19-1615.   Appointment of judges; new precincts.In case in any township there shall be two or more election precincts,and in any of said precincts there shall not reside any authorized judge ofelection, the township trustee of the township shall appoint threejudges of election to make such registration. In case in any votingprecinct there shall not be a full board of authorized judges ofelection, the authorized judges of election residing in such votingprecinct shall appoint judges from the voters of such precinct to fillsuch vacancy; and in case a new voting precinct shall be formed by thedivision or organization of a new township, or otherwise, the judges ofthe election in the new voting precinct thus formed may make theirregistry of the electors on the day prescribed by this act, in suchmanner as a majority of them may direct, and for that purpose may make alist, or cause to be made a certified copy of the duplicate poll booksof the township in which such new voting precinct is situated, or out ofwhich it may have been created, or they may dispense with such list orlists, and proceed to make a register of electors from the best means attheir command. Said lists shall only embrace the names of such personsas are known to them to be qualified electors of their voting precinct,and shall be posted up, copies thereof made, and the original filed asprescribed in the preceding section, and shall be corrected in the samemanner that other lists are corrected.

      History:   L. 1881, ch. 89, § 3; March 4; R.S. 1923, 19-1615.