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HomeMy WebLinkAboutA001 - proof of publication, August 20, 1966 Proof of Publication in The AMES DAILY TRIBUNE STATE OF IOWA,STORY COUNTY,ss. I,Ai RbCgX , W. T. Farley on oath depose and say that I am)VXWkkw, foreman of the AMES DAILY TRIBUNE, a daily newspaper, printed at Ames, Story County, Iowa; that the annexed printed -_____-___-- Ordinance_ 2156 -------------------------------------------- was published in said newspaper for consecutive weeks, the first and the last of said publication was on the -----2-Q-'Lh- day of ---~ugus-t--------- ls_66- T /�-�� Sworn to before me and subscrib in my presence by}ffgjjk X T. Farley this ----2ar-d-_ day of ---AU21 U.S_1✓----- V--,-rotary Public in and for Story County. Fees, 1 --- shall collaborate in preparing, Live. Upon receipt of any valid however, that failure to vote at Lain an equal number of mobile by automatic data processing; removal notice, but not later least once in four calendar deputy registrars from each list. accurate, current and meaning- than ten (10) days before any years wherein elections are held The commissioner shall pro- ful information on the registra- election, the commissioner of shall operate as a challenge and vide all mobile deputy regis- tion of voters. The Commis- registration shall make entry shall require the applicant to trars with uniform identifica- sioner shall make this informa- of any change on the original reregister. In case a qualified tion badges. No mobile regis- tion available to public inspec- and duplicate registrations lists voter is unable to write his trar shall register any voter un- tion during normal office hours and the voter shall be qualified name, he shall be required to less he is wearing this identifi- in his office, and he shall fur- to vote in the new election pre- make a cross, which shall be cation badge. nish to the Story County Chair- cinct. Any voter who changes certified by the signing of the Section 15. Schools for De- man of any political party, as his residence within ten (10) name of the applicant by the Duty Registrars. Before August defined in Chapter 43.2 of the days preceding an election shall clerk of registration taking the 1 preceding any general election 1962 Code of Iowa, as amended, be entitled to vote in the pre- application. A qualified voter the commissioner of registra- the following reports as here- cinct where he is registered. who is unable to sign his name tion shall hold at least one inafter provided: Section 9. Election Register. shall not be permitted to mail training session for mobile de- (a) Alphabetical Reports. A The commissioner shall corn- or hand in removal notices as puty registrars. Before October report listing all registered vot- Pile and shall deliver to the is in this ordinance provided, 1 preceding any general election ers alphabetically shall be pub- judges of election in each pre- but must appear in person to the commissioner of registra- lished no later than June 30 of cinct the duplicate registration secure a removal of his name tion shall hold at least one each year, with supplemental list of the voters in that pre- to his new voting precinct. training session for the deputy lists of any changes or newly tint, which shall be known as Section 13. Permanent and registrars who will serve at registered v o t e r s published the election register. Such regis- Branch Registration Places. The branch registration places. No weekly from July 1 to Septem- ter shall contain the name and commissioner of registration person shall qualify as either ber 15, and daily thereafter ex- address of every registered vot- shall establish a permanent a mobile or branch deputy re- cept Saturdays and Sundays er in that election precinct, in- registration place in the office gistrar unless he attends at during the calendar months pre- dexed by street and house num- of the city clerk or elsewhere least one such training session ceeding any general election ber, or alphabetically by sur- in the city hall. The permanent during the year in which he until registrations are closed name, together with a space fol- registration place shall be open is to serve, or is otherwise de- for that election. Each of these lowing each name in which at all times as are other city termined by the commissioner reports shall be furnished to shall be recorded the words offices and at such other times to be qualified. said political party chairmen "voted"or "not voted",the date, as the branch registration plat- Section 16. Compensation. De- without charge or need of prior and if a primary, the party, as es are open as provided in this puty registrars, excepting mo- request. the case may be; also a space section. If petitioned by one or bile deputy registrars, and (b) Geographical or Other Re- for remarks in which shall be both of the official county clerks shall receive $1.00 per ports. Reports listing all regis- recorded any challenges, affi- chairmen of the two political hour. tered voters by street and con- davit or other information as parties polling