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Lorsque le document est trop grand pour 6tre reproduit en un seul clich6, il est film6 d partir de I'angle sup6rieur gauche, de gauche d droite, et de haul en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images n6cessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mSthode. 32 X 1 2 3 4 5 6 CONSERVATIVE Handbook ON Election Laws -FOW- The Dominion Election, 1900. Issued f jr circulation among the Workers and Agents of the Liberal-Conservativ^i Party of Nova Scotia. JOHN A. MacK'NNON, Barrister. Secretary Liberal-Conservative Union of Nova Scotia. METKOHOr.K UlIILDING HALIFAX N S ^ ^'-^ ^'-^^ ^^ iS^': ^A ^^^'^'C=>>c=p. ^'c=^'c=y'a^'c:^'c=^^'a^^.^.^,^.'^,^.'^,^ Public Arcliives cf Nova Scotia HALIFAX, N. S, > HINTS TO LIBEfiAL-CONSERWTIfE AGENIS AND DOMINION ELECTIONS, 1900. Nomination Day Wednesday, October 3Lst. Election Day Wednesday, November 7th. GENERAL. A general election is now pending, and the time has arrived when the members and friends of the Liberal-Conservative Party should prepare for the campaign in which they will shortly be engaged. The importance of organization cannot be over-estimated, and it should be the aim of all to make that organization as thorough and effective as possible. In every polling district in each County the Liberal-Con- servative electors should immediately meet and form a committee for the purpose of managing the work in the particu- lar district. A chairman and a secretary should be appointed, and the names of the committee-men and of the chairman and secretary should at once be sent to the secretary of the Central County Organization. The chairman of the district committee should at once obtain from the secretary of the central organization, copies of the voters list for his district, and should place them in the hands of thoroughly reliable persons so that the district may be carefully canvassed. As soon as possible after the receipt of the lists they should be carefully gone over for the purpose of classifying the names of the voters thereon as nearly as possible, as follow! : Persons certain to vote for Liberal-Conservative candidates. Persons certain to vote against our candidates. c. Doubtful. d. Voters absent from the district. a. b. Be careful not to loark any voter lor us without good reason. Do not take anything for granted. Ascertain the present residence and political leanings of all absent voters, Be most careful that no information re(i;ardinjj your mak- ing or classification of voters be given to friends of the other side. Secrecy is essential to success, and, that secrecy may be ensured, it is advisable that NO more than two lists be marked as suggested— that one of these be kept by the secretary for the district and the other sent as soon as possible by registered letter to the secretary of the Central County organization. The District Committee should have regular meetings for the purpose of comparing notes and seeing that the canvass is being properly and thoroughly conducted. Committee men should watch very carefully the proceed- ings of the persons working against our Candidates, and should report to the Central County organization. Any diJficuUieH met ivith in the canvass or any influences found interfering u'ifh the canvass skouUl also be carefidly reported. Chairmen of Committees should make up returns showing the result of their work up to Nomination Day, and should im- mediately send them to the Secretary of the Central County Organization. Applications for special agents, or for the transfer of voters should be made to the Secretary of the Central County Organ- ization not later than Nomination Day. After Nomination Day Committees should make arrange- ments for getting out every available voter. Nothing should be left to chance. Each committee man should have allotted to him a certain number of voters, and he should be charged with the duty of having such voters brought to the polls. Arrange for the manning of the polling booths. Two in- side and TWO outside Agents for each candidate should be ap- pointed. Inside Agents must have written authority from the candidates whom they represent. The inside agents should be furnished with a marked voters' list, which should show what voters are to be sworn or objected to. See that arrangements are made for polling the non-resident vote. Arrange to have on election day, outside the polling booth, an agent with a voters' list, instructed to mark olf the names of the voters who have come up, and have also a strong force of active workers to meet electors and instruct them how to mark their ballots. 