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Show Davis, Cache, Carbon and Salt Lake Counties Instructions to Voters FOR PREPARING BALLOTS HOW TO OBTAIN BALLOT FOR VOTING 1. Give your name and address to an Election Judge. 2. If your name is on the Official Register, and your right to vote has not been challenged, the Election Judge will present a ballot or ballots to you. NOTE: If an Election Judge has reason to doubt any person's identity, the Judge shall either, (a) request identification from the voter, or (b) have the voter identified by a known registered voter of the district. HOW TO VOTE BALLOT On receiving your ballot from the Election Judge, immediately retire alone to one of the voting booths and vote your ballot as follows: STEP 2 Be sure the two holes at the top of the card fit over the two red pins on the Vote Recorder. jro- j . J ) TO NEXT 1 PAGE - . L I OWttw - I ' I 9 MOVtMIK iHc i STEP 1 Using both hands, slide the ballot card all the way into the Vote Recorder. Minium mrtimuf KM h STEP 3 To vote, hold the Punch straight up and push down through the card for each of your choices. Vote all pages as instructed. Use the punch provided. Do not use pen or pencil. STEP 4 After voting, slide the card out of the Vote Recorder and place it under the flap in the write-in envelope. NOTE: DO NOTwle a spoiled or defaced ballot. Identification marks or a spoiled or defaced ballot will render it invalid. In the event you make a mistake, or you have a spoiled or defaced ballot, return such ballot to the Judge who will cancel it and issue a new ballot to you. 4 . M) candidate's name printed on it. When voting a write-in candidate do not punch a hole in the punch card ballot for the respective position. VOTING FOR CANDIDATES ON ONE TICKET If you wish to cast a "straight party" vote for all the candidates of one party, punch the position indicated next to the desired party. If you have voted "straight party" you have voted for each candidate of that party. VOTING FOR CANDIDATES ON TWO OR MORE TICKETS If you desire to vote for candidates on two or more tickets, you may accomplish this by simply punching the ballot next to the desired candidate's name as indicated on the ballot. If you have voted straight party and change your mind and desire to vote for a candidate of another party, it is permissible to do that by simply punching the ballot next to the desired candidate's name. VOTING INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM QUESTIONS Voters may also vote on initiatives, referendums, or constitutional constitu-tional amendments submitted to the vote of the people. To do so punch a hole in the ballot where the desired response is indicated. VOTING NON-PARTISAN CANDIDATES Judicial, state school, local school, etc. are non-partisan contests and are located on the last pages of your ballot. The vote recorder copy contains instructions as to how many persons can be selected for that particular office. HOW TO OBTAIN ASSISTANCE IN MARKING BALLOT Any voter who declares under oath to the Judges of Election that he cannot read or write the English language, or that he is physically unable to prepare his ballot without assistance, or that he is physically unable to enter the polling place, being at the entrance thereto, shall upon his request receive the assistance of any two Election Judges who are of different political parties. Any voter who does not understand the English language is entitled to have two interpreters each from a different political party to assist him. Any voter who is blind or has defective vision so that he cannot read his ballot or mark it correctly, may select any qualified elector to assist him. STEP 5 After you have voted the ballot and placed it under the flap of the write-in ballot envelope, RETURN IT TO THE ELECTION JUDGE. Give your name and the Judge will remove the stub. Deposit the write-in ballot envelope (containing the ballot card) in the ballot box. You have now completed the voting procedure. WRITE IN VOTING For the November election, you may vote for a valid write-in candidate. This is done by either writing the office title and the name of the candidate on the write-in ballot envelope or by placing a sticker on the write-in envelope that has the office and |