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Charter and Revised Ordinances of Lake City Florida (1912) Gillen & Hodges
Charter of the City of Lake City
87
The inspectors shall possess full authority to
maintain good order at the polls, and enforce 87/257
obedience to their lawful commands during an
election, and during the canvass and estimate
of the votes. There shall be at the polling place
a police officer who shall be required to be present
during the whole time that the polls are kept open
and until the election is completed, who shall be
subjected to all lawful commands of the inspesctors,
and who shall see that there is no interruption of
good order. Such police officer shall have power,
when nescesary to maintain the peace, to summon
a posse from among the bystanders to aid him in
maintaining the peace and good order at the polls.
If any person shall refuse to obey any lawful order
of the inspectors, or by disorderly conduct in their
presence or hearing shall interrupt or disturb their
proceedings, such inspectors may command such
police officer or other person present to take such
disorderly person into custody and to confine
him during the election and canvass; and it shall be
the duty of such police officer or other person
to obey said order. No Sheriff, duputy sheriff,
policeman or other officer shall be allowed to come
within the polling place unless summoned into
the same by a majority of the inspectors. On
failure of any Sheriff, deputy sheriff, policeman or
other officer to comply with the provisions of this
section, it shall be the duty of the inspectors of
election, or one of them to make affidavit against
such Sheriff, deputy sheriff, policeman or other
officer for their arrest.
Sec. 34. At the close of the election the in­
spectors and clerk shall immediately proceed to
open the ballot box, and in the presence of the pub­

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