3 ELECTION DAY. (References are to Dominion Elections Act, unless otherwise stated.) Instructions for Agents. The poll opens at 9 A. M. and closes at 5 P. M. Every Agent should be present at the booth at least 15 minutes before 9 o'clock, and see that his name as Agent is entered in the poll book by the Deputy returning officer, (Sec 59.) The Agent, if he is to act in a polling .section other than that in which he is registered, should, before election day, ob- tain from the returning officer a certiticate of tran.sfer. (Sec. 54.) If agents have not written authority, two electors may act- (Sec. 53.) But agents with written authority have prior right, (Sec. 53.) No person is entitled or permitted to be present in any booth other than the officers, candidates or agents authorized to ■attend at the polling place, except two agents to represent each candidate who has no agent. (Sec. 53.) Deputy returning officers, poll clerks and agents shall, be- fore the opening of the poll, take and subscribe the oath of secrecy required, which oath may be administered by the re- turning officer, deputy returning officer, or a Justice of the Peace. Insist on this, make note of agent's name and that he took oath. If oath is not taken make formal protest and note it. (Sec. 58) It is advisable for agents to take *>:« oath of secrecy be- fore a Justice of the Peace /^e/bi^e ^jo^^Mt^ .'72/, and when this is done the oath signed by the agent, and sh -uld be handed to the Deputy Returning. Officer, by agent upon entering the booth. _ The deputy returning officer, must, immediately before the voting commences, exhibit the ballot box to those present in the booth, so that they may see that it is empty. He must then lock the box and keep it locked until the close of the poll. Agents arc entitled to have the packets of ballots intended Jor use carefully counted in their presence before opening poll and Jiave the right to inspect i;hem and all other papers and doanivQiiifi if agents are in attendance 15 minutes before the opening of poll. Inspect with utmost care. (Sec. 59.) Examine the compartment where voters are to mark ballots, see that there is no chance of exhibiting the X or of communication by window or otherwise with the outside. Ex- amine the lead pencil, see that it is a black lead pencil (Sec. 72) -If it is a very soft lead pencil, object that in folding or pressinfiT, the ballot may bo spoiled by duplicating cross Do. rnand proper lead pencil. Require the Deputy Returning Officer to make the change, tell outside scrutineer to caution our voters to use only a black lead pencil ; if -inothor color tound in compartn.ent. votur should demand black lead uencil and a new ballot if he has spoiled one. ^ Have a Voters' List, carefully prepared with notes, for vour guidance, showing each voter you are to object to and to sw'oar • a so be prepared to sustain any of your own voters who may bo' objected to by the opposing Agent. ^ Check off your list each voter as he votes, and sneciallv note those sworn. If any voter is objected to or sworn or refuses to be sworn the deputy returning officer must enter that tact in the poll book opposite his name, recording at the -ame time by or on behalf of which candidate the objection has lH)en made. Agents should remain on duty until all proceedings are closed. Do not go to dinner. Take lunch to poll. Do n,!t con- sent to any adjournment. Object to it and remain at poll. In- sist that the ballot box be on the table and kept there all the time m sight of all entitled to be present. Do not allow yourself to be placed at a distance. Insist hrmly on your right to be where you, on behalf of the Oandi- date you represent, can see that the law is carried out in every particular. Do not allow anything to be neglected. Have everything done strictly according to the statute even thou«h you think It unimportant. Scrutinize every act and every nor- •son including every official, You are entrusted uith a very im- portant duty. Be vlligant first, last and always. «o o?^'"j^" ^P P°'''°^ P'^^*^ ""*i' yo^' have seen sections 80 HI S2, 83 and sub-sections, strictly complied vvith, and until 'you' vZl m I>«P»ty Returning Officer's signed certilicato. i^orm AA of number of votes given for each Candidate and of number ot ballots rejected. Very important. See that the deputy returning officer and clerk both sijr„ Zl \Tnn \^^t ^^^^r^' "^" ^°^ "Y" of Dominion Elections Act, 1900, which are also attached to the poll book Thi^ 'in important. ^ ^ms i» WHO MAY VOTE. The right to vote at elections for the House of Commons of Canada is governed by the Dominion Franchise Act of 18(i8 and the Dominion Elections Act of 1900. Section 5 of the Dominion Franchise Act 1898 contains the loliowing provisions : (a.) The