Have you been convicted of felony?....

If so; have you been pardoned and restored to all the rights of citizenship?... When?...

By whom?....

Have you made any bet or wager, or are you directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending on the result of the next ensuing election?.

Have you received or offered to receive, or do you expect to receive, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for registering or for giving your vote or refraining from voting at the next election?.

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Have you paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed, offered or promised to contribute, to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing, or made any promise, to influence the giv ing or withholding of any vote at the next ensuing election?....

I, the undersigned, do hereby solemnly swear (or affirm) that the answers to the above questions were given by me and that they are true answers to such questions.

I, the undersigned, an inspector of election of the above desig nated election district, do hereby certify that the within named person did on this day, personally appear before the board of inspectors of this election district and did make application to have his name enrolled upon the register of electors of this said election district; that he was challenged and was sworn by me and did make the answers set opposite the printed questions upon this affidavit and signed the same in my presence..

Dated this........day of October, 190.. .. Residence

Name...

Inspector of election

(To be signed by the inspector administering oath to applicant.)

Any person who applies personally to any board of inspectors for registration for any election may be challenged by any qualified elector, present. If such applicant be so challenged, or if any member of the board of inspectors shall have reason to suspect that such applicant is not entitled to have his name enrolled on such register, the chairman of the board of inspectors, or any member of such board is hereby authorized to and shall administer to such applicant the following oath: You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you will true answers make to the questions touching upon qualifications as an elector and such other questions as may be put you tending to establish your identity and one of the inspectors shall thereupon read to such challenged person each and every question printed upon the challenge affidavit herein provided for and shall enter in ink opposite each question the answer thereto given by such applicant. The applicant shall subscribe his name to such challenge affidavit, which shall also be subscribed to by the inspector administering the above oath and as witnesses by the other inspectors present, who shall certify over their names, the fact that the applicant did apply for registration, that he was duly sworn and that the answers set opposite the printed questions are the true answers given to such questions by the challenged applicant. Inspectors shall also enter in the place provided on the challenge affidavit a description of the person challenged and the name and address of the person challenging. If the applicant shall by his answers satisfy a majority of the board of inspectors of his right to be registered, they shall enroll his name as an elector; if not, they shall point out to him the qualifications which he lacks as an elector and his name shall not be enrolled upon such register except as provided by section thirty-one of this act, and upon any such proceeding the challenge affidavit of such applicant shall be submitted in evidence to such court, justice or judge. If the applicant shall refuse to make oath to the questions put to him and the answers given thereto

by him or shall refuse to answer any question upon the challenge affidavit his name shall not be placed upon the register, or if recorded thereon previous to his ascertained disqualification as an elector, the inspectors shall enter in the remark column after such name the word disqualified and no person shall be allowed to vote on such name at the election. Any applicant for registration, inspector or other person who shall incorporate or cause to be incorporated any false statement in such challenge affidavit shall be deemed guilty of perjury. At the close of each day of registration the inspectors of election shall detach from the stubs the challenge affidavits signed by the persons challenged during the day and in cities shall deliver them to the police captain of the precinct in which the election district is located or to an officer thereof, and such police captain or commanding officer of such precinct shall immediately cause an investigation of the truth of such affidavit to be made, and if such investigation shall prove the same to be false in any particular affecting the right of the challenged person to register or vote, the said officer shall deliver the same to the district attorney of the county, together with the evidence of the falsity of such affidavit, and the district attorney shall forthwith present the same to the grand jury of such county. In election districts outside of cities such affidavit shall be delivered by the inspectors to the sheriff of the county who shall proceed in like manner, provided, however, that in the election districts within the metropolitan elections district all such challenge affidavits shall be delivered by the police or sheriff forthwith at the close of each day of registration to the state superintendent of elections for the metropolitan elections district, who shall proceed in like manner. When the name of a person who has signed a challenge affidavit, shall be enrolled on the register, the inspectors shall enter in the column headed remarks on such register opposite such name the word affidavit, giving the consecutive number printed on such affidavit. At the close of the last day of registration the inspectors shall file the book of stubs and unused challenge affidavits with the officer from whom it was received by the inspectors and such officer shall preserve it in his office. The secretary of state shall also furnish for each election district within the metropolitan elections district a duplicate book of challenge affidavits but without the stubs; each of which affidavits shall be printed with the words official copy of above the words challenge affidavit printed thereon, and there

shall be printed upon the outside cover of each such book the words copy book of challenge affidavits, together with proper instructions to the inspectors of election regarding the same as herein provided. Such duplicate books of challenge affidavits shall be delivered to the boards of inspectors of election within the metropolitan elections district at the same time and in the same manner as the original book of challenge affidavits. The inspectors of election, or one of them designated by the chairman of the board, of the election districts within the metropolitan elections district shall, at the time of filling out and signing of any challenge affidavit as heretofore provided, make a duplicate of such challenge affidavit, upon the copy of the challenge affidavit numbered to correspond with the original challenge affidavit. The duplicate book of challenge affidavits shall be in the custody of the chairman of the board of inspectors until the close of the polls of the election for which the registration is made, when it shall be filed together with the book of unused original challenge affidavits and stubs in the office of the board or officer delivering the same to the board of inspectors. Except as hereinafter provided any person who shall wilfully suppress, alter, destroy or mutilate any signed challenge affidavit or official copy thereof shall be deemed guilty of a felony. The officer or board with whom the original challenge affidavit or copies thereof are filed may destroy the same six months after the date of the election for which they were made, except those which are to be used in any criminal prosecution. (Thus amended by chap.

544, Laws of 1901.)

Subdivision 7. Record of challenges. If, at a meeting of the board of inspectors for registration, any elector shall, upon oath, declare that he has reason to believe that any person on the register of electors will not be qualified to vote at the election for which the registration is made, the board of inspectors shall place the words "to be challenged" opposite the name of such person, and when such person shall offer his vote at such election, the general oath as to qualification shall be administered to him, and if he shall refuse to take such oath he shall not be permitted to vote.

Subdivision 8. Production of naturalization papers.It shall be the duty of every naturalized citizen before being reg istered to produce to the inspectors, if any inspector shall require,

his naturalization papers or a certified copy thereof for their inspection, and to make oath before them that he is the person purporting to have been naturalized by the papers so produced, unless such citizen was naturalized previous to the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. If however such naturalized citizen can not for any reason produce his naturalization papers, or a certified copy thereof, the board of inspectors, or a majority of such board may place the name of such naturalized citizen upon the register of electors upon his furnishing to such board evidence which shall satisfy such board of his right to be registered. (Thus amended by chap. 675, Laws of 1905.)

Subdivision 9. Any person knowingly taking a false oath before the board of inspectors, shall upon conviction thereof be punished as for willful and corrupt perjury.

Subdivision 10. Persons excluded from the right of suffrage.-No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, or pay, offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or any other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an election, or for registering or refraining from registering as an elector, or who shall make any promise to influence the giving or withholding any such vote or registration, or who shall make or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of an election, shall vote at such election. No person who has been convicted of a felony shall have the right to register for or vote at any election unless he shall have been pardoned and restored to the rights of citizenship. (Added by chap. 654, Laws of 1901.)

Subdivision 11. When a town or village election is held at the same time with a general election all electors in such town or village to be entitled to vote at such town or village election must be registered as provided by law for the enrollment of electors for any general election in such town or village. (Added by chap. 405, Laws of 1902.)

§ 35. Subdivision 1. Certification and custody of register. At the close of each meeting for the registration of electors, for a general or other election in a city, or in an election