 
 
 This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect 
 the election or term of any Senator chosen before it be- 
 comes valid as part of the Constitution. 
 
 And whereas it is the purpose of this State to conform 
 to the requirements of such fundamental law, therefore, 
 
 Be It Enacted ~by the Legislature of the State of Florida : 
 
 Section 1. The Senators from Florida in the Congress 
 of the United States shall be elected at the general elec- 
 tions in the State held next preceding the expiration of 
 the terms of office of such Senators, and such elections 
 shall conform as near as practicable to the methods and 
 means provided for the election of State officers. 
 
 Sec. 2. Should a vacancy happen in the representation 
 of this State in the Senate of the Congress of the United 
 States, the Governor shall issue writs of election to fill 
 such vacancy at the next general election; and the Gov- 
 ernor may make temporary appointments until the va- 
 cancy is filled by election. 
 
 Approved May 26, 1913. 
 
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 PRIMARY ELECTION 
 LAW. 
 
 CHAPTER 6469 (No. 49). 
 
 AN ACT to Provide For and Regulate Primary Elec- 
 tions. 
 
 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida : 
 
 Section 1. The nomination of all candidates for all 
 elective State, Congressional and County offices, for 
 United States Senator, and for the election of members 
 of the State, Congressional and County Executive Com- 
 mittees, by all political parties as defined by this Act, 
 shall be made in the manner provided in this Act, and 
 not otherwise. 
 
 The name of no person nominated by a party required 
 hereunder to make nominations of candidates shall be 
 placed upon the official ballot to be voted at any gen 
 eral election as a candidate for any office, when provision 
 is made herein for nominating candidates for such of- 
 fice, unless such person shall have been nominated for 
 such office under the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Sec. 2. A political party which, at the general elec- 
 tion for State and County officers then next preceding 
 a primary, polled more than five per cent of the entire 
 vote cast in the State is hereby declared to be a political 
 party within the meaning of this Act, within the State, 
 and shall nominate all candidates provided for in this 
 Act under the provisions hereof. 
 
 A political party which, at the general election for 
 State and County officers then next preceding a primary, 
 cast more than five per cent of the entire vote cast with- 
 in any Congressional District, is hereby declared to be a 
 political party within the meaning of this Act, within 
 such Congressional District, and shall nominate its can- 
 
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 didate for Representative in Congress within said Dis 
 trict, under the provisions hereof. 
 
 A political party which, at the general election for 
 State and County officers then next preceding a primary, 
 cast more than five per cent of the entire vote cast in 
 any county, is hereby declared to be a political party 
 within the meaning of this Act, within such County, and 
 shall nominate all elective County officers in said County 
 under the provisions hereof. 
 
 Sec. 3. In determining the total vote of a political 
 party, whenever required by this Act, the test shall be 
 the total vote cast by such political party for its candi- 
 date who received the greatest number of votes. 
 
 Sec. 4. Primary elections herein provided for shall be 
 held at the regular polling places established for the 
 purposes of holding general elections. 
 
 Sec. 5. A primary election shall be held, on the first 
 Tuesday after the first Monday in June of every year 
 in which a general election is held, for the nomination 
 of candidates by all political parties. 
 
 Sec. 6. The following committees shall constitute the 
 Executive, or Central, or Managing Committees of each 
 political party, viz.: A State Executive Committee, a 
 Congressional Executive Committee for each Congression- 
 al District, and a County Executive Committee for each 
 County ; provided, however, that nothing herein contained 
 shall prevent a political party from electing or appoint- 
 ing, in accordance with its practice, other committees. 
 
 See. 7. The State Executive Committee shall consist 
 of one member from each County in the State, who shall 
 be elected for two years at the primary held in the year 
 1914, and every two years thereafter. The members of 
 said Excutive Committee shall, within thirty days after 
 their election, meet and organize by electing from among 
 their number a chairman and such other officers as they 
 may deem necessary or expedient. The outgoing chair- 
 man of the State Executive Committee of each party 
 shall, not less than ten days before the first meeting, 
 
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 notify each newly elected member of said committee of 
 the time and place of said meeting. 
 
 The Congressional Executive Committee shall consist 
 of one member from each County in the Congressional 
 District, who shall be elected for two years at the pri- 
 mary held in the year 1914, and every two years there- 
 after. The members of said committee shall, within 
 thirty days after their election, meet and organize by 
 electing from among their number a chairman and such 
 other officers as they may deem necessary or expedient. 
 The outgoing chairman of the Congressional Executive 
 Committee of each party shall, not less than ten days 
 before the first meeting, notify each newly elected member 
 of said committee of the time and place of said meet- 
 ing. 
 
 The County Executive Committee of each political party 
 shall consist of one member from each election precinct 
 within the County, who shall be elected for two years 
 at the primary held in the year 1914, and every two 
 years thereafter. The members of said committee shall, 
 within thirty days after their election, meet at the County 
 seat and organize by electing from among their num- 
 ber a chairman and such other officers as they may deem 
 necessary or expedient. 
 
 Each committee and its officers shall have the powers 
 usually exercised by such committees and by the officers 
 thereof, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. 
 Each of the several executive committees herein provided 
 for shall have the power to appoint from its own mem- 
 bership proper and necessary sub-committees. Proxies 
 may be allowed by executive committees, but each proxy 
 shall reside in the same election precinct, in the case 
 of a County Executive Committee, or in the same County 
 in the case of a Congressional or State Executive Com- 
 mittee, as the committeeman represented by the proxy. 
 
 Sec. 8. The expenses of holding the primary elections 
 herein provided for, including the expenses of preparing 
 all ballots, blanks, and other supplies to be used at any 
 primary election, and all expenses necessarily incurred 
 in the preparation for or the conduct of such primary 
 election, shall be paid out of the treasury of the County 
 or the State, as the case may be, in the same manner, 
 
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 with like effect, and by the same officers as in the case 
 of general elections. 
 
 Sec. 9. That the County registration books for each elec- 
 tion district shall be open on each week day from 9A.M. 
 to 12 M. and from 2 P. M. to 5 P. M., and one night each 
 week until 10 P. M., at some convenient place in each 
 election district in each County of this State from the 
 first Monday of January, 1914, to the first Monday of 
 March, 1914, biennially thereafter from the first Monday 
 in February to the first Monday of March, for the regis 
 tration of all persons who are legally qualified to register 
 for the general primary election, and it shall be the duty 
 of the Supervisor of Kegistration to appoint district reg- 
 istration officers of each election district as authorized 
 and required by the provisions of Section 179 of the Gen- 
 eral Statutes, which said district registration officers 
 shall keep the registration books open in their districts 
 respectively as herein required. Each district registra- 
 tion officer shall post notice in at least three public places 
 within his election district, stating the place and the 
 building where he will have open the registration books. 
 
 Sec. 10. It is hereby made the duty of the Supervisor 
 of Registration of each County in this State, between 
 March 15th and April 15th, 1914, and biennially between 
 corresponding dates thereafter, to keep the registration 
 books of the County open at his office every day, Sun- 
 days excepted, from 9 o'clock a. m. to 12 o'clock m.. and 
 from 2 o'clock p. m. to 5 o'clock p. m., for the registra- 
 tion of electors for the general primary election. 
 
 Except during the periods of time prescribed in this 
 and the preceding section, the registration books for 
 primary elections shall be closed. 
 
 Sec. 11. No person, unless exempt under the provi- 
 sions of law relating to general elections, shall be per- 
 mitted to vote at a primary election who shall have 
 failed to pay at least on or before the second Saturday 
 in the month preceding the day of such election his poll 
 taxes for two years next preceding the year in which 
 such primary election shall be held. Nor shall any per- 
 son be permitted to vote at any such election who shall 
 not have registered during the period the registration 
 
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 books are required to be kept open next preceding the 
 day of said election. 
 
 Sec. 12. There shall be one or more volumes, well 
 bound with leather backs and corners and cloth sides 
 for each election district, large enough to contain the 
 names of all the electors in the district for which pro- 
 vided, called the "General County Kegister" for election 
 
 District (Number to be inserted). The pages of said 
 
 register shall be alphabetically indexed on the margin. 
 There shall be one registration book bound in tag board 
 with cloth strips on the back, for each election precinct 
 in each County in the State, called "Precinct Kegister 
 
 for Precinct County" ; 
 
 and its pages shall be alphabetically indexed on the mar- 
 gin so as to facilitate registering the electors in the 
 precinct in alphabetical order 1 , according to surnames. 
 These precinct registers shall be bound in different sizes, 
 so as to suit the different precincts. The paper, size of 
 pages, ruling and printing shall be the same as used for 
 the General County Kegister. Said registration books 
 shall be ruled and printed substantially in the following 
 form : 
 
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 8 Is 
 
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 Residence 
 
 
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 The following form of oath shall be printed in the 
 column in which the word "Oath" appears: "I, having 
 been first duly sworn, say, upon oath, that the statements 
 here entered opposite my name, as to my qualifications 
 as an elector, are true." The Supervisor of Registra- 
 tion is hereby authorized and required to administer 
 this oath; and he shall also administer the oath required 
 by Section 3 of Article VI of the Constitution of Flor- 
 ida, in the manner prescribed by Section 178 of the Gen- 
 eral Statutes of Florida. 
 