qualifications necessary to entitle any oerson to vote at an election tor the House of Commons in any Province shall be those established hy the laws of that Province as necessary to entitle such person to vote in the same part of the Province at a provlncml election ; (b.) The polling divisions shall be those established by or under the laws of that province for the purpose of provincial elections within the territory comprised in the electoral district tor which .such election is held ; re) The voters' lists shall be those prepared for the several polling divisions so established and which on the sixtieth day next preceding the day fixe.I for the nomination ot candidates tor such Donunion election were in force or were last in force under the laws of that province for the purposes of provincial elections. ^ ' Section 5 sub-paragraph (F) enacts that the provisions of JiL ""u ^ P''«vi"ce a.s to the place where non-resident electors shall yo e sha 1 supply the Dominion elections. Sections }>+ and 6o of the Nova Scotia Elections Act provide that no elector shall be permitted to vote in more than one polling district or division in this province on the same day and that no ee'.>. having aright to vote in the County in which atthedati o. the election writ he resided shall be permitted to vote in any other County. Apparently the effect of these provisions is that an elector can vote at Dominion elections in only one County on the same day in the Province of Nova Scotia. At elections for the Home of Assembly for this Province, certain persons holchng Dominion offices are disqualified by section 07 of the Provincial Act above referrecl to. These disqualifications do not apply to elections for the House of tonimons as section V> of the Dominion Franchise Act of 1898 contains the foUGiuinf/ provisions : « -"^u Pfu'^°'^ possessed of the qualifications generally re- quired by the provincial law to entitle him to vote ah « nrn. - viDciai election, shall be disqualified from voting at a Dominion 6 ;; election .norely by reason of any provision of the provincial law dpual.ty.ns from havin. his name on the listT from PERSONS DISaUALIFIED. Franlhiso Act oiTso^s'T""' "7- ^"^^^l"^''««;J ^y the Dominica rranchiso Act ot 1898. from votin;? at any Dominion election : the Governor' Genld"' ''°"' "'"" appointment rests with uons 1^0 and 129 of the Dommion Election Act 1900 Uof^he'^rcZfltor'''"''^^'^''""^ '"'^^ ""^'^^ ^'^^P*- R.f. * • ^^A"^"^"^ 2®'^^''''' ^"'^ Election Clerks, but not Deoutv Returning Officers. Poll Clerks, or Constables. The Returning c^ndL'tr"' '°"""' '''' '"^ '''' '' ^" ^^"^'i^y betwtrn twa tho.Lf^"\P''u°"'^''°.^^ ^''y time, either before or durinc. reterence thereto by any person as counsel, attorney solicitor agent or clerk at any polling place at any ,;„ch eSon o in any other capacity, and who has received or expects to receive foA.?' "''' ^"u""^ '' ^^^'' '^' ««'^' «'^«'i^n t>om any person' for acting in such capacity as aforesaid. . .y sum of monev fee office, place or employment, or any promise. pled«e o^secuHty for any sum of money, fee. office, place or employ ment^ Qualification of Voters Absent on Military Ser ice. by reason^'nrJ'nflT'^"''^ J° ""'^f' P'?°" ^^*^" ^' disqualified of attaohpd f '"'" ^'T Electoral District serving with or attached to any corps sent from Canada on military strvice or performing such service within Canada, or acting as war correspondent-Sec. 69. See form of oath Sub Sec 2 If Sretub's".' f"""''^ "^"^^-^ notonlist, he'may vote." OATHS OF aUALIFICATION. n\.r\r ■"; /' '■^^'"'•^'^ ^y the deputy returning officer, poll Zl ' ^J"'''''^teH or agents, shall before recoiving hi« ballot take mchoatk ofquahpcationas by the lav of the, P7ovlncc he may m l.k. case at a Provincial Election be required to take, such changes having been n.ado in the form of oath as are necessary to make it applicable to the election being held, and shall aho if so required take the oath in Form U. "See 65.) The following are the Provincial Affidavits referred to : OATfl NUMREU ONE. A. B,, do swear that I am qualified t^ " T, A. 15 fjo swear that I am qualified t- vote at this election that I am of the full age of twenty-one years, and am a Hritish subject, that I reside at ...., that I am the person named in the register as " (here recite the name as written or spelt in the register) " as I verily believe, and that I have not before given my vote at this election. So help me God." OATH NUMBER TWO. '' I, A. B., do swear that I have not received by myself or another or any person in trust for me, or to my use directly or indirectly, any sum of meney, office, place, or emolument, or gitt, reward, or any promise or security for any money, office