the highest vote Section 17. Disabled or Ab- secutive residence n u m b e r s may be required. The entry of in the jurisdiction at the last sent Voters. Any person entit- within each precinct, or any the words "voted" or "not preceding general election, the led to register who is perman- other such specific information- voted", challenge, affidavit, or commissioner of registration ently disabled by sickness or al reports, shall be furnished to other information, shall be made shall establish at least two o-therwise, or who will be absent said political party chairmen in by the judges of election im- branch registration places in from the election precinct until response to a request for same. mediately after approving the his jurisdiction, taking into con- after the next succeeding elec- A fee to cover the estimated certificate of registration. Dup- sideration the convenience of tion, may up to and including cost of any additional reports licate registration lists may be the voters. If petitioned by,.one the tenth day next preceding LEGAL NOTICE shall be paid to the City of Prepared by electrical, meth- or both of the official county an election, apply in writing to ORDINANCE NO. 2156 Ames at the time of such re- a.nical or similar data process. chairmen of the two political the commissioner of registra. AN ORDINANCE CONFORM- quest. Section 10. Correction of parties polling the highest vote tion who shall thereupon for- ING CHAPTER 13 OF THE Section 7. Form of Records. List. For the purposes of pre- in the jurisdiction at the last ward to such voter duplicate MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE For the purpose of expediting venting fraudulent voting and preceding general election, the registration cards which shall CITY OF AMES, IOWA, TO the work of the commissioner for eliminating excess names, commissioner shall provide for be executed by the voter before THE PROVISIONS OF CHAP- of registration, for uniformity, following the close of registra- additional branch registration a notary public and returned TER 48 OF THE CODE, 1962, and for preparation of abstracts tion or at any other time as may places for each ten thousand in- to the commissioner of registra- AS AMENDED; DESIGNAT- and other forms in use by the be deemed necessary, the com- habitants in the jurisdiction in tion. If such registration cards 1NG THE CITY CLERK AS election boards, the registra- missioner of registration may excess of thirty thousand and are properly executed and show COMMISSIONER OF REGIS- tion records shall be in sub- send by mail to any voter whose for such additional branch re- that the voter is duly qualified, TRATION AND PROVIDING stantially the following form: name appears on the original gistration places as the com- then such cards shall be placed HIS DUTIES; PROVIDING Suitable card index devices registration list, a notice bear- missioner deems necessary. Any in the registration lists. FOR RECORDS RELATING shall be provided. There shall ing a statement substantially as petition mentioned in this sec-' Section 18. Election Regis- TO REGISTRATION; PROVID- also be provided suitable index follows: tion must be received by the ters. The commissioner of regis- ING THE PROCEDURE FOR cards of sufficient facial area "You are hereby notified commissioner not later than; tration shall have nine full REGISTRATION AND THE to contain in plain writing and that your name and address August 15 preceding any generali, days between the last day of STAFFING THEREOF; RE- figures the data required there- appear on the original regis- election. The commissioner registration and election day to PEALING' -CHAPTER . 13 OF on. The following information tration lists as shown on the shall designate the location of,, perfect his election registers THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF concerning each applicant for opposite side of this card. If the branch registration places and, for that purpose, nine days THE CITY OF AMES, IOWA, registry shall be printed or there is any mistake in the not later than September 1 fold before any election day shall AS HITHERTO EXISTING typed on the card: above name and address, pre- lowing the receipt of a peti- be days upon which voters may AND ALL OTHER ORDINAN- 1. Ward. sent this card at the office tion. All branch registration not register. During these nine CES AND PARTS OF ORDIN- 2. Election precinct. of the commissioner of regis- places shall be opened the first days the commissioner shall ANCES IN CONFLICT HERE- 3. If a man: tration, City Clerk's office, Monday in October preceding complete the election registers WITH• AND PROVIDING A (a) The name of the appli- City Hall, for correction on or any general election and shall and, on the day before election PENALTY FOR THE VIOLA- cant, giving surname before , 1966. remain open Monday through day, he shall deliver them as TION OF THE PROVISIONS and Christian names The return of this card by the Friday from noon until 8:00 required by law to each election HEREOF. in full, post office to the Commission- P.M. and Saturday from 8:00 