19-1619.   Copies of register; vote of certain persons not received;challenges.After said lists shall have been fully completed, and within three daysof said second meeting of said board, they shall cause four copies of thesame to be made, each of which shall be certified by them to be a correctlist of legal electors of their voting precinct, one of which shall bewithin said time filed in the office of the township clerk of the townshipin which said precinct is located, and one of which copies shall bedelivered to each of said judges. It shall be the duty of said judges soreceiving such lists to carefully preserve the same for their use onelection day, and to designate one of their number at the opening of thepolls to check the name of every voter voting in such precinct whose nameis on the register. No vote shall be received at any such election, if thename of the person offering to vote be not on said register as corrected,unless the person offering to vote shall furnish to the judges of theelection his affidavit, in writing, stating therein that he is aninhabitant of said precinct, and entitled to vote therein at such election,and prove by the affidavit of a householder and registered voter of theprecinct in which he offers to vote, that he knows such person to be aninhabitant of the precinct, giving the residence of such person within saidprecinct.

      The oath may be administered by any one of the judges of said electionat the poll where the vote shall be offered, or by any other personauthorized to administer oaths; but no person shall be authorized orallowed to receive compensation for administering said oath. Said oathsshall be preserved and filed in the office of the township clerk of thetownship in which such precinct is situated. Any person, whether his nameshall be on said list of voters or not, may be challenged by the judge orany legal elector, and the same oaths shall be put as now are or hereaftermay be prescribed by law.

      History:   L. 1881, ch. 89, § 7; March 4; R.S. 1923, 19-1619.