The Ballot Act, 1872, with an Introduction: Forming a Guide to the Procedure at Parliamentary and Municipal ElectionsStevens and sons, 1876 - 212 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 101 - Any ballot paper which has not on its back the official mark, or on which votes are given to more candidates than the voter is entitled to vote for, or on which anything, except the said number on the back, is written or marked by which the voter can be identified, shall be void and not counted.
الصفحة 103 - ... and shall not communicate, except for some purpose authorised by law, before the poll is closed, -to any person any information as to the name or number on the register of voters of any elector who has or has not applied for a ballot paper or voted at that station, or as to the official mark.
الصفحة 101 - At the time of voting the ballot paper shall be marked on both sides with an official mark, and delivered to the voter within the polling station, and the number of such voter on the register of voters shall be marked on the counterfoil ; and the voter, having secretly marked his vote on the paper, and folded it up so as to conceal his vote...
الصفحة 102 - Without due- authority, destroys, takes, opens, or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or packet of ballot papers then in use for the purposes of the election...
الصفحة 133 - ... candidates appointed to attend at the counting of the votes notice in writing of the time and place at which he will begin to count the same.
الصفحة 127 - Printing-House, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St.
الصفحة 130 - Every ballot paper shall contain a list of the candidates described as in their respective nomination papers, and arranged alphabetically in the order of their surnames, and (if there are two or more candidates with the same surname) of their other names : it shall be in the form set forth in the Second Schedule to this Act or as near thereto as circumstances admit, and shall be capable of being folded up.
الصفحة 137 - The presiding officer may do, by the clerks appointed to assist him, any act which he is required or authorised to do by this Act at a polling station except ordering the arrest, exclusion, or ejection from the polling station of any person (a). 51. A candidate may himself undertake the duties which any...
الصفحة 39 - You do swear [or affirm, as the, case may be] that you are the same person whose name appears as AB in the register of voters now in force for the county of [or for the riding, parts...
الصفحة 102 - Any attempt to commit any offence specified in this section shall be punishable in the manner in which the offence itself is punishable.