Rogers on Elections ...Stevens and Sons, limited, 1894 |
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48 Vict 57 Vict alderman apply appointed auditors Ballot Act ballot boxes ballot paper borough bribery candidate chairman charge Cirencester Corrupt and Illegal corrupt practice costs counterfoil county council county council elections day of election Day's Day's El declaration deputy returning officer disqualified elec Election Court election expenses election of guardians election of parish election of rural election of urban election petition entitled to vote evidence given guilty held High Court Ibid illegal practice incurred judge mayor ment Municipal Corporations Municipal Corporations Act nomination paper notice offence parish council parish councillors parish meeting parish or ward parliamentary election parochial electors petitioner places of abode polling agent polling districts polling station presiding officer purpose qualified question relating respect respondent rule rural district councillors Schedule school board Stepney thereof tion town clerk trial united parishes urban district councillors vestrymen voter Walsall
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 320 - ... intimidation upon or against any person, in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting...
الصفحة 594 - ... to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour.
الصفحة 543 - Petition shall be divided into paragraphs, each of which, as nearly as may be, shall be confined to a distinct portion of the subject...
الصفحة 484 - The following persons shall also be deemed guilty of bribery, and shall be punishable accordingly:— (1.) Every voter who shall, before or during any election, directly or indirectly, by himself or any other person on his behalf, receive, agree, or contract for any money, gift, loan, or valuable consideration, office, place, or employment, for himself or for any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting at any election...
الصفحة 582 - The offence of personation, or of aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring the commission of the offence of personation by any person, shall be a felony, and any person convicted thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years together with hard labour.
الصفحة 435 - Whether any corrupt practice has or has not been proved to have been committed by or with the knowledge and consent of any candidate at such election, and the nature of such corrupt practice...
الصفحة 392 - ... 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, shall place it in a closed box in the presence of the officer presiding at the polling station (in this act called "the presiding officer") after having shown to him the official mark at the back.
الصفحة 106 - A person shall, for all purposes of this act, be deemed guilty of the offence of personation, who, at any election held pursuant to the laws of the State, applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead, or of a fictitious person, or who, having voted once at any election, applies at the same election for a ballot paper in his own name...
الصفحة 392 - 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 393 - ... 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.