 Sec. 13. The Supervisor of Registration of each County 
 shall appoint, subject to removal by him at any time, as 
 many deputy supervisors of registration as he may deem 
 necessary or advisable, whose compensation shall be paid 
 by him. Deputy supervisors of registration shall have 
 all the powers of the Supervisor of Registration, and 
 their acts shall be in all respects as effective as the acts 
 of such Supervisor himself. The District registration of- 
 ficers authorized and required by the provisions of this 
 Act, shall be compensated by the County as now pro- 
 vided by Chapter 5614, of the Laws of Florida, Acts of 
 1907. 
 
 Sec. 14. Every elector may be registered without 
 charge by personally appearing in the office of the said 
 Supervisor of Registration and, after being duly sworn, 
 stating the following facts, which the Supervisor of Reg- 
 istration shall appropriately enter in the General County 
 Register. Electors shall be numbered consecutively, one, 
 two, three, etc., in each precinct as they are registered 
 in the General County Res^ister. The Supervisor of Reg- 
 istration shall inquire of each person who applies for 
 the purpose of being registered, when necessary, and en- 
 ter the following information as to such person in the 
 General County Register in the division set off for the 
 precinct in which such person resides, to-wit: 
 
 1. His registration number. 
 
 2. The date of his registration. 
 
 3. His full name. 
 
 4. His political party affiliations. 
 
 5. Leave a blank space in which the inspectors of elec- 
 
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 tion shall enter in the precinct register the poll-book 
 number of each elector when he has voted. 
 
 6. His business or occupation. 
 
 7. His age in years. 
 
 8. His color. 
 
 9. The State or country of his nativity. 
 
 10. If naturalized, the time, place and court of natur- 
 alization or declaration as evidenced by the legal proof 
 thereof, exhibited by such person. 
 
 11. His postoffice address at the time of his register- 
 ing, and, in cities and towns having streets, by specify- 
 ing the name of the town, or city, the street or other lo- 
 cation of or dwelling place of such person, with the num- 
 ber of such dwelling, if the same has a number; if not, 
 then with such description of the place as can be read- 
 ily ascertained and identified. 
 
 12. The fact whether or not he is able to write his 
 name and mark his ballot, and, if he cannot do both, 
 then the nature of such disability must be entered. 
 
 13. Such person shall then next following the afore- 
 administered oath, sign his name in the presence of the 
 Supervisor of Kegistration, in the General Register upon 
 the same line where the preceding information is writ- 
 ten, and the said Supervisor shall then sign his own 
 name upon the said line, and add any remarks required 
 by this chapter or appropriate thereto, for the informa- 
 tion of the inspectors of election. If such person de- 
 clares that he is unable to mark his ballot or sign his 
 name, he shall state why, and the Supervisor of Regis- 
 tration shall enter upon the register the reasons. If the 
 inability of such person to sign is apparent, owing to 
 some physical infirmity, such as blindness or loss of limb, 
 incapacitating him from writing, he shall so state the 
 fact, but if the disability is because of the illiteracy of 
 such person, the Supervisor of Registration shall, in ad- 
 dition to entering that fact, enter as full a description 
 of such person as possible, giving his height, approxi- 
 mate weight, color, complexion and color of eyes. 
 
 The district registration officers authorized and re- 
 quired by the provisions of this Act, shall be compensated 
 by the County as now provided by Chapter 5614, of the 
 Laws of Florida, Acts of 1907. 
 
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 Sec. 15. The Supervisor of Registration shall then 
 enter in the separate precinct register of the particular 
 precinct in which the elector resides everything entered 
 by him in the General Register. He shall arrange the 
 names alphabetically, according to surname, in the 
 separate precinct register, but the same number given 
 the elector in the General Register shall be given him in 
 the separate precinct register. The said Supervisor, or 
 his deputy, shall then require the elector to sign his 
 name, and, as in the General Register, he shall attest 
 the registration. The separate election precinct register 
 shall contain all the information concerning the elector 
 contained in the General County Register, including the 
 actual signature of the elector, if able to sign, and signa- 
 ture of said Supervisor or his deputy attesting such 
 registration. 
 
 Sec. 16. The State Executive Committee of each politi- 
 cal party may by resolution declare the terms and condi- 
 tions on which legal electors, shall be declared and taken 
 as proper members of such party, and therefore entitled 
 to vote in the primary election herein required to be 
 held, as members of that party. It shall be the duty 
 of the Supervisors of Registration of the various Counties 
 in the registration of electors to comply with the terms 
 of any such resolution upon the filing with them of copies 
 thereof duly certified by the Chairman and Secretary of 
 any such executive committee, at any time before the 
 opening of the registration books as herein required. 
 
 Sec. 17. It shall be the duty of the Supervisor of 
 Registration of each County, immediately upon the clos- 
 ing of the registration books as herein provided, and not 
 later than the thirtieth day before the primary election, 
 to furnish the Secretary of State, by telegraph if neces- 
 sary, a statement eo^tnining the total number of regis- 
 tered electors of each political party according to his 
 registration books. 
 
 Sec. 18. The said registers shall be public records. 
 Every citizen shall be allowed to examine the General 
 County Register and each of the precinct registers, while 
 they are in the custody of the Supervisor of Registration, 
 but shall not be allowed to make copies or extracts there- 
 
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 from. The Supervisor of Registration shall furnish copies 
 of the names, occupations and residences of any electors 
 upon payment to him of reasonable compensation there- 
 for, not exceeding the customary fees for copying papers 
 in the office of the Clerk of the" Circuit Court, but shall 
 not furnish in writing any other information contained 
 in said registration books. 
 
 Sec. 19. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State 
 to cause to be prepared a sufficient number of registration 
 books, and all other books and blanks required by this 
 Act. 
 
 Sec. 20. The executive committees of each political 
 party affected by the provisions of this Act are hereby 
 authorized for the purpose of meeting their legitimate 
 expenses and maintaining their party organizations, to 
 levy assessments upon such candidates of their respective 
 parties as are required by Section 24 to pay filing fees; 
 but no executive committee shall levy assessments upon 
 any candidate exceeding two (2) per cent of the annual 
 salary or compensation of the office sought by him; Pro- 
 vided, County Executive Committees shall have exclusive 
 power to levy assessments upon candidates to be voted 
 for only in a single county, and that Congressional Execu- 
 tive Committees shall have exclusive power to levy assess- 
 ments upon candidates for Representatives in Congress, 
 and that the State Executive Committee shall have exclu- 
 sive power to levy all other assessments hereby author- 
 ized ; Provided further, That no assessment shall be made 
 by any executive committee in the event of a special pri- 
 mary election. Upon payment by a candidate of such 
 committee assessment, he shall be entitled to receive a 
 receipt for such payment from the chairman thereof. 
 
 Sec. 21. It shall be the duty of each executive com- 
 mittee, not later than March 15th of each year in which 
 a general primary election is to be held, to adopt a resolu- 
 tion setting forth what assessments, if any, it will require 
 of candidates, and cause a certified copy thereof to be 
 delivered as provided in this section within five days there- 
 after. Said certified copy shall be delivered to the Secre- 
 tary of State, if adopted by a State or Congressional Ex- 
 ecutive Committee; and if adopted by a County Execu- 
 
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 tive Committee, to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said 
 County, who shall receive the same in his capacity of 
 clerk of the Board of County Commissioners thereof. Said 
 certified copies shall be preserved by the Secretary of 
 State, and by the various Boards of County Commission- 
 ers. 
 
 Sec. 22. Every candidate for nomination to any office 
 herein provided for shall be required to take and sign and 
 subscribe to an oath or affirmation in writing, in which 
 he shall state the particular party of which he is a mem- 
 ber; that he did not vote for any nominee of any other 
 party, National, State or County, at the next preceding 
 general election; the title of the office for which he is a 
 candidate; that he is a qualified voter of the State, giving 
 the name of the county of his legal residence ; that he has 
 paid his poll taxes legally due ; that he is qualified under 
 the constitution and laws of Florida to hold the office 
 for which he desires to be nominated; that he has paid 
 the assessment levied against him as a candidate for 
 said office by the appropriate executive committee of the 
 political party of which he is a member; that he has not 
 violated any of the laws of the State relating to elections 
 or the registration of voters. 
 
