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No.505,341@V Patented sept.19,1s93.

WI T NESS ES j/f/ ATTORNEY.

` 'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK W. BARRETT, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE BARRETT PUBLISHING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,304, dated September V19, 1893.

Application iiletl October 20, 1892- Serial No. 449,424. (No specimens.)

as well as those belonging to a large number of parties, and for tallying the votes cast for such candidates, by straight ballots and by scratched ballots, and also those cast for scattering candidates, the peculiarities of arrangement and the advantages of said 4improvements, being fully and particularly described hereinafter and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings on which like reference letters indicate corresponding parts: Figure l, represents one side of a tally sheet suitably ruled and printed to illustrate my improvements; Fig. 2, another side of the same or a different sheet for further illustration; and Fig. 3, a book form of said tally sheet.

The letter A designates a sheet or sheets for tallying, suitably ruled at one portion B, for tallying the straight ballots for the respective parties in an election. In another adjacent portion C, preferably on the same sheet and on the same page, space is allotted for tallying scratched ballots of the regular party candidates. In another portion D, Fig. 2, the votes for the scattering candidates are tallied. In the portion designated by B for tallying the straight ballots, the tally squares are arranged opposite the respective party names in the column at the left, and the straight votes marked in said tally spaces in the usual manner; the total votes by straight ballots being marked in the column at the right, designated Votes on straight ballots. In the portion designated C, Fig. l, the tally spaces are divided by columns for the regular party tickets respectively, or as in the illustration, Fig. l, Republican, Democratic, Prohibition and Peoples party. Atthe left of this portion or division is a column designated Offices to lill, in Which the title of the oftice is marked, such column serving for all the four parties adjacent thereto. For instance, the office of governor hasa Republican candidate, Richard Roe,77 and a Democratic candidate therefor, John Doe. The straight ballots for the Republican .candidates are `marked in the portion B, but any scratched ballots areeach marked in the portion or ldivision C, according to `the respective canshown in the division C, his total vote will be marked opposite his name in the column E,

namely, three hundred and fifty, thus showing, at a glance, his total vote. Similarly the straight ballots for a Democratic candidate, namely, two hundred, as shown in division B, will be added to the votes received on scratched ballots, namely, forty in division C, making the total for the Democratic candidate for governor John Doe, to show two hundred and forty opposite his name in the column E', the other regular party candidates will be tallied inthe same way, and the candidates for the'successive offices on the tickets will be likewiseI tallied in the division C, Fig. l. Each candidates vote will thus be shown at a glance. In nearly every election,however, there are more or less names belonging to no particular party and not regularly named and each must b'e tallied; for this purpose I provide a portion or division D of the tally sheets designated Scattering candidates. This portion has similar tally spaces and columns for the candidates names, together With a column, Offices to till, common to all such spaces. For instance, Paul Jones receives thirty votes, and not being one of the regular party candidates is tallied in the division D, as shown in Fig. 2, opposite the office he is Voted for, and his total votes marked opposite his name in the column e. At the bottomof this division D, or any other convenient place, is located the certificate F of the judges and clerks of the election, as shown by Fig. 2,. At one end of the sheet is the space for the place and date 4ot' election as shown at G, Fig. 1.

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The remainder ofthe page allotted to scattering candidates affords a place I-l, whereon may be printed the title of the tally sheet or any directions, or other matter, suitable for the instruction or information of the users of the same. The sheet may be folded in any convenient manner for filing, the spaces allotted to the respective party candidates in the division C, Fig. l, indicating a convenient line of folding, as at a, in said ligure. Thus it will be seen that the straight ballots are tallied horizontally at the top and substantially the whole length of the sheet, and the total per party marked at the right, as indicated; also that the scratched ballots for each party are allotted to a separate adjacent portion of the sheet, where each individual candidates total vote is marked opposite his name, such `total footing being the sum of the votes by straight ballots and those by scratched ballots; furthermore that the irregular or scattering candidates are allotted a separate division or portion of the tally sheet, adjacent or opposite the regular candidates, whereby the tallying of such scattering votes may be correctly recorded without liability to confusion with the regular candidates, and yet convenient thereto, as on the same sheet; and finally that the whole number of candidates and the ballots therefor, of whatever party or character of vote, is certified to as hereinbefore described and illustrated.

Referring to Fig. 3, I have shown a still more condensed arrangement, the tally sheet being in book form. The portion devoted to straight ballots is arranged across the top of the main sheet, and a part of the division for scratched ballots is arranged below, on the main sheet, as in Fig. l, but only spacements for two parties are provided on the main sheet for use in connection with the column headed Offices to Iill; while the additional spacements for the remaining parties are upon an auxiliary sheet A stitched or otherwise secured, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to be used with the same column headed Offices to fill, on the main sheet. Thus if the number of parties is