precinct. IT IS ORDAINED BY THE (b) Residence, giving name er of registration will be ac- A.M. to 5:00 P.M. for one week. Section 19. Revision of Lists. CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY and number of the cepted evidence on which to The commissioner of registrar At the close of each calendar OF AMES, IOWA: street, avenue, or oth- challenge your vote on election tion shall appoint two persons year, clerks of registration shall Section 1. Purpose. The pur- er location of the day to act as deputy registrars iri check up the original registra- pose of this ordinance is to re- 'dwelling, and such ad- each branch registration place. tion list for the purpose of quire registration of voters un- ditional clear and deft- Commissioner of Registration" Such appointments shall be eliminating excess names and, der the permanent registration nite description as may Upon the return by the post made from lists supplied for to that end, they shall examine plan, in accordance with the be necessary to give office of any such notice, the that purpose by the official the election registers and when- provisions of Chapter 48, Code the exact residence of commissioner of registration county chairmen of.the two po- ever it appears that a registered of Iowa, 1962, as amended, in the applicant. shall, and at other times may, litical parties polling the high- voter has not voted at least order to ascertain the qualifiea- (c) Date of birth. direct an authorized clerk to est vote in the jurisdiction at once in four calendar years tions of each voter and promote (d) Term of residence in check up, in person, the name the last preceding general elec- wherein eleetions are held, his efficient conduct of elections. the United States; in and address of any voter, and tion. Such lists shall be provid- card shall be taken from the Section 2. Commissioner Re- the State; in the Coun- if said voter is found to have ed not later than August fifteen original and duplicate registra- preceding the appointments. tion lists and placed in a trans- The commissioner shall appoint fer file and a gistration. For the purpose of ty; in the Precinct. removed from the address as administering the provisions of (e) Nativity. recorded on the original regis- printed postal this ordinance and the laws of (f) Citizenship. (If natur- tration list, the commissioner of one deputy from each list for card notice of that fact with the the State of Iowa relative there- alized give date and registration shall cause to be each branch.Such appointments information that his vote has to, the office of commissioner papers of court; also entered on the election register shall be made not later than been challenged, and that the of registration is hereby treat- date of naturalization of the proper precinct, in the September fifteen following the voter must reregister to remove ed and the City Clerk of the of parents.) proper space opposite the said receipt of the lists. Where the such challenge, shall be sent City of Antes, Iowa, is hereby (g) Date of application for voter's name, the word "chal- county chairmen fail to provide to the last known address of constituted such commissioner registration. lenged". No one so challenged lists by the date specified in said voter. When removal no- of registration. (h) Signature of voter. shall be permitted to vote ex- this section, the commissioner tices are received by the clerks, Section 3. Definitions. For the (The applicant after cept by complying with all the shall make such appointments they shall examine the signa- to persons known to be regis- tures and compare them with purpose of this ordinance, the registration shall be provisions applicable to the tared as members of the approp- the original and, if they are not word "elections" means gener- required to sign his proving of challenges. The com- similar, aand, i card notice al, municipal, special, school or name on both the orig- missioner shall make"a positive riate political party. postal specifying a refusal to transfer primary elections, and includes inal Iand duplicate re- effort to maintain the registra Section 14. Mobile Deputy for that cause, shall be sent to state, county and municipal gistration lists.) Ex- tion lists as accurately as pos- Registrars. The commissioner cept that the signature Bible so as to reflect the actual of registration shall appoint at the applicant at the new ad-I �I elections. dress given. The commissioner'I Section 4. Registration Re- shall be required only qualified registered voters in least six persons for each ten of registration shall make, on, quired.From and after the adop- on the original regis- the city. thousand inhabitants or major August first (1st) of-each year, tion of this ordinance, no voter tration list where the Section 11. Deceased Persons- fraction thereof, within his jur- a report to the Secretary of otherwise qualified shall be per- duplicate registration Record. Every fifteen days, or isdiction as mobile deputy regis- State showing the number of j mitted to vote at any election list is prepared by at any more