 Said sworn statement shall be substantially in the fol- 
 lowing form: 
 
 STATE OF FLORIDA, 
 
 COUNTY OF 
 
 Before me, an officer authorized to administer oaths, 
 
 personally appeared , to me well 
 
 known, who, being sworn, says he is a member of the 
 
 party ; that he did not vote for any 
 
 nominee of any other party, National, State or County, 
 at the last general election; that he is a candidate for 
 
 nomination for the office of in the 
 
 general primary election in the year 19 . . . ; that he is a 
 
 qualified voter of County, Florida ; that 
 
 he has paid his poll taxes legally due; that he has paid 
 the assessment levied against him as a candidate for said 
 
 office by the Executive Committee of the 
 
 party ; that he is qualified under the 
 
 constitution and laws of Florida to hold the office for 
 which he desires to be nominated; and that he has not 
 
violated any of the laws of the State, relating to elections 
 or the registration of voters. 
 
 (Signature of candidate.) 
 
 Sworn to and subscribed before me this 
 
 day of , 19 . . , at 
 
 County, Florida. 
 
 Signature and title of officer administering oath. 
 
 Sec. 23. The executive committees herein provided for 
 shall furnish without charge a printed form of the sworn 
 statement prescribed in the preceding section to any pros- 
 pective candidate upon application therefor. 
 
 Sec. 24. Each candidate for nomination for any office 
 herein provided for shall be required to pay a filing fee 
 at the time of filing the sworn statement provided for 
 in Section 22. The amount of said filing fee shall be 
 three per cent of the annual salary or compensation of 
 the office sought by the candidate; Provided, That no 
 filing fee shall be required of any candidate for any of- 
 fice to the holder of which no salary or compensation is 
 required to be paid. 
 
 Sec. 25. Each candidate for nomination for an office 
 to be voted for by the electors of more than one County 
 shall file his sworn statement and receipt for commit- 
 tee assessment, if any has been levied, and pay his filing 
 fee as herein required to the Secretary of State not less 
 than thirty days previous to the day of the primary elec- 
 tion. 
 
 Sec. 26. Each candidate for nomination for an office 
 to be voted for wholly within a single County shall file 
 his sworn statement and receipt for committee assess- 
 ment, if any has been levied, with, and pay his filing fee 
 as herein required to, the Clerk of the Circuit Court of 
 said County, who shall receive the same in his capacity 
 as clerk of the Board of County Commissioners of said 
 County, not less than twenty days previous to the day 
 of the primary election. 
 
 Sec. 27. Each person who shall have filed his sworn 
 statement and paid his filing fee and committee assess- 
 
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 merit, if any, as herein required, shall be entitled to have 
 his name printed on the official primary election ballot ;. 
 Provided, That whenever the number of candidates of any 
 political party for any office or position shall not exceed 
 the number required to be nominated or elected to said 
 office or position, the names of such candidates shall not 
 be printed on the official primary election ballot, but such 
 candidates are hereby declared to be nominated for such 
 office, or elected to such position. 
 
 Sec. 28. The State Executive Committee of any po- 
 litical party may, by resolution, declare for the nomina- 
 tion of candidates for other than elective offices, and also 
 for the selection of National Committeemen, delegates to 
 National Political Conventions, and for President and 
 Vice-President of the United States. Upon the adop- 
 tion by such committee of a resolution for the nomina- 
 tion or selection of any such additional candidates or 
 delegates, and upon service of a certified copy thereof 
 upon the Secretary of State, within the time required for 
 filing sworn statements by candidates, the names of can- 
 didates for such offices and positions shall appear upon 
 the official primary election ballot. The form of ballot 
 shall correspond in all respects to the form herein pre- 
 scribed. 
 
 Sec. 29. Any candidate may file with the Secretary 
 of State for publication as herein provided, not later 
 than the thirty-third day before the primary election, 
 with his portrait cut if he wishes, a printed or typewrit- 
 ten statement or statements, on the conditions hereinafter 
 set forth, concerning his own candidacy, or in reply to 
 any statements served upon him, as provided in this sec- 
 tion. Any such candidate may, not later than the thirty- 
 ninth day before said primary election, file with the Sec- 
 retary of State his printed or typewritten statement over 
 his signature concerning any other candidate for the 
 same office; but every such statement shall be accompan- 
 ied by affidavit or sheriff's return that personal service 
 has been made upon such candidate of a true copy of 
 such statement. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed 
 to make any such statement or the author thereof free 
 or exempt from any civil or criminal action or penalty 
 because of any false, slanderous or libelous statements 
 
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 offered for printing or contained in such pamphlet. The 
 person or persons procuring, making, composing or offer- 
 ing such statements for filing shall be deemed the au- 
 thors and publishers thereof. 
 
 Sec. 30. Candidates for nomination shall pay for one 
 page of space in the publication herein provided for, as 
 follows : 
 For the office of United States Senator, and for all offices 
 
 to be voted upon in each of the counties in the 
 
 State $100.00 
 
 For the office of Kepresentative in Congress 50.00 
 
 For offices to be voted for in only one county. . . . 10.00 
 For offices to be voted for in more than one county, 
 
 but not exceeding five counties, per county 7.50 
 
 For offices to be voted upon in more than five but 
 
 less than all counties, per county 5.00 
 
 Any candidate may have additional space at the rate of 
 f 100.00 per page, but no payment shall be received for 
 less than a full page; Provided, That not more than three 
 additional pages shall be allowed to any one candidate. 
 
 All payments required by this section shall be made 
 to the Secretary of State when the statement is offered 
 to him for filing, to be by him paid into the General Reve- 
 nue Fund of the State Treasury. 
 
 Sec. 31. The pages of the pamphlets required by this 
 Act shall be six by nine inches in size, and the printed 
 matter therein shall be set in eight-point roman-faced 
 type, single leaded and twenty-five ems pica in width, 
 \rith proper heads. 
 
 Sec. 32. Not later than the thirtieth day before the 
 primary election, the Secretary of State shall cause all 
 such statements, and portrait cuts properly compiled, 
 edited, prepared and indexed for printing, to be printed 
 and bound in pamphlet form, the pictures of the candi- 
 dates appear as a part of their several statements where 
 such portrait cuts are offered. All of the statements filed 
 by candidates for nomination to each office shall be print- 
 ed in the order in which the names of candidates are 
 grouped under the titles of the offices on the official ballot 
 at the primary election. In preparing such pamphlets for 
 printing, the Secretary of State shall compile the copy in 
 
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 such manner as to make it most convenient to print and 
 bind under one cover, and shall have printed, separately 
 for each political party, statements only of candidates to 
 be voted for by members of that party for nomination; 
 but no picture, statement or argument for or against any 
 candidate for nomination shall be included in the copy 
 of said pamphlet going to any county where such candi- 
 date is not to be voted for. Delivery of such pamphlets 
 shall be begun under the supervision of the Secretary of 
 State as quickly as possible and not later than the twenty- 
 fifth day before the primary election, and completed not 
 later than the twentieth day before such primary election. 
 Pamphlets shall be sent for delivery so far as practicable 
 for the counties in the order of their distance from the 
 State Capital. 
 
 Sec. 33. The Secretary of State shall forward, by mail 
 or express, within the time required in the preceding 
 Section, to the Supervisors of Registration of the various 
 Counties sufficient pamphlets and not less in number 
 than the number of registered electors according to the 
 information furnished him by each Supervisor of Regis- 
 tration, as required by Section 17 hereof, to supply each 
 registered elector with a copy of such pamphlet of his 
 political party. 
 
 Sec. 34. Immediately upon receipt of the pamphlet 
 herein provided for, each Supervisor of Registration shall 
 cause a copy thereof to be mailed to each registered 
 elector within his County, taking care to mail to each 
 such elector only the pamphlet of the political party 
 of which such elector is registered as a member in the 
 registration books. 
 
 Sec. 35. In order to facilitate the mailing of the 
 pamphlets herein provided for, it shall be the duty of 
 the Secretary of State to furnish, not later than April 
 15th of each year in which a primary election is to be 
 held, to the Supervisors of Registration of the various 
 Counties, as many wrappers or envelopes, postage paid, 
 as there were registered voters therein at the next pre- 
 ceding general election. It shall also be the duty of 
 the Secretary of State, immediately upon receiving from 
 the Supervisors of Registration of the various Counties 
 
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 information of the number of qualified electors as pro- 
 vided in Section 17 hereof, to forward to such Super- 
 visors whatever additional wrappers or envelopes, post- 
 age paid, may be necessary to comply with the provi- 
 sions hereof requiring pamphlets to be mailed to each 
 registered elector. 
 
