Metropolitan Borough Councils Elections: A Guide to the Election of the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of Metropolitan BoroughsStevens and Sons, 1900 - 140 pages |
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Page 53 - ... give or lend, or shall offer, promise, or promise to procure or to endeavour to procure, any money, or valuable consideration, to or for any voter, or to or for any person on behalf of any voter, or to or for any other person in order to induce any voter to vote, or refrain from voting...
Page 100 - ... tendered ballot paper) shall be of a colour differing from the other ballot papers, and, instead of being put into the ballot box, shall be given to the presiding officer and endorsed by him with the name of the voter and his number in the register of voters, and set aside in a separate packet, and shall not be counted by the returning officer. And the name of the voter and his number on the register shall be entered on a list, in this act called the tendered votes list.
Page 54 - ... 3. Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself, or by any other person on his behalf, make any such gift*, loan, ofler, promise, procurement, or agreement as aforesaid, to or for any person, in order to induce such person to procure, or endeavour to procure, the return of any person to serve in Parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election ! 4.
Page 110 - ... his ballot paper will be void, and will not be counted. If the voter takes a ballot paper out of the polling station, or deposits in the ballot box any other paper than the one given him by the officer, he will be guilty of a misdemeanour, and be subject to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour.
Page 95 - 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.
Page 103 - ... if an objection be in fact made by any agent to his decision. The returning officer shall report to the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery the number of ballot papers rejected and not counted by him under the several heads of — (1.) Want of official mark ; (2.) Voting for more candidates than entitled to; (3.) Writing or mark by which voter could be identified ; (4.) Unmarked or void for uncertainty; and shall on request allow any agents of the candidates, before such report is sent, to copy it.
Page 78 - No misnomer, or inaccurate description of any person or place named in any notice or nomination paper, under this order, shall hinder the full operation of such notice or paper with respect to that person or place, provided the description of that person or place is such as to be commonly understood.
Page 93 - ... and any presiding officer and any clerk appointed by the returning officer to attend at a polling station shall have the power of asking the questions and administering the oath authorised by law to be asked of and administered to voters, and any justice of the peace and any returning officer may take and receive any declaration authorised by this Act to be taken before him.
Page 98 - ... 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.