Lawlor's Contested Election

Citations

• 180 Pa. 566
• 40 W.N.C. 221
• 37 A. 92
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 962

Syllabus

<p>Election law — Ballot—Pasters attached to official ballot.</p> <p>A ballot cannot be counted for a candidate where the candidate’s name and title of office had not been printed upon the official ballot, but upon separate tickets or stickers which had been inserted and pasted upon the official ballot by the persons who voted for him.</p> <p>It is the duty of those specially charged with the preparation and distribution of the official ballot to see that the name or title of every office to be filled at a forthcoming election is distinctly designated thereon, as the election law specifically requires.</p> <p>The only prescribed mode of voting for persons whose names are not already on the ballot is by inserting their names in the blank spaces prepared therefor in the right hand column of the official ballot. It is the name only that is to be thus inserted, not the title of the office to be filled. The latter is already printed there, and constitutes part of the ballot prepared for the use of the voter.</p>