 Sec. 36. It shall be the duty of the Supervisor of 
 Registration of each County to cause all wrappers and 
 envelopes for the mailing of pamphlets to be addressed 
 and ready for mailing by the time the pamphlets are 
 required to be delivered to him. 
 
 Sec. 37. The Secretary of State may employ such 
 clerical or other help as may be necessary properly to dis- 
 charge the duties imposed upon him by the provisions 
 of this Act, including the preparation, publication and 
 delivery of the pamphlets herein provided for, and the 
 same shall be paid for as provided in Section 8 of this 
 Act. 
 
 Sec. 38. The names of all candidates for the same 
 office shall be printed together in alphabetical order ac- 
 cording to surnames. But the order in which the titles 
 to the several offices to be filled shall be arranged upon 
 the ballot shall be left to the discretion of the officer 
 in charge of the printing of the said ballot. 
 
 Sec. 39. Separate official ballots for each political 
 party shall be printed and furnished for use at each 
 election precinct, and shall be of a different color for 
 each of the political parties participating in the primary 
 election. All ballots for the same political party shall 
 be alike, printed in plain type, and upon paper so thick 
 
 that the printing cannot be distinguished from the back. 
 
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 Across the top of the ballot shall be printed the words 
 "Official Primary Election Ballot." Beneath this head- 
 ing shall be printed the year in which said election is 
 held and the words "Democratic Party" or "Republican 
 Party" or other properly party designation. Above the 
 caption of each ballot there shall be two stubs, with a 
 perforated line between them, and with a perforated 
 line between the lower stub and the top of the ballot. 
 
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 On each of said stubs shall be printed the words "Official 
 
 Ballot Number ," with a sufficient space beneath 
 
 such words for the writing of one line. 
 
 Each group of candidates to be voted on shall be pre- 
 ceded by the designation of the office for which the candi- 
 dates seek nomination, and in the proper place the words 
 "Vote for one" or "Vote for two" (or more, according 
 to the number to be elected to such office at the ensuing 
 election). And there shall also be printed the words 
 "First Choice" and "Second Choice," perpendicularly at 
 the head of appropriate rulings or lines at the right of 
 the names of the candidates wherever either a majority 
 vote or a tie vote would not otherwise necessarily oc- 
 cur. 
 
 Sec. 40. The names of candidates for each office shall 
 be printed in alphabetical order according to surnames, 
 and, except as to the order in which the several offices 
 to be filled are stated, official ballots for primary elec- 
 tions shall be printed in substantially the following form : 
 
 OFFICIAL BALLOT No 
 
 OFFICIAL BALLOT No 
 
 OFFICIAL PRIMARY ELECTION BALLOT. 
 
 1914 
 
 DEMOCRATIC PARTY 
 Precinct Number 1. ALACHUA COUNTY. 
 
 Instructions : To vote for any candidate, make a cross 
 (X) in the square in the appropriate column, according 
 to your choice, at the right of his name. Vote your 
 first choice in the first column; vote your second choice 
 in the second column. 
 
 If there is no second column at the right of a name, 
 vote your first choice only. Do not vote more than one 
 choice for the same candidate. 
 
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 For Governor. 
 Vote for One: 
 
 S 
 
 1 
 
 o 
 
 In 
 
 
 
 Second Choice 
 
 WILLIAM JONES 
 
 
 
 CHAELES SMITH 
 
 
 
 JOHN WILLIAMS 
 
 
 
 Railroad Commissioner. 
 Vote for Two 
 
 JAMES DAVIS 
 
 EOBEET JOHNSON 
 
 THOMAS MITCHELL 
 
 EICHAED WHITE 
 
 For United States Senator. 
 
 Vote for One: 
 
 FEANK ANDEESON 
 
 JOSEPH BEOWN 
 
 For Sheriff. 
 
 Vote for One: 
 
 BENJAMIN THOMPSON I I | 
 
 DAVID WALKEE | | | 
 
 SAMUEL YOUNG I | | 
 
 Sec. 41. Any qualified elector who is also a member 
 of a political party, as herein defined, participating in a 
 primary election, shall be entitled to vote at such primary 
 election and shall receive the official primary election bal- 
 lot of the political party designated in his registration, 
 and no other; provided, that an elector who shall have 
 voted, at the next preceding general election, for any nom- 
 inee of any political party for any office for which a nomi- 
 nation is required to be made by the provisions of this 
 Act, shall not be entitled to receive or vote the ballot of 
 a different political party at such primary election. 
 
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 Sec. 42. Before any ballot is delivered to any voter, 
 one of the inspectors shall write the consecutive number 
 of the ballot in the blank space on each of the stubs after 
 the word "Number." He shall also write upon the upper 
 stub the name of the voter to whom the ballot is delivered, 
 and shall write his own initials upon the lower stub. The 
 inspector shall then detach and retain the upper stub 
 with the name of the owner written thereon; thereupon 
 the voter shall retire to the booth and mark his ballot 
 preparatory to depositing it in the ballot-box. After 
 the voter has marked his ballot, he shall fold it so as to 
 leave the stub visible and in such position that it may 
 be detached without unfolding. When the prepared bal- 
 lot is returned, the inspector shall compare it with the 
 stub he has retained, and if he finds it to be the same 
 ballot delivered to the voter he shall detach and retain 
 the remaining stub, and the voter shall then deposit his 
 folded ballot in the ballot-box. But if the marked bal- 
 lot returned by the voter proves to be a different one 
 from the one delivered to him, the inspector shall then 
 and there search the person of the voter preferring such 
 ballot, and, if the original ballot is found on or about 
 his person, shall take same into their possession and dis- 
 charge said voter from the polling place without permit- 
 ting him to vote. Inspectors of primary elections are 
 hereby clothed with such police powers as may be neces- 
 sary to carry out the provisions of this section. Any 
 voter thus attempting to vote a substituted ballot shall 
 be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction there- 
 of, shall be imprisoned in the State prison for not more 
 than two years. 
 
 Sec. 43. Any person offering to vote at a primary 
 election may be challenged by any elector. It shall not 
 be necessary for the elector entering the challenge to 
 state any reason or ground therefor. Upon a challenge 
 being entered against the right of any person to vote, it 
 shall be the duty of the inspectors of the election imme- 
 diately to deliver to said challenged person the follow- 
 ing form of affidavit: 
 
 STATE OF FLORIDA 
 
 COUNTY OF 
 
 I do solemnly swear that my name is ; 
 
 that I am a member of the P ar ty, and at 
 
C4 
 
 the last general election I did not vote for any nominee 
 
 of any other party ; that my occupation is that of 
 
 ; that I am years old ; that T was 
 
 born in the State of or the country of 
 
 ; that my residence is on 
 
 street, in the town or city of , in this elec- 
 tion precinct of county ; that I per- 
 sonally made application for registration and signed my 
 name, and that I am a qualified elector. 
 
 Sworn to and subscribed before me this day of 
 
 , 19... 
 
 Inspector of Elections. 
 
 Authority is hereby conferred upon any of the inspec- 
 tors or clerks of election to administer the foregoing oath. 
 If the person applying to vote refuses to make and sign 
 the affidavit herein prescribed, the inspectors shall refuse 
 to allow him to vote. If, however, the challenged person 
 fills in the blanks in the said affidavit, it shall then be the 
 duty of the inspectors and clerk of election carefully to 
 compare the information which he has written in the 
 affidavit with the information entered in the registration 
 book opposite the name of the person who the challenged 
 person represents himself to be, and, upon such compari- 
 son, and upon comparison of the signatures in the regis- 
 tration book and on the affidavit, and upon the taking of 
 any other evidence which may then be offered, it shall 
 be the duty of the inspectors of election to decide by 
 majority vote whether the challenged person shall be per- 
 mitted to vote; Provided, That if the challenged person 
 be unable to write or sign his name, the inspectors shall 
 then ascertain by examination of the precinct register 
 whether the person registered under the name of such 
 person is represented thereby to have signed his name. 
 If he is so represented, such person shall be denied per- 
 mission to vote without further examination ; but if not, 
 then one of the inspectors shall place such person under 
 oath and orally examine him upon the subject matters 
 contained in the affidavit prescribed by this section. If 
 there is any doubt in the mind of any inspector as to the 
 identity of such person, the inspectors shall also com- 
 pare the appearance of such person with the description 
 
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 entered upon the precinct register, opposite the name of 
 the elector who such person represents himself to be. 
 Said inspector shall then proceed as in other cases to de- 
 termine whether the challenged person shall be permitted 
 t'> vote. 
 