or employment or gift, in order to give my vote at this election! no help me God. OATH NUMUER THREE. "I, A. B.. do swear that I have not within twelve calendar months next before this day received aid as a pauper under any poor law of this Province, or aid as a poor person from any public grant of government money. So help me God." DOMINION FORM U. You swear {or solemnly affirm)— That you have not been disfranchised under the provisions ot the Act to disfranchise voters who have taken bribes or for corrupt practices under the Dominion Elections Act ; ' ^ That you have not voted before at this election, either at tins or at any other polling place ; That you have not received anything, that vou do nnfc expect anything, nor has anything been promised you, directly ■or indirectly, to induce you to vote at this election, either for lossot time, traveling expenses, hire of team, cr for any other service connected therewith ; « . ^r lor any otner That you have not, directly or indirectly, paid or promised anything to any person either to induce him to vote or tS reS from voting at this election ; rerrain election'' TlS^ ;:u td^^^" '^^^"^"'^' '^°" ^°^^"^ ^' ^^- Additional Clauses of Oaths for Special Cases. T.~(Section 04..) Oath of voter zvhose name omitted on account of Provincial Disqualifications. tn vny^^Ti"^' (^■^^^^'^"'.y affirm) that you are legally qualified to vote at this election, and that you verily believe that vour name was omitted from the list;of voter/by reason of four otTo?; ■ so'hdv:;;; Go.t'"' ""' '''' "^^ p'p^^'^^' ''' ^"^ - y.~(S('ction 74..) * Oath of Identity hy voter receiving a ballot paper, after another ha.s voted in his name. Yo» swear(orsolemnlyafErm) that you are r^ame J of (as on the hst Of voters) whose name is entered ^n the Hst of voters now shown you. So help you God. W. — [Section i-'i.) Oath of voter unable to mark his ballot paper. and fl'.l'nT"^/ ^Tn"'T n^ '^'"'^ ^^^^ ^^^ ""'^ ""^ble to read and to in<]erstand the ballot so as to mark it, (or that vou are incapacitate,! by blindness or other physical 'cluse a. To": 'iiay be, from voting) without assistance. So help you God ^hM^J"^^^^' u'n\''*""r ^" take any of the foregoing oaths shall receive a ballot or be admitted to vote. (Sec. 68.) FuJlc Arcl;!.yss of Nova Sco, 9 for ther lised rain this VOTING. cial fied our our no her of ad ire tse hs i Vic Arcl.lm of The deputy returning officer on application of any voter, who IS unable to read, or is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause, from voting in the manner prescribed by the Act, shall permit him to vote only upon his taking the oath in the form W, (Sec. 7o.) The agent should insist on this oath being administered before a voter's ballot is marked for him. The deputy returnin<^ officer and one agent of each can.lidate should retire with the voter, after he has taken the above oath, to the voting com- partment. The deputy returning officer should then ask the voter for whom he votes and mark the ballot accordingly in the presence of the agents, and should then forthwith deposit the ballot in the baP-*-, box, and also cause to be marked opposite the voter's nan the reason why his ballot was marked for nun. (Sec. 75.) When a voter applies for a ballot in the name of a person who has already voted he shall be entitled to vote upon takin^r the oath "V," but the Deputy Returning Officer is to put hil initials and the number opposite the elector's name in the poll book, and is to make a note of such second votincr in the poll book. (Sec. 74.) " Each elector (if entitled to vote) shall receive from Deputy Keturning Officer a ballot paper, on back of which Deputy Keturning Officer has previously put his initials, so placed that when balloc is folded they can be seen,— and on counter- toil of which Deputy Returning Officer has placed a number corre.sponding to number placed opposite voter's name in poll bojk (not the number on voter's list). Sec. 70. The Deputy Returning Officer shall instruct elector how and where to affix his mark, and how to fold his ballot paper, but without inquiring or seeing for whom he intends to veto, except in case of illiterates, etc. (Sec. 71.) Be watchful that voter is not directed so as to vote for a particular candidate. The elector, on receiving ballot paper, shall go into com- partment and there mark his ballot paper making a X ivith a black lead penal within the white space containing the name of Candidate for whom he votes. He shall then fold the paper so that the initials and .stamp and counterfoil number can be seen without opening it. He shall so hand it to the Deputy Return- ing Officer, who shall, without unfolding it, ascertain by examining his