frequent times, the trars. An equal number of these registered voters by party af-i unless such voter shall register electrical, mechanical Director of Finance shall report appointees shall be appointed as provided by this ordinance. or similar data pro- to the commissioner of regis- from lists supplied for that pur- filiation for his jurisdiction. Section 5. Commissioner of cess. tration the names and addres- ose from the county chairmen Section 20. Challenges. Any Registration-Duties. The com- 4. If a woman: ses of all persons over twenty- of the two political parties pot- person may challenge a regis-' missioner of registration shall (a) The information re- one years of age who have died ling the highest vote in the jur- tration at any time by filing have complete charge of the quested shall be the within the city. The commis- isdiction in the last preceding a written challenge with the registration of all qualified vot- same as for the males, sioner of registration shall,upon general election. Where the commisisoner of registration. ers within this City. He shall with such additional receipt of such report, examine county chairmen fail to provide Person so challenging shall ap- appoint such deputies and information as may be the original list of registrations lists by the date specified in pear before the commissioner clerks as may be necessary necessary to determine and duplicate registration list this section, the commissioner of registration thereafter to from the two political parties the qualifications of and shall remove therefrom, to shall make such appointments prove their challenge, and the receiving the highest vote at the applicant for re- an inactive file, the registration to persons known to be regis- person so challenged shall have the last general election. The gistration. Provided, cards of all registered persons tered as members of the appro- notice of the challenge. The number of such deputies and that, after such origin- certified by the Director of Fin- priate political party. Mobile commissioner shall decide the clerks for all registration plat- al registration, when- ante as deceased. deputy registrars are authorized right to the entry under the es shall be equally divided be- ever any change of Section 12. Time and Method to secure registration of eligible evidence. Either party may ap- tween the members of the said name shall occur, due of Registration. The Commis- voters anywhere in the juris- pear to the District Court of two political parties. These ap- to marriage or divorce, sioner of Registration, or a diction. New registrations must the county in which the chal- pointments shall be subject to such applicant shall duly authorized clerk acting for be turned in daily to the per- lenge is made, and a date for the approval of the City Coun- not be allowed to vote him, shall, up to and including manent registration place. Re- the hearing shall be fixed and I cil. The commissioner shall pro- until she has rereegis- the tenth' day next preceeding gistrations may be turned in the decision of the court shall vide such printed forms and tered; and after such any election, receive the appli- directly by the mobile deputy bV, final. blanks as may be necessary, to- reregistration, the pre- cation for registration of all registrars or they may be Section 21. Penalties. Any gather with such other supplies vious registration card such qualified voters as shall turned in through the county officer or employee who shall as are necessary, to properly shall be removed from personally appear for re gistra- chairmen of the two political willfully fail to perform or en- carry out the provisions of this the files. tion at the office of the com- parties. The commissioner shall force any of the provisions of, ordinance. 5. Party affiliation; (No par- mis ioner or at any other place provide standard forms to be this ordinance, or who shall un-;' Section 6. Registration Lists. ty, if preferred.) as is designated by him for re- uesd by the mobile deputy re- lawfully or fraudulently re- The Commissioner of Registra- Section 8. Removal Notices. gistration, who then are or on gistrars for registering new move any registration card or tion shall provide for an original Removal notices shall be pro- the date of election next follow- voters. A supply of these forms record from its proper compart- list of qualified voters, indexed vided for the use of any regis- ing the day of making such ap- shall be given to each mobile ment in the registration records, alphabetically, which shall be tered voter moving to a new plication will be entitled to vote. deputy registrar and to the or who shall willfully destroy kept at the office of the com- location. Removal notices shall Any qualified voter who applies county chairmen of the two po- any record provided by this or- missioner of registration, in a provide space for the previous for registration shall subscribe litical parties polling the high- dinance, or any person who place and in such manner as address of the voter,the address to the following oath or affi- est vote