 Sec. 44. At the close of the primary election at each 
 polling place, the inspectors and clerk shall proceed in 
 the manner provided by law in the case of general elec- 
 tions, and, in addition thereto, it shall be the duly of 
 the inspectors and clerk of election in each Election Dis- 
 trict carefully to enter the number of the first and second 
 choice votes for each candidate and make return thereof, 
 as provided by law in the case of returns in general elec- 
 tions. First and second choice votes shall not be cast by 
 a voter for the same candidate, and in the event this shall 
 be done, only the first choice votes shall be counted 
 
 Sec. 45. The counting of the ballots completed, the 
 results shall be publicly proclaimed. Duplicate certifi- 
 cates of the results of such election shall be drawn up by 
 said inspectors and clerk at each and every election pre- 
 cinct, which shall contain all matters and things provided 
 for in the law regulating general elections, and, in addi- 
 tion thereto, in all cases where first and second choice 
 ballots are voted, the number of first choice votes received 
 by each candidate and for which particular candidate 
 said electors cast their second choice votes and the num- 
 ber thereof. Said certificates in this respect shall be 
 substantially in the following form : 
 
 .electors voted first choice votes for A 
 
 and second choice votes for B 
 
 and second choice votes for C 
 
 and second choice votes for D 
 
 electors voted first choice votes for B 
 
 and second choice votes for A 
 
 and second choice votes for C 
 
 and second choice votes for D 
 
 electors voted first choice votes for C 
 
 and second choice votes for A 
 
 and second choice votes for B 
 
 and . . . . second choice votes for D 
 
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 electors voted first choice votes for D 
 
 and second choice votes for A 
 
 and second choice votes for 13 
 
 and second choice votes for C 
 
 Sec. 46. On the sixth day after any primary election, 
 or sooner, if the returns shall have been received, it shall 
 be the duty of the County Judge and the Supervisor of 
 Registration to meet at the office of the said Supervisor 
 of Registration and take to their assistance the chair- 
 man or other member of the Board of County Commis- 
 sioners; and in case of absence, sickness, refusal to act, 
 or other disability of the County Judge or Supervisor of 
 Registration, anothef member of the Board of County 
 Commissioners who shall be designated by the chairman 
 of said board, shall act in his place, who shall constitute 
 and be the County Canvassing Board of primary elec- 
 tions; and they shall proceed publicly to canvass the vote 
 given for the several nominations and the person as 
 shown by the returns on file in the offices of such County 
 Judge and Supervisor of Registration. Such canvass 
 shall be made solely, exclusively and entirely from the 
 returns and certificates of the inspectors in each Election 
 District, as signed and filed by them with the County 
 Judge and Supervisor of Registration, respectively, and 
 in no case shall the Board of County Canvassers change 
 or vary in any manner the number of votes cast for the 
 candidates respectively, in any polling place in the Coun- 
 ty, as shown by the returns of the inspectors of such 
 polling place. 
 
 Sec. 47. The County Canvassing; Board of primary 
 elections shall compile the results of the primary election, 
 as shown by the returns of the inspectors, and shall then 
 make and sign duplicate certificates containing, in words 
 written at full length and in figures, the whole number 
 of votes given for each nomination; the names of the per- 
 sons for whom such votes were given for such nomina- 
 tion, and the number of votes given for each person for 
 such nomination ; and in cases of first and second choice 
 ballots, the number of first choice votes received by each 
 candidate in the County and for which particular candi- 
 dates the said electors cast their second choice votes, and 
 the number thereof, in the same manner for the Counties 
 
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 as is required of the inspectors and clerks of each elec- 
 tion precinct. Such certificates shall be recorded by the 
 Supervisor of Registration in a book to be kept by him 
 for that purpose, which book shall be furnished by the 
 Board of County Commissioners, and shall be labeled 
 "Record of Primary Election Returns," and one of such 
 duplicates shall immediately be transmitted, by mail or 
 by express, to the Secretary of State, and the other to 
 the Governor of the State. The Supervisor of Registra- 
 tion shall transmit by mail to the Secretary of State, im- 
 mediately after the County Canvassing Board shall have 
 canvassed the returns for State and County officers, a list 
 giving the names of all County officers nominated, the 
 office for which each was nominated, with the post- 
 office address of such nominees, in their respective Coun- 
 ties. 
 
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 Sec. 48. On the twentieth day after the holding of 
 any primary election, or sooner, if the returns shall have 
 been received from the several Counties wherein a pri- 
 mary election shall have been held, the Secretary of 
 State, the Comptroller and the Attorney General, or 
 any two of them, together with any other administrative 
 officer of the executive department who may be desig- 
 nated by them, shall meet at the office of the Secretary 
 of State, pursuant to notice to be given by the Secre- 
 tary of State, who shall constitute and be the State 
 Canvassing Board of Primary Elections, and they shall 
 proceed publicly to canvass the returns of said Primary 
 Election and determine and declare who shall have been 
 nominated as shown by such returns. 
 
 Sec. 49. In all cases where second choice voting is 
 not provided for by this Act, the candidate for an office 
 receiving a majority of votes shall be declared nominated 
 for such office. 
 
 Sec. 50. If any candidate for an office shall receive 
 a majority of first choice votes he shall be declared 
 nominated for such office. If no candidate shall receive 
 such a majority of first choice votes, then the nomina- 
 tion for such office shall be determined by excluding 
 from further consideration the candidacy of all except 
 the two candidates who shall have received the greatest 
 
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 and next greatest number of first choice votes, or the 
 greatest and equal number of first choice votes, and by 
 adding to such first choice votes of each of said two 
 candidates the second choice votes cast for him by those 
 voters whose first choice votes shall have been cast for 
 any of the candidates excluded as herein provided. 
 
 The candidate then having to his credit the greater 
 number of votes thus ascertained shall be declared nomi- 
 nated for such office. But if the two remaining candi- 
 dates shall then have an equal and the highest number of 
 votes for the same office, the one having the greater num- 
 ber of first choice votes to his credit shall be declared 
 nominated for such office. If, however, the number of 
 first choice votes cast for each of said two candidates 
 be equal, it shall be the duty of the State or appropriate 
 County Canvassing Board of primary elections, as soon 
 as the results of the said primary election shall have been 
 canvassed, to notify the chairman of the proper State, 
 Congressional or County Executive Committee, as the 
 case may be, to that effect; and it shall thereupon be the 
 duty of said chairman to call a meeting of said commit- 
 tee within ten days, giving notice in writing to the mem- 
 bers of said committee of the purpose thereof, and at 
 said meeting said committee shall have the power to nom- 
 inate, by majority vote, a candidate for said office, and 
 certify immediately thereafter, through its chairman and 
 secretary, the said nomination to the Secretary of State, 
 or to the appropriate Board of County Commissioners, 
 according as said candidate was voted for in more than 
 one or in only one County, who shall cause the name of 
 such nominee to be placed on the official ballot to be voted 
 at the ensuing general election. 
 
 Sec. 51. The same procedure prescribed in the pre- 
 ceding section shall be followed in the event of a tie vote 
 between any two candidates in all cases where second 
 choice voting is not provided for by this Act. 
 
 Sec. 52. In the event more than one candidate is to 
 be nominated for the same office, and there are more can- 
 didates than should properly be nominated therefor, the 
 method of calculation set forth in Section 50 shall gov- 
 ern in determining the said nominations. 
 
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 Sec. 53. The Board of County Commissioners of each 
 County shall cause to be printed on the ballots to be used 
 in the respective Counties at the next general election 
 the names of all candidates who have been nominated 
 as herein provided for offices to be voted for within such 
 County at said general election. 
 
 Sec. 54. The Secretary of State, not less than thirty 
 days before the next general election, shall certify to 
 the Board of County Commissioners of each County in 
 the State, in case of an officer to be voted for by the 
 electors of the whole State, and to the Board of County 
 Commissioners of the Counties composing a Congres- 
 sional, Senatorial or other district, in case of any officer 
 to be voted for by the electors of any such district con- 
 taining more than one County, upon suitable blanks 
 to be prepared by him for that purpose, the fact of such 
 nomination and the names of the nominee or nominees 
 and the name of the office to which he or they may be 
 nominated, and the name of such persons shall be print 
 ed by the Board of County Commissioners upon the 
 ballot at the proper place in all respects as herein pro- 
 vided for nominations filed in the office of the Board of 
 County Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 55. All contests over the results of a primary 
 election shall be determined according to the law appli- 
 cable to like contests over the results of a general elec- 
 tion. 
 
 Sec. 56. Whoever casts more than one ballot at the 
 same primary election shall be punished by imprison- 
 ment in the State Prison not exceeding three years. 
 
 Sec. 57. No registered voter shall call himself or pass 
 by any other name than the name by which he is regis- 
 tered. Nothing in this Section shall prevent the altera- 
 tion of names by the Circuit Court, as provided by law, 
 and when the name of anyone is changed by the order 
 of said court, he shall notify the Supervisor of Regis- 
 tration of the fact that his name has been changed. Any- 
 one violating this Section shall be punished by imprison- 
 ment in the State Prison not exceeding five years. 
 
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 Sec. 58. Any elector who shall take or remove, or 
 attempt to take or remove, any ballot from the polling 
 place before the closing of the polls, or any person who 
 shall interfere with any elector when inside of the poll- 
 ing place or when marking his ballot, or any elector 
 who aids or attempts to aid any elector by means of 
 any mechanical device whatever in marking his ballot, 
 shall be punished by imprisonment in the State prison 
 not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding one 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 Sec. 59. Whoever shall wilfully and corruptly make 
 any false oath, affidavit or sworn statement herein pro- 
 vided for shall suffer the pains and penalties of perjury. 
 
 Sec. 60. Any candidate who shall wilfully violate any 
 provision of this Act shall, in addition to any punishment 
 prescribed by law, forfeit any nomination he may have 
 received at the primary election in reference to which 
 such crime or offense is committed. 
 
 Sec. 61. Any person offending against any provision 
 of this Act is a competent witness against any other per- 
 son so offending, and may be compelled to attend and 
 testify upon any trial, hearing, proceeding or lawful in- 
 vestigation or judicial proceeding, in the same manner as 
 any other person. But the testimony so given shall not be 
 used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil or criminal, 
 against the person so testifying. A person so testifying 
 shall not thereafter be liable to indictment or presentment 
 by information, nor to prosecution or punishment for the 
 offense with reference to which his testimony was given, 
 and may plead or prove the giving of testimony accord- 
 ingly in bar of such indictment, information or prosecu- 
 tion. 
 
 Sec. 62. The words and phrases in this Act shall, 
 unless such construction be inconsistent with the context, 
 be construed as follows : 
 
 1. The word "voter" shall have the same meaning as 
 the word "elector." 
 
 2. The words "precinct" and "election precinct" shall 
 have the same meaning as the words "district" or "elec- 
 tion district" as now defined by law. 
 
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 3. The words "primary" and "primary election," the 
 primary nominating election provided by this Act. 
 
 4. The words "election" and "general election/' the 
 general State and County election held in November. 
 
 Sec. 63. The primary elections required by this Act, 
 except as herein otherwise provided, shall be held in ac- 
 cordance with the provisions of Article I of Title IV, 
 First Division, of the General Statutes of Florida. 
 
 Sec. 64. Time for opening and closing the polls in 
 each county, shall be left to County officials, who are 
 required by law to perform this duty, and such polls must 
 be opened not later than 8:00 A. M., and closed not later 
 than 7:00 P. M. 
 
 Sec. 65. State, Congressional and County committees 
 shall publish itemized statement receipts of money from 
 candidates, stating amounts each, also publish itemized 
 statement of expenditures. 
 
 Approved June 3, 1913. 
 
 CHAPTEK 6470 (No. 50). 
 
 AN ACT, Relating to Primary Elections, and to Limit 
 Regulate, Control and Restrict Campaign and Other 
 Expenditures in Connection With Primary Elections, 
 and to Require Candidates for Primary Nominations 
 to Make Certain Statements of Campaign Expendi- 
 tures; to Require Certain Duties of Certain Officers, 
 Boards and Committees in Connection With the Said 
 Regulation and Control of Campaign Expenditures as 
 Provided in Said Act; to Define, Prevent and Punish 
 Certain Offenses and Corrupt and Illegal Practices in 
 Connection With Primary Elections ; to Require and 
 Protect the Purity of the Ballot; to Make Certain Evi- 
 dence Admissible in the Courts, and Providing Penal- 
 ties for Violations of Its Provisions. 
 
 Be It Enacted 'by the Legislature of the State of Florida : 
 
 Section 1. That no person in the furtherance of his 
 candidacy for nomination for public office or public posi- 
 
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 tion, in a primary election, shall himself, or by or through 
 any other person or persons, or on behalf of any other 
 person, directly or indirectly, give, pay, or expend any 
 money or give or pay anything of value, or promise to 
 give, pay or expend any money or to pay or give any- 
 thing of value or authorize any expenditure or become 
 pecuniarily liable, except and only for the following pur- 
 poses, to-wit: 
 
 For his traveling expenses while campaigning, fee for 
 qualifying, stenographic work, clerks at his campaign 
 headquarters to address, prepare and mail campaign 
 literature, telegrams, telephone, postage, freight, ex- 
 press, stationery, list of voters, office rent, newspaper ad- 
 vertising, advertising in campaign book, printing and 
 the renting of halls in which to address the voters. 
 
 The expenditure of any money or giving, paying or 
 promising to give or pay tczj money or anything of value 
 directly or indirectly by any candidate in furtherance 
 of his candidacy for nomination in a primarr election, 
 except in the manner and for the purposes authorized by 
 the provisions of this section is hereby expressly pro- 
 hibited. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the total expenditures allowed and au- 
 thorized for the purposes specified in Section One (1) of 
 this Act, shall not be in excess of the following amounts, 
 for each candidate for the following offices, to-wit: 
 
 For United States Senator $4,000.00 
 
 For Governor $4,000.00 
 
 For all other State Administrative Offices $2,500.00 
 
 For Congressman $2,000.00 
 
 For R. R. Commissioner, Adjutant General, State 
 Chemist, State Auditor, Assistant State An 
 
 ditor, and Justices of the Supreme Court $2,000.00 
 
 For State Attorney ft 600.00 
 
 For Circuit Judge $ 600.00 
 
 For State Senator $ 200.00 
 
 For Representatives in the Legislature $ 200.00 
 
 For Congressional District Delegates to the Na- 
 tional ^Convention f 300.00 
 
 For Delegate at Large to the National Conven- 
 tion, for Member of the National Executive 
 Committee and Presidential Electors $ 500.00 
 
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 For County Officers in Counties having a popu- 
 lation of 40,000 and over $ 750.00 
 
 For County Officers in Counties having a popu- 
 lation of 30,000 and less than 40,000 . . . $ 500.00 
 
 For County Officers in Counties having a popu- 
 lation of 20,000 and less than 30.000 $ 450.00 
 
 For County Officers in Counties with less than 
 
 20,000 population $ 400.00 
 
 The latest Federal or State census to determine 
 the population of a County. 
 
 For Members of the State Executive Committee, 
 and Members of the Congressional Executive 
 Committee, of any political party $ 100.00 
 
 For Members of the County Executive Committee 
 
 of any political party f 50.00 
 
 The maximum amounts fixed by this section shall in- 
 clude funds contributed to a candidate's campaign fund, 
 and shall include all expenditures by the candidate him- 
 self or his campaign manager or committee. The ex- 
 pending of any money or giving or promising to give or 
 pay any money or anything of value by any candidate 
 directly or indirectly in furtherance of his candidacy 
 for nomination in a primary election, in excess of the 
 amounts fixed and prescribed by this Section is hereby 
 prohibited and an expenditure in excess of said amounts 
 is declared to be unlawful. 
 
 Sec. 3. That any person who violates the provisions 
 of Section One (1) of this Act shall upon conviction 
 be punished by a fine of not exceeding one thousand 
 dollars or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or may 
 be punished by both such fine and imprisonment, and shall 
 from and after his conviction be disqualified and ineligible 
 to hold the office or position to which he aspires, or any 
 other State or County office or position, and his nnme 
 shall not be allowed or printed on the primary election 
 ballot or upon the official ballot to be used in the General 
 State and County Election, and no officer, committee 
 or board authorized by law to issue commissions or 
 certificates of election, or certificates of nomination, 
 shall issue any such certificate or commission to such 
 person. If at the time of conviction such person is 
 serving in the position or office to which he aspired, 
 
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 his conviction shall be cause for his removal or for his 
 impeachment. 
 
 Sec. 4. That any person who violates the provisions 
 of Section Two (2) of this Act, shall upon conviction 
 be punished by a fine of not exceeding one thousand dol- 
 lars or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or may 
 be punished by both such fine and imprisonment, and 
 shall from and after his conviction be disqualified and 
 ineligible to hold the office or position to which he aspires 
 or any other State or County office or position, and his 
 name shall not be allowed or printed on the primary 
 election ballot, or upon the official ballot to be used in 
 the General State and County Election, and no officer, 
 committee or board authorized by law to issue commis- 
 sions or certificates of election or certificates of nomina- 
 tion shall issue any such certificate or commission to 
 such person. If at the time of the conviction such per- 
 son is serving in the position or office to which he aspired, 
 his conviction shall be cause for his removal or impeach- 
 ment. 
 
