SECTION 84. Sample ballots and instruction cards. 85. Number of official ballots for each polling place. 86. Designation of officers to provide ballots and instruction cards. 87. Distribution of ballots and instruction cards to polling places. 88. Correction of errors and omissions in ballots. 89. Official distribution to polling places of substitutes for missing official ballots. § 80. Elections for which official ballots shall be provided.- Official ballots shall be provided at public expense at each polling place for every election at which public officers are to be elected directly by the people, except an election of school district officers or school officers of a city or village at which no other public officer is to be elected. R. S., 417, L. 1842, ch. 130, tit. 4, art. 2, § 7. L. 1890, ch. 262, § 1. § 81. Form of official ballots for candidates for office.Each official ballot for candidates for public office shall be six inches wide; shall have a perforated line running across it, parallel with and one inch distant from the top thereof; and shall be of such length that below such perforated line there shall be one-fourth of an inch in the length of the ballot for the name of each office and the same space for the name of each candidate to be printed thereon. The space above the perforated line shall be known as the stub. The stubs of such ballots of each kind, for each election district, shall be numbered consecutively, by printed numbers on the backs thereof, and nothing else shall be printed on the backs of the stubs. On the face of each stub shall be printed in uniform type the words "official ballots for," and after the word "for" shall follow the designation of the polling place for which the ballot is prepared. On the back of each official ballot below the stub shall be printed in great primer Roman condensed capitals, the indorsement "official ballot for and after the word "for" shall follow the date of the election and a fac simile of the signature of the officer, or clerk of the board providing the ballots, except that ballots containing the names of candidates for commissioners of excise of towns, shall be indorsed "excise," only, and other ballots for town meetings, not held at the same time with a general election, shall be indorsed “town " only. Each official ballot shall be of such form, and so printed, that when the ballot is properly folded for voting, the whole of the indorsement and the printed number on the back of the stub shall be visible, and so that the stub can be removed without unfolding the ballot, or exposing or removing any portion of the face thereof below the perforated line. All official ballots prepared by the same officer or board for the same election district and the same election, containing the names of the same offices, shall be of precisely the same quality and tint of paper, kind of type and quality and tint of plain black ink, and of uniform length. R. S., 417, L. 1842, ch. 130, tit. 4, Art. 2, § 8. L. 1890, ch. 262, §§ 17, 38. L. 1891, ch. 296, §§ 4, 5, 6. § 82. Names of offices and candidates on official ballots. There shall be as many different kinds of official ballots for candidates for public office at each polling place, at which official ballots are required to be provided as there are different political parties or political or other names represented upon duly filed certificates of nomination of candidates to be voted for thereat. The names of all the offices to be filled thereat shall be printed below the perforated line, upon the face of each such ballot of each kind, in brevier lower case type within the spaces respectively allowed therefor. Under the name of each office thereon, the name of each candidate nominated therefor by or by virtue of the kind of certificates to which such kind of ballot corresponds, shall be printed in brevier capitals, within the spaces respectively allowed therefor. The names on each ballot shall be in a single column except that the names of candidates for presidential electors, and the names of inspectors of election, if ten or more, shall be in two columns. No ballot shall contain the names of more candidates for one office than may be voted for at such election by one voter. If the full number of candidates for the offices specified on any one kind of ballots shall not have been nominated by or in pursuance of the certificates from which such kind of ballots is prepared, blank spaces shall be left on each ballot of such kind where the names of candidates would appear, except for such failure to nominate, The name of a person having a party nomination shall not be placed upon an official ballot of independent nomination, if such person shall have given notice at least fifteen days before the election for which the ballot is prepared, to the officer with whom his party certificate of nomination is filed, by a writing signed and acknowledged by him, that he does not wish his name placed upon any ballot of independent nomination, or upon such particular ballot of independent nomination. The names of offices to be filled and of candidates to be voted for by the voters of a particular district or municipality only, shall not be printed on any other ballots than those prepared for such district or municipality. If two or more officers are to be elected to the same office for different terms, the term for which each is nominated shall be designated on the ballot as a part of the name of the office. If at a general election, in any congressional district, one congressman is to be elected for a full term, and another to fill a vacancy, the ballots containing the names of the two candidates therefor shall designate the congress for which each is nominated. R. S., 417, L. 1842, ch. 130, tit. 4, Art. 2, § 9. L. 1891, ch. 296, § 6. § 83. Form of official ballot for constitutional amendments or other propositions.- Each official ballot upon a proposed constitutional amendment, or other proposition or question, shall comply with the requirements for official ballots for candidates for public office, except that there shall be plainly and clearly printed on the face thereof, below the perforated line, upon each of one kind of such official ballots the proper language for designating a vote for, and upon each of the other kind of such ballots the proper language for designating a vote against such amendment, proposition or question. Each such ballot shall be of the same length, and the only indorsement on the back shall appropriately indicate the proposed amendment or other proposition or question to which the ballot relates, but without any indication on the back of the ballot of whether it is for or against the amendment, proposition or question. L. 1890, ch. 262, § 15. L. 1891, ch. 296, § 5. § 84. Sample ballots and instruction cards.-Twelve sample ballots of each kind shall also be provided for every polling place for which official ballots are required to be provided. Such sample ballots shall be printed on paper of a different color from the official ballots and without numbers on the stubs, but shall not otherwise differ from the official ballots. Twelve instruction cards printed in English, and twelve printed in each of such other languages as the officer or officers charged with providing them shall deem necessary, shall be provided for each such polling place, containing, in clear, large type, full instructions for the guidance of voters in obtaining ballots for voting, in preparing their ballots for deposit in the boxes, in returning their ballots to the ballot clerks, and in obtaining new ballots in place of those returned, and a copy of each of the sections of the penal code relating to crimes against the elective franchise. L. 1890, ch. 262, §§ 18, 30. L. 1891, ch. 296, § 5. § 85. Number of official ballots for each polling place.The number of official ballots of each kind to be provided for each polling place for each election to be held thereat, except a town meeting or a village election held at a different time from a general election, shall be twice the number of the names of voters upon the register of voters of such district for such election at the close of the last meeting for such registry. The number of official ballots of each kind to be provided for each polling place of a town meeting or village election held at a different time from a general election, shall be at least twice the number of persons who will be entitled to vote thereat, as nearly as can be estimated by the officer charged with the duty of providing such ballots. L. 1890 ch. 262, §§ 16, 18. L. 1891, ch. 296, § 4. § 86. Designation of officers to provide ballots and instruction cards. The county clerk of each county except New York shall provide the requisite number of printed official ballots, sample ballots and instruction cards for each polling place in the county, for each election to be held thereat, except town meetings and city and village elections, and elections of school officers not held at the same time as a general election, and except that the county clerk of the county of Kings shall provide such ballots for only such election districts of such county as are outside the city of Brooklyn. The board of police commissioners of the city of New York, and the board of elections of the city of Brooklyn shall provide the requisite number of such ballots and instruction cards for each polling place, in each such city, respectively, for each election to be held thereat. If a city or village election or a town meeting, for the election of public officers, shall be held upon a different day from a general election, the clerk of such city, village or town, respectively, shall provide the requisite |