in the jurisdiction in shall willfully or fraudulently to be properly safeguarded. of the exact location to which davit: the last preceding general elec- register more than once, or re Such list shall be known as the he is moving, and his signature. "You do solemnly swear or tion. Mobile deputy registrars gister under any but his true "original registration list" and Any written notification from affirm that you will fully and shall be appointed before the name, or votes or attempts to shall not be removed from the the voter containing the re- truly answer such questions first of August preceding any vote by impersonating another commissioner's office except quired information and sign- as shall be put to you, touch- general election and the ap- who is registered, or who will- upon order of the court. A se- ture shall be sufficient to vali- ing your qualifications as a pointments shall expire when fully or fraudulently registers cond list, to be known as the date his registration. If the voter, under the laws of this registration closes for that elec- in any election precinct where "duplicate registration 1 i s t" commissioner of registration re- state?" tion. Mobile deputy registrars he is not a resident at the time shall be prepared by the com- ceives written notice of remov- Upon being sworn, the appli- shall serve without pay from of registering, or who adds a missioner from the original re- al from any registered voter, cant shall answer such ques- the municipality. If at any time name or names to a page or gistration list. Such duplicate and the notification does not tions as are required, as here- a mobile deputy registrar re- pages, or who violates any of registration list shall be open contain the required informs- inbefore set forth, and the clerk signs or dies, Or the position the provisions of this ordinance, to public inspection at all rea- tion, the commissioner shall im- shall fill out the form which the becomes vacant for any other shall be guilty of misdemeanor sonable times. mediately mail to the voter at applicant shall sign, and he reason, the commissioner shall and upon conviction, shall be The Commissioner of Regis- his last known address notice shall not be required to register appoint a replacement from the punished by a fine of not more I tration and the City Manager that his registration ie defec- again for any election; provided, appropriate list in order to re- than o n e hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisoned for not CERTIFICATE OF by a judge or clerk of the elec- more than thirty (30) days. REGISTERED VOTER tion if the person signing the Section 26. T h is ordinance Section 22. Qualification of I hereby certify that I a n certificate of registration and shall be in full force and effect Officers. Before enteringupon a qualified voter duly re s- the y after its passage and publication p y g person on the registr list his duties, each officer or clerk tered under the permanent appear to be the same. The vot- as provided by law. in whatever capacity shall sub- registration act of 1927 in t e er shall present this certificate Passed this 1.6th day of Aug- scribe to an oath in such form precinct, ward, to the judge in charge of the ust, 1966. as provided by the attorney for City of Ames,County of Stor ballots or voting machine as D. R. Newbrough, the city. Iowa. proof of his right to vote. After Mayor Section 23. Expenses. The Party affiliation (if prima y voting the voter shall present Louise Whitcome, cost of material, equipment, election) his certificate of registration to City Clerk labor, for the maintenance of — the judge or clerk in charge of Published in the Ames Daily the permanent registration sys- Signature of voter — the register of election, who Tribune, August 20, 1966. tern shall be shared equally by Address shall make entry as provided in the county and the city, and Approved: Section 9 of this ordinance. The the city council of this city certificates shall be arranged in shall allocate from the general Judge or clerk of electi:n alphabetical order after the fund of the city sufficient funds, The certificate of registrati ;n close of the election, placed in based upon the estimate pre- shall be approved by a judge -r envelopes provided for that pur- pared by the commissioner of clerk of election if the sign 3,- pose, and returned to the City registration and subject to the ture of the voter on the cert; i- Clerk as commissioner of regis- approval of the city council. Cate of registraiton and i'ie tration. Section 24. Certificate of Re- signature on the registry 113t Section 25. All ordinances or gistration. Before any person appear to be the same.Howev'r, parts of ordinances in conflict offering to vote receives the in cities using duplicate reg s_ herewith are repealed. ballots from the judge or is tration lists prepared by el,c- permitted to enter the voting Itrical, mechanical or similar machine, a certificate contain- data process the certificate at ing the following information registration shall be approved shall be signed by 'the appli- cant: