Election Laws of Texas Author:Texas Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: their own ballot after the style of the official ballot described in this title. [Id. sec. 47.] SUPPLIES, ARRANGEMENTS, AND EXPENSES OP ELECTION. Article 2... more »976. Booths, Voting, Required In Cities Of 10,000 And Over.—Voting booths shall be furnished and used at elections at each voting precinct in towns or cities of ten thousand inhabitants or more. [Acts 1905, 1 S. S., p. 529, sec. 37.] Art. 2977. Booths, Voting, And Guard Kails.—There shall be one voting booth or place for every seventy citizens who, at the last general election paid their poll tax or obtained certificates of exemption from its payment, and who reside in the voting precinct; provided, the judges of the election may provide as many more booths and places as they shall deem necessary. Each polling place, whether provided with voting booths or not, shall be provided with a guard rail, so constructed and placed that only such persons as are inside of such guard rail can approach the ballot boxes or compartments, places or booths at which the voters are to prepare their votes, and that no person outside of the guard rail can approach nearer than six feet of the place where the voter prepares his ballot. The arrangement shall be such that neither the ballot boxes nor the voting booths nor the voters while preparing their ballots shall be hidden from view of those outside the guard rail, or from the judges, and yet the same shall be far enough removed and so arranged that the voter may conveniently prepare his ballot for voting in secrecy. There shall be provided in each voting place voting booths where voting booths are required, with three sides closed and the front side open. Each booth shall be twenty-two inches wide on the inside, thirty-two inches deep and six feet four inches high, and shall contain a she...« less