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Show VOTLNG OF ABSENT ELECTORS Railroad mon ami others who arc called from home at election lime should be instructed in the voting of abent electors. The last legislature of Utah enacted a measure which allows any qualified elector, who is absent from the county of which he is an elector, to vol;. At anj tunc preceding a general election, any voter expecting lo be absent uu the day of such election, may make application to the couutv clerk of Weber county for an official absent-voter bal-lot. bal-lot. Application shall be in writing and, if necessary, the ballot shall b. delivered to any voter by mail. Upon receipt of the ballot, the voter must go before a notarj public and make affidavit of his absence from the county in which he is a voter and theu proceed to mail his ballot, mailing the same in an envelope provided, to the counts olerk The ballot must ar-rive ar-rive at the clerk's office on or before election day and be delivered to the election judges, with this notation on the envelope: "This envelope contains an absent-voter ballot and must bi H opened onl on election daj al the polls whih the same are open The judges take out the ballot therein contained and without un-folding un-folding the same, oi permitting it to br opened 'r examined, dcpoai' the same in the ballot box. Anv qualified elector, who has reason to believe that he will be absent from his city on election day, has the right to ask for and M receive one of the ballots, If he unexpectedly returns home, his re-coning re-coning a ballot will not prevent him casting his vote in the usual wav, unless h luis mailed in Lis ballol Hl " It is expected that scores of railroad men and salesmen travel inr out of Ogden will avail themselves of this method of recording H their votes, and already the county clerk is receiving applications for the ballot. j This system prevents the disf ranching of a man or woman wn u 13 ' is absenl from home on election day. |