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Charter and Revised Ordinances of Lake City Florida (1912) Gillen & Hodges
Charter of the City of Lake City
81
Sec. 15. All ballots shall be fastened together
in convenient numbers in books or blocks in such 81/257
manner that each ballot may be detached and re­
moved separately. Each ballot shall have at­
tached to it a stub with perforated lines of suffici­
ent size to enable one of the inspectors to write or
stamp his initials thereon, so attached to the
ballot that when the same is folded the stub can
be detached thereform without injury to the ballot
or exposing the contents thereof.

Sec. 16. There shall be provided at the polling
place on the morning of election, at the opening
of the polls at least twice as many ballots as the
registration lists show qualified electors.

Sec. 17. The Mayor or the Acting Mayor
shall provide a room or covered enclosure at the
polling place, its location to be designated by the
Mayor and to be at some convenient point in the
city. A space shall be railed off and constructed
with an opening at one end or side for entrance
of the voter and opening at the other for his exit,
as a polling place in which to hold election. In
such room or enclosure shall be provided booths
or compartments, one booth or compartment to
each one hundred or fraction of one hundred or
over fifty qualified electors registered for that
election and furnished 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
shelf or table shall be kept supplied with conveni­
ences for marking the ballots.

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