initials, and the stamp and number, that it l.s the same he furnished the elector. Nova Scotk JO The Deputy Returnmg Officer shall then, m full view of those present including elector, remove the counterfoil and- DESTROY IT, and place the ballot paper in ballot box, wh'chbox shall be placed on table in full vieiv of those present. (Sec 72) Voter who has spoiled ballot paper f^iven him may return it iLu'^U^^- ^'^^\l'^SOmcer. who shall deface it. and the voter shall obtain another ballot paper in its place (Sec. 73). (See that the spoiled paper is properly preserved and returned, so that the count may be right). Every officer, clerk and agent in attendance at a pollinc^ place or in counting the votes, shall maintain and assist in maintaining the secrecy of the voting at the polling place. JNo otbcer. clerk, or agent, or other person, shall interfere with or attempt to interfere with a voter when marking his ballot ; nor attempt to obtain at the polling place information as to the candidate for whom any voter at such polling place is about to vote or has voted. ^ No officer, clerk, agent, or other person, shall communicate at any time, to any person, any information obtained at a po ing place as to the candidate for whom any voter at such polling place is about to vote or has voted, unless required to da so by a court of law. No person shall directly or indirectly induce any voter to display his ballot paper after he shall hav« marked the same so as to make known to any person the name of the candidate'for or against whom he has inarke<^ placed in a large envelope, which shall be sealed and put in ballot box— Sec. 83 (3). _ 10th. The ballot box shall then be locked and sealed with Deputy Returning Officer's seal, and be /br^/r;ri^/t delivered by Deputy Potnrning Officer to Returning Officer or Electioa Clerk— Sec. cS.3 (4). 12 BALLOTS NOT TO BE COUNTED ARE : 1. Those whose have not been supplied by the Deputy Returning Officer. 2. Those by which votes have been given for more Candidates than are to be elected. 3. Those upon which there is any writing or mark by which the voter can be identified, other than the numbering by the Deputy Returning Officer in special cases provided for. POLLOWING IRREGULARITIES HELD FATAL TO VOTE: 1. A single stroke instead of a cross. 2. A mark which in itself is a means of identification, such as initial or some other mark known as used by the voter. 3. Two single strokes not crossing. FOLLOWING HELD NOT FATAL TO VOTE : 1. Irregular mark in the figure of a cross, so long as it does net lose the form of a cross. (You will observe that allow- ance is made for inexpert people, who intend to make a cross , and do so roughly.) 2. A cro.-?s with a line before it. (The line may have been made by an inexpert in the attempt to make a cross") 3. Inadvertent marks in addition to the cross. 4. Ballot paper inadvertently torn. 5. A cross made with double lines. PENALTIES. Every one who : (a.) forges, counterfeits, fraudulently alters, defaces or fraudulently destroys a ballot paper or the initials of the deputy returnmg officer signed thereon, or— {h.) without authority supplies a ballot paper to any person, or — (c.) fraudulently puts into a ballot box a paper other than the ballot paper which he is authorized by law to put in, or— (d.) fraudulently takes a ballot paper out of the'nodin» station, or — ^ ^ (e.) without due authority destroys, takes, opens or other- wise interferes with a ballot box or book or packet of ballot papers then in use for the purposes of the election, or— (/■) forges or counterfeits any stamp for the stamping of irallot papers as provided by paragraph (c.) of section 41 of this iiCt, vv uses {i iny such .stamp for any purpose other than 13 the stamping of ballot papers pursuant to the said paragraph, or not being a returning officer, has in his possession any such stamp or any counterfeit or imitation thereof, or — (g.) being a deputy returning officer, fraudulently puts, otherwise than as authorized by section 70 of this Act, his. initials on the back of any paper purporting to be or capable of being used as a ballot paper at an election, oi' — (h.) with fraudulent intent, prints any ballot paper or what purports to be or is capable of being used as a ballot paper at an election, or — (i.) being authorized by the returning officer to print the ballot papers for an election, with fraudulent intent prints more ballot papers than he is authorized to print, or — (j.) attempts to commit any otience specified in this section, — is guilty of an indictable oftence, and shall be liable, if he is a returning officer, deputy returning officer or other officer engaged at the election, to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and not less than three dollars, or to imprison- ment for a term not exceeding five years and not less than one year, with or without hard labour, in default of paying such fine, — and it he is any other person, to a fine not less than one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years and not less than six months, with or without hard labour, in default of paying such fine. ('Sec. 79.) SUMMARY PROCEDURE AGAINST PERSONATORS. "If a person is charged at a polling place with having com- mitted the offence of personation, the deputy returning officer at such polling place may, and if requested so to do on behalf of a candidate shall, take the information on oath of the person making the charge ; and such information may be in the form DD." 2. " If the person against whom it is proposed to lay the information has not left the polling place, the deputy returning officer may, either on his own motion or at the request of any one proposing forthwith to lay an information against such per- .son, detain or direct the detention of such person until an infor- mation can be drawn up." 3. " Upon receiving the information the Deputy Returning Officer may, on the polling day, but not afterwards, issue his warrant, in the form EE, for the arrest of the person charged, in order that he may be brought before the magistrate or one of the magistrates therein named, to answer to the said infor- mation and to be further dealt with according to law." 14 4. " The magistrate or magistrates na;ned in the warrant shall be such as dettned by section 782 of The Criminal Code, 1892,^ as amended, and the nearest available within the county."' 5. " The provisions of part LV of the said Code shall apply to all proceedings under this section." G. " Such warrant shall be sufficient authority for any peace officer (as defined by The Criminal Code, 1892,) to detain such person until he is brought before the magistrate." 7. " If the correct name of the person charged is unknown to the informant, it shall be sufficient in the information and other proceedings to describe the person charged as a person whose name is to the informant unknown, but who is detained under the order of the deputy returning officer ; or the person charged may be described in such other manner as will suitably identify him ; and when the name of the person so charged is ascertained, it shall be stated in any subsequent warrant or proceeding." 8. " Every poll clerk shall have the authority of a con- stable for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section; and every Deputy Returning Officer may appoint such special constables as he deems nscessary for the like purpose ; and such person shall have full power to act without taking anv oath." (Sec. 132.) __ ^ ^ BEWARE OF THE MACHINE. No doubt an attempt will be made by the Grits to intro- duce the Ontario Election Machine or its methods into Nova Scotia. This machine is worked by skilled and unscrupulous workers especially instructed and sometimes imported into a district for the purpose. All strangers, therefore, who, durinf^ the contest or on election day appear in the district should be closely watched and their movements noted. Dangerous men belonging to the polling district should also be watched. THEIR DEVICES. They place in the hands of voters ballots worked for the Grit Candidates, induce the voter to conceal the ballot given by the presiding officer and then hand to the presiding officer the bogus ballot already marked. Another device is for an unscrupulous Presiding Officer when a Liberal-Conservative voter hands him a ballot to be deposited in the box, instead of so depositing it to substitute one marked for the Grit Candidate in its place. Thu is ccdled Sivitching Ballots. In the event of the appointment of a presidintr olticer in whom the agents have not the utmoat confidence a°constant watch should be kept to prevent the operation of these devices. 15 Thit Ik to be van'fyllii Jilted in by Scrutineer, in addition to (lotting Certificate from Dcputij Keturniny Officer, AGENT'S STATEMENT OF THE POLL. ITollin); Division No.. ■Electoral District of Counting ballot ))aper8 ■before ',) a.m. 1st packoge, -No. of Unllots in 2nd pacltage,— No. of Ballots in ■".rd packiige,— No. of Ballots in 4tli package, — No. of Ballots in ,Hli package, — No. of Ballots in fith pai'kage, — No. of Ballots in Total - - Total number of electors who have voted, as entered after name of last vote, Number of Ballot Papers in hands of Deputy Returning Oflicer at y a.m. - Number of Ballot Papers cast for Mr Number of Ballot Papers cast for Mr Number at Ballot Papers cast for Mr Number ef Ballot Papers c;i.-