 Sec. 5. That no person shall, in order to aid or pro- 
 mote his nomination in a primary election, directly or 
 indirectly, himself or by or through any other person, 
 promise to appoint another person, or promise to secure 
 or aid in securing appointment, nomination or election 
 of another person to any public or private position or 
 employment, or to any position of honor, trust or emlu- 
 ment, except that he may publicly announce or define 
 what his choice or purpose in relation to any election 
 in which he may be called to take part, if elected. Any 
 person who violates the provisions of this Section shall 
 upon conviction be punished as provided by the provi- 
 sions of Section Four (4) of this Act. 
 
 Sec. 6. That any candidate or other person who em- 
 ploys, or offers to employ, or shall give, pay, reward, make 
 a loan to, or promise to give, pay, reward or make a loan 
 to any person for the promise of his vote, his services, or 
 for loss of time, or for reimbursement for his expenses, 
 in consideration of such person working, electioneering, 
 or making public addresses, for or against any candidate 
 for nomination in a primary election, or who gives or 
 
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 receives any money or other thing of value to be used 
 for such purpose, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and 
 upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not exceed- 
 ing one thousand dollars or by imprisonment not exceed- 
 ing one year, or may be punished by both such fine and 
 imprisonment, and if a candidate is found guilty of such 
 offense he shall from and after his conviction be disquali- 
 fied and ineligible to hold the position or office to which 
 he aspires, or any other State or county office or position, 
 and his name shall not be allowed or printed on the pri- 
 mary election ballot or upon the official ballot to be used 
 in the General State and County election and no officer, 
 committee or board, authorized by law to issue commis- 
 sions or certificates of election or certificates of nomina- 
 tions, shall issue any such certificate or commission to 
 such person. If at the time of the conviction, such per- 
 son who was a candidate is serving in the position or 
 office to which he aspired, his conviction shall be cause 
 for his removal or for his impeachment. 
 
 Sec. 7. That any person who solicits, receives or ac- 
 cepts from another any pay, gift, reward, loan, money, 
 salary, contribution or thing of value as pay for services, 
 or reimbursement for loss of time or for expenses, as a 
 consideration for him promising to vote for, working, 
 electioneering or making public speeches for or against 
 any candidate seeking nomination in a primary election 
 shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not 
 exceeding one thousand dollars or by imprisonment not 
 exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprison- 
 ment. 
 
 Sec. 8. That no person, firm or corporation, in the 
 furtherance of or in opposition to the candidacy of any 
 person for nomination in a primary election shall give, 
 pay, loan, expend, contribute or promise to give, pay, 
 loan, expend or contribute any money or other thing of 
 value for any purpose whatever; provided, personal serv- 
 ices and personal traveling expenses may be contributed; 
 and, provided, that campaign contributions may be made 
 to a candidate direct, or to his campaign manager, by 
 other than a corportion, to be expended only as author- 
 ized by this Act. Any person who violates the provisions 
 of this Section shall be punished by a fine of not exceed- 
 
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 ing one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not 
 exceeding one year, or may be punished by both such fine 
 and imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 9. That all political advertisements and all cam- 
 paign literature published or circulated prior to or on the 
 day of a primary election shall be signed by the author 
 thereof, and if the same is being published and circulated 
 by a club or a committee then it shall be signed by the 
 Chairman and Secretary of such club or committee, and 
 such literature which is in circular form shall have upon 
 it the name of the printer or publisher. All political ad- 
 vertisements appearing in a newspaper shall be marked 
 "Paid Advertisement." Any person who publishes or cir- 
 culates any campaign literature or political advertise- 
 ment without the name of the author and the name of the 
 printer or publisher thereon as required by this section, 
 shall upon conviction be punished by a fine not exceeding 
 One Thousand Dollars or by imprisonment not exceed 
 ing one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 10. That it shall be unlawful for any candidate 
 or other person during the eighteen days next preceding 
 the day of a primary election to publish or circulate or 
 cause to be published or circulated any charge against or 
 attack upon any candidate unless a copy of such charge or 
 attack has been personally served upon the candidate 
 against whom made at least eighteen days prior to the 
 day of the primary, and any person publishing or circu- 
 lating such charge or attack without a copy of the Fame 
 having been personally served upon the person against 
 whom the charge or attack is made as herein required, 
 shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding one thousand 
 dollars or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or be 
 punished by both such fine and imprisonment. Any 
 answer to a charge or attack that contains only defensive 
 matter shall not be construed to be a charge or attack. 
 
 Sec. 11. No person shall directly or indirectly, give, 
 pay, loan, or promise to give, pay, or loan, any money or 
 other thing of value to the owner, editor, publisher or 
 agent of any newspaper or other periodical, as compen- 
 sation or reward, for or to induce him to advocate or op- 
 pose through the columns of his paper any candidate for 
 
nomination in a primary election, and no such owner > edi- 
 tor, publisher or agent shall solicit or accept such pay- 
 ment or reward. Any person violating the provisions of 
 this Section shall upon conviction be punished by a fine 
 of not exceeding one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned 
 not exceeding one year, or be punished by both such fine 
 and imprisonment. And a candidate who is found guilty 
 of such violation shall from and after his conviction be 
 disqualified and ineligible to hold the office or position 
 to which he aspires, or any other State or County office, 
 or position, and his name shall not be allowed or printed 
 on the primary election ballot, or upon the official bal- 
 lot to be used in the General State and County election, 
 and no officer, committee or board, authorized by law to 
 issue commissions or certificates of election or certificates 
 of nomination, shall issue any such certificates or com- 
 mission to such person. If at the time of conviction, 
 such person who was a candidate is serving in the posi- 
 tion or office to which he aspired, his conviction shall be 
 cause for removal or for his impeachment. 
 
 Sec. 12. That if any newspaper in its columns assails 
 the personal character of any candidate for nomination 
 in a primary election, or charges such candidate with 
 malfeasance or misfeasance in office, or otherwise attacks 
 his official record, or gives to another free space for such 
 purpose, such newspaper shall, upon request of such can- 
 didate, immediately publish free of cost any reply he may 
 make thereto, in as conspicuous a place and in the same 
 kind of type as the matter that calls for such reply; pro- 
 vided, such reply does not take up more space than the 
 matter replied to. A person who fails to comply with 
 the provisions of this Section, shall upon conviction be 
 punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by 
 imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both such 
 fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 13. That the word "candidate" in this Act means 
 any person who has announced to any person, or to the 
 public, that he is a candidate for a certain office. 
 
 Sec. 14. That no candidate for nomination in a pri- 
 mary election shall directly or indirectly himself, or 
 by or through another person, give, pay, expend or 
 
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 contribute any money or thing of value for the further- 
 ance of the candidacy of any other candidate. Any per- 
 son violating the provisions of this Section shall be pun- 
 ished as provided in Section 3 of this Act. 
 
 Sec. 15. That any candidate or other person who fur- 
 nishes, gives or delivers to another person any money 
 or other thing of value, to be used by another person 
 for any purpose prohibited by the provisions of this Act, 
 and any person who receives or accepts any money or 
 thing of value, to be used for any such purposes, shall 
 upon conviction for so doing be punished by a fine of not 
 exceeding one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not ex- 
 ceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 A candidate found guilty of a violation of this Section 
 shall, from and after his conviction, be disqualified and 
 ineligible to hold the office or position to which he as- 
 pires, or any other State or County office or position, and 
 his name shall not be allowed or printed on the primary 
 election ballot, or upon the official ballot to be used in 
 the General State and County election, and no officer, 
 committee or board, authorized by law to issue commis- 
 sions or certificates of election or certificates of nomina- 
 tion, shall issue any such certificate or commission to 
 such person. If at the time of conviction, such person 
 who was a candidate, is serving in the position or office 
 to which he aspired, his conviction shall be cause for 
 removal or impeachment. 
 
 Sec. 16. That it shall be the duty of the sheriffs of 
 this State to exercise strict vigilance in the detection of 
 any violations of this Act and the apprehending of any 
 violators thereof. 
 
 Sec. 17. That it shall be the duty of the Grand Jury 
 in each County, when it convenes during a campaign pre- 
 ceding a primary election, and at its first meeting there- 
 after, to make special investigation to determine whether 
 or not there have been violations of the provisions of this 
 Act, and to return indictments where sufficient ground 
 is found for the same- 
 Sec. 18. That when deemed advisable the Governor 
 may appoint special officers to see that violators of the 
 
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 provisions of this Act are apprehended and punished as 
 herein provided. 
 
 Sec. 10. That each and every candidate for nomina- 
 tion in a primary election, be and he is hereby required 
 to file in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of 
 the County in which he resides if he is a candidate for 
 State Senator, Representative in the Legislature or for 
 any County office or position, or in the office of the Sec- 
 retary of State if he is a candidate for a national or State 
 office or position, detailed itemized statements of his 
 campaign expenses as follows, to-wit: Not more than 
 thirty days nor less than twenty-five days prior to the 
 primary, also not more than twelve nor less than eight 
 days prior to the primary and within ten days after the 
 day of the primary, he shall so file statements giving in 
 itemized detail form including names, items and detail 
 amounts covering all of the expenditures made directly 
 or indirectly by him or by any other person acting for 
 him, and all obligations, debts or liabilities assumed or 
 incurred on account of his candidacy up to three days 
 prior to the day on which such statements are presented 
 to be filed as herein required. These statements shall in- 
 clude the names of all contributors to his campaign fund, 
 with amount given by each, and a list of all gifts, loans or 
 contributions made on account of his candidacy. Such 
 statements shall also set forth that the same is as full 
 and explicit as said candidate is able to make; and he 
 shall also, before some officer, qualified to administer 
 oaths, take, subscribe to and file with said statement the 
 following oath: 
 
 "I do solemnly swear that the statement herewith filed 
 embraces all money spent by me or in my behalf, with 
 my knowledge and consent through or by any other per- 
 son ; that I have neither, directly or indirectly, arranged, 
 encouraged, or connived at the spending of any money 
 other than as shown in my said statement; that I have 
 not repaid any money so spent, or claimed to have been 
 so spent, and that I will not do so, and that I have not 
 violated any of the provisions of the laws governing pri- 
 mary elections and the expenditure of funds in connec- 
 tion with a candidacy for a nomination in a primary, in 
 letter or in spirit, So help me God." 
 
 Sec. 20. That any candidate who fails to make and 
 
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 tile the statements required by Section 19 of this Act, in 
 the form and at the time specified, shall not have the right 
 to have his name placed upon the ballot to be used in the 
 primary election, and those intrusted with the prepara- 
 tion of such primary ballots shall, upon the certificate of 
 the officer with whom said statements are required (o be 
 filed, that a candidate has failed to file such statement or 
 statements, omit his name therefrom. The name of no 
 candidate failing to file such statements as required by 
 said Section shall be allowed or printed on the official bal- 
 lot used in the General State and County election, and 
 no committee, officer or board authorized to issue commis- 
 sions, certificates of election and certificates of nomina- 
 tion, shall issue any such commission or certificate to any 
 candidate who fails to comply with the provisions of the 
 said Section 19 of this Act. Any officer, and the members 
 of any Board or Committee violating the provisions of 
 this Section shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding 
 Five Hundred Dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding 
 six months. 
 
 Sec. 21: That the officers with whom the statements of 
 campaign expenditures are filed under the provisions of 
 Section 19 of this Act, shall securely keep on file the said 
 statements for at least three years from the date upon 
 which filed, and a copy of such statements duly certified 
 to by the officer with whom filed shall be admissible as 
 competent evidence in any of the courts of this State. 
 
 Sec. 22. That whoever shall wilfully and corruptly 
 make any false oath, affidavit or sworn statements herein 
 provided for shall suffer the pains and penalties of per- 
 jury. 
 
 Sec. 23. That whoever violates any provisions of this 
 Act, the punishment of which is not specifically provided 
 by law, shall on conviction thereof be punished by a fine 
 of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprison- 
 ment for not more than one year or by both such fine and 
 imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 24. That this Act shall take effect immediately 
 upon its passage and approval by the Governor. 
 
 Approved June 6, 1913. 
 
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 SAMPLES OF TALLY SHEETS AND INSTKUCTIONS 
 FOE USING SAME. 
 
 Where there is one candidate to be nominated and only 
 two running there will be no second choice* votes and 
 tally sheets will be of the following form, which for con- 
 venience will be designated as Form No. 1. 
 
 FORM NO. l.r 
 
 Name of Candidates. Votes Keceived. 
 
 A. 
 
 B. 
 
 The candidate receiving the highest number of votes will 
 be declared nominated and record made as now made in 
 general elections where there are two candidates. 
 
 Where there is one candidate to be nominated and three 
 or more running the following form, called Form No. 2, 
 will be used. In this form the votes have been tallied 
 out just as they would be tallied in actual use, and fol- 
 lowing the form will be found instructions for counting 
 the vote and for recording the same. 
 
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 There are three candidates to be voted for and only 
 one can be nominated. 
 
 It is required to so tally the vote as to show the num- 
 ber of first choice votes received by each candidate and 
 for which other candidate these voters cast their second 
 choice votes. The names of the candidates are perpendic- 
 ularly arranged. It will be noticed that the names of the 
 candidates are in alphabetical order according to sur- 
 names. They will appear in this order on the ballot and 
 the tally sheet is intended to correspond with the ballot 
 in this respect. 
 
 Tally the first choice vote of any candidate in the ap- 
 propriate space on the left of the perpendicular column 
 in which the names of the candidates appear and the 
 second choice votes in the appropriate spaces on the right. 
 
 For example, if a first choice vote is cast for A and no 
 second choice is expressed, there should be one tally to 
 the left of A's name. If on this ballot a second choice 
 vote is given to C enter one tally in the column where 
 A and C intersect, reading from left to right. 
 
 The record of the Vote indicated on this form should 
 be certified in the return as follows : 
 
 50 electors voted 50 first choice votes for A 
 and 25 second choice votes for B 
 and 25 second choice votes for C 
 
 45 electors voted 45 first choice votes for B 
 and 30 second choice votes for A 
 and 15 second choice votes for C 
 
 40 electors voted 40 first choice votes for C 
 and 20 second choice votes for A 
 and 20 second choice votes for B 
 
 Where there are two candidates to be nominated and 
 five or more running Form No. 3 will be used. In this 
 
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 form the votes have been tallied out and every possible 
 combination shown, and following this form will be found 
 instructions for counting the votes and making proper 
 record of same. 
 
 
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 There are six candidates, A, B, C, D, E, and F, and only 
 two can be nominated. It is required to so tally the vote 
 as to show the number of first choice votes received by 
 each candidate, either singly or in combination with 
 another candidate, and for which particular candidates 
 these voters, whether voting first choice singly or in com- 
 bination, cast their second choice votes. The names of 
 the candidates are perpendicularly arranged. It will be 
 noticed that the name of the candidates are in alpha- 
 betical order according to surnames. They will appear 
 in this order on the ballot, and the tally sheet is intended 
 to correspond with the ballot in this respect. Tally the 
 first choice vote of any candidate, or of any two candi- 
 dates in combination, in the appropriate space on the left 
 of the perpendicular column in which the names of the 
 candidates appear, and the second choice votes in the 
 appropriate spaces on the right. On the tally sheet ap- 
 pears every possible combination into which the names 
 of the candidates can enter. For example: If a first 
 choice vote is cast for A and B, and no second choice is 
 expressed, there should be one tally to the left of the 
 two names as they appear in combination. If on this 
 ballot, however, C and D are given the voter's second 
 choice, enter also one tally in the column where A and B 
 intersect with C, reading from left to right, which is the 
 third column to the right, and tally one vote in the 
 column where A and B intersect with D, reading from 
 left to right, which is the fourth column to the right. 
 
 The record of the vote indicated on this form should be 
 certified in the returns as follows : 
 
 100 electors voted 100 first choice votes for A 
 
 and 42 second choice votes for B 
 
 39 " " " G 
 
 38 " " " D 
 
 38 " k '' K 
 
 43 <. F 
 
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 90 electors voted 90 
 and 
 
 first choice votes for B 
 43 second choice votes for A 
 
 38 " . " " " C 
 
 36 " " " " D 
 
 32 " " E 
 
 31 " " " F 
 
 84 electors voted 84 
 and 
 
 first choice votes for C 
 
 28 second choice votes for A 
 
 33 " " " " B 
 
 40 " " " " D 
 
 42 " " " E 
 
 25 " " " " F 
 
 70 electors voted 70 
 and 
 
 first choice votes for D 
 22 second choice votes for A 
 31 " " B 
 
 34 " " " " C 
 
 27 " " " " E 
 
 26 " " " " F 
 
 100 electors voted 100 
 and 
 
 first choice votes for E 
 
 41 second choice votes for A 
 
 41 " " " " B 
 
 40 " " " " C 
 
 43 " " D 
 
 35 " " " " F 
 
 78 electors voted 
 and 
 
 first choice votes for F 
 28 second choice votes for A 
 31 " " " " B 
 
 33 " " " " C 
 
 39 " " " " D 
 
 25 " " " " E 
 
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