| Show YOU CANT VOTE AFTER 7 P M at that hour the machine will be locked and sealed county attorney parley P christensen handed down clown an opinion yesterday in response to a letter from county clerk J U eldridge asking as to what time voting should cease and the meaning of the word poll the opinion follows 1 I have your communication enclosing request for an opinion as to the time that voting should cease and whether electors who are within the polling place immediately before tie seven should be permitted to vote after seven p m the answer to this question is contained in no compiled laws of utah 1898 this section reads as follows at all elections the polls shall he be opened at seven a mand con dinue open until seven 1 p in I 1 the same day this language is open to but one interpretation and that is tha thai L no votes shall be received and counted after seven p in the language ol of the section being equivalent to declaring that the polls shall be chosed at seven what poll means it by poll were v ere meant the house or enclosure in which the voting is done then RS as you suggest has been the custom heretofore to wit to permit those electors who were inside ot of the polling place at seven 1 p in to vote might be permitted but even then it would be clearly unfair for while some rooms where votia voting g is lone done might hold a dozen ii li kienle cole enle others lilse like the city and county building where a polling place will be established might contain at seven several hundred people a all or of whom under that rule would bs be pei bitted to cast their ballot after seven p in the word poll used in the statute does not refer to the place where the voting is done but rather to the registration lists the poll or register ot of electors these poll lists should be opened and votes should be received at seven a TO and they should close and no votes should be received after seven p in you are therefore advised that no votes should be received and counted alter after seven 1 p m that at blat th at hour the poll books should be closed the voting machines locked and sealed and no further voting toting permitted salt lal lake i e R republican 1 ca 11 |
