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(c) If the office is that of state senator or assemblyman, the names of all candidates for such office shall be placed upon the ballot in alphabetical order.

(d) If the office is a municipal office in any city or town whose charter does not provide for the order in which names shall appear on the ballot, the names of candidates for such office shall be placed upon the ballot in alphabetical order.

If the nomination of a candidate for any office shall be made by petition, filed within the time and manner provided by law, but subsequent to the determination of the order in which names of candidates shall appear on the ballot, the name of such candidate with the word "Independent" printed to the right thereof, shall be placed on the ballot next below the names of the other candidates for the same office; provided, however, that in the case of judicial officers and school officers the word "Independent" shall be omitted.

3. All ballots shall be not to exceed twenty-four inches in length, and shall be four inches in width, and as many times such width as may be necessary to contain the names of all candidates nominated, with proper blank spaces to allow the voter to write in names not printed on the ballot, and also a separate column or columns of sufficient width for statements of all questions, propositions, or constitutional amendments submitted to vote of the electors. Each group of candidates to be voted on shall be headed by the designation of the office and the words "Vote for One" or "Vote for Two" or more, according to the number to be elected to such office; such designation of the office and of the number of candidates to be voted for shall be printed in heavyfaced gothic type, not smaller than ten point. The word or words designating the office shall be printed flush with the left-hand margin and the words "Vote for One" or "Vote for Two" or more, as the case may be, shall extend to the extreme right of the column and over the voting square. The designation of the office and the directions for voting shall be separated from the names of the candidates by a light line. The names of the candidates for such office shall be printed in eight point Roman type (capitals) in proper order below the designation of the office, and in the same line in which the name of the candidate is printed and at the right of the name, or immediately below the name if there shall not be sufficient space to the right thereof, shall be printed in eight point Roman type (lower case) the designation of the political party or parties by or on behalf of which such candidate has been nominated; provided, that when a candidate has been nominated by petition, the word, "Independent," shall be printed to the right of his name, and provided, also, that as to candidates for judicial offices, and school offices the designation of the political party or parties, or the word "Independent," if there be an independent candidate, shall be omitted. The name of the candidate, and the designation of the political party or parties by which he has been nominated shall be printed in a space one-half inch in depth, and shall be defined by light horizontal ruled lines, with a blank space on the right thereof one-half

inch square, which blank space (called the voting square) shall be made use of by the voter to designate, by stamping a cross (X) therein and after the name of the candidate, his choice of particular candidates. 4. The names of the candidates for an office shall not be separated from each other on the ballot by names of candidates for any other office, and the list of candidates for each office shall be separated from the lists of candidates for other offices by a double rule, above and below such list. Each series of the lists of candidates for the several offices shall be headed by the word "State," "Congressional," "Legislative," "County," or "Municipal" or other proper general classification, as the case may be, printed in heavy faced gothic capital type, not smaller than twelve point, each such word being separated from the names of the candidates beneath by a three point line.

5. The left-hand side of each column of names on the ballot and also the right-hand side of each column of voting squares, shall be bordered by a broad printed line one-twelfth of an inch wide, and the edge of the ballot on the left-hand side thereof, shall be trimmed off up to the first border or solid line, on the left-hand side of the ballot, and on the right-hand side of the ballot shall be perforated along the border, or solid line above described. The ballot shall be so printed as to give each voter a clear opportunity to designate by stamping a cross (X) in a blank inclosed space, herein before designated as the voting square, on the right of and after the name of each candidate whose name is printed on the ballot, his choice of particular candidates. The ballot shall be printed on the same leaf with a stub and separated therefrom by a perforated line across the top of the ballot. On each ballot a perforated line shall extend from top to bottom, along the border or solid line herein before described, one-half inch from the right-hand side of the ballot, and upon the half-inch strip thus formed there shall be no printing except the number of the ballot, which shall be upon the back of such strip in such position that it will appear on the outside when the ballot is folded. The number on each ballot shall be the same as that on the corresponding stub, and the ballots and stubs shall be numbered consecutively in each county. All ballots printed by county clerks or registrars of voters other than the separate ballots containing the names only of candidates for city and county offices, printed by the county clerks or registrars of voters of consolidated cities and counties, shall have printed on the back, below the stub, and immedi ately at the left of the center of the ballot, in eighteen point gothic capitals, the words "General Ticket," and underneath the respective number of congressional, senatorial and assembly districts in which each ballot is to be voted; and all ballots printed by county clerks or registrars of voters of consolidated cities and counties containing the names of candidates for city and county offices, and also all ballots printed by the clerks, registrars of voters or secretary of a legislative body of any incorporated city or town, shall have printed in the same manner, on the back, the words, "Municipal Ticket."

All municipal ballots shall be printed upon paper of a different tint from that of the general ballot.

5. All of the ballots of the same sort prepared by any county clerk or registrar of voters, or clerk or secretary of a legislative body, or other person having charge of the preparing of such ballots, for the same polling place, shall be precisely the same size, arrangement, quality and tint of paper, and kind of type, and shall be printed with black ink of the same tint, so that without the numbers on the stubs it shall be impossible to distinguish any one of the ballots from the other ballots of the same sort; and the names of all candidates printed upon the ballot shall be in type of the same size and character.

6. If two or more officers are to be elected for the same office for different terms, the term for which each candidate for such office is nominated shall be printed on the ballot as a part of the title of the office. If at a general election an office is to be filled for a full term, and also for a vacancy in another term the list of candidates for the full term shall be placed on the ballot under the designation of the office with the words "Full Term" printed immediately thereafter, and the list of candidates to fill the vacancy shall be placed on the ballot under the designation of the office with the words "Short Term" printed immediately thereafter.

7. Whenever any question, proposition or constitutional amendment is to be submitted to the vote of the electors, there shall be printed at the right of the last column of names of candidates, another column, or columns of sufficient width, with voting squares, in which such question, proposition or constitutional amendment shall be designated, and opposite such question, proposition or constitutional amendment to be voted on, in separate lines, the words "Yes" and "No" shall be printed. If an elector shall stamp a cross (X) in the voting square after the printed word "Yes," his vote shall be counted in favor of the adoption of the question, proposition or constitutional amendment; if he shall stamp a cross (X) after the printed word "No," his vote shall be counted against the adoption of the same.

8. On the top of the face of the ballot the following directions shall be printed:

INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS:

To vote for a candidate of your selection, stamp a cross (X) in the voting square next to the right of the name of such candidate. Where two or more candidates for the same office are to be elected, stamp a cross (X) after the names of all the candidates for that office for whom you desire to vote, not to exceed, however, the number of candidates who are to be elected. If the ballot does not contain the names of candidates for all offices for which you may desire to vote, you may vote for candidates for such offices so omitted, by writing the name of the candidate for whom you wish to vote in the blank space left for that purpose. To vote for a person not on the ballot, write

the name of such person under the title of the office in the blank space left for that purpose.

To vote on any question, proposition or constitutional amendment, stamp a cross (X) in the voting square after the word "Yes" or after the word "No." All marks, except the cross (X) are forbidden. All distinguishing marks or erasures are forbidden and make the ballot void. If you wrongly stamp, tear or deface this ballot, return it to the inspector of election and obtain another.

9. Except as to the order of the names of candidates, the ballots shall be printed substantially in the following form:

[Indorsement on back of ballot]

GENERAL TICKET.

SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
THIRTY-EIGHTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT.
SEVENTY-SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT.

[Amendment approved March 20, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 405.]
Citations. App. 8/678.

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