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Charter and Revised Ordinances of Lake City Florida (1912) Gillen & Hodges
Charter of the City of Lake City
after voting shall be required to withdraw from
the voting place. 85 85/257
Sec. 28. Any person making a false declara­
tion under the provisions of Section 26, or any
inspector who shall wilfully deceive any elector
in preparing his ballot, or any inspector who shall
disclose how any elector may have voted, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not less than ten nor more
than one hundred dollars.

Sec. 29. 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 bal­
lot 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 permitted 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. 30. After preparing his ballot 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 there­
from 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. 31. If the elector marks more names than
there are persons to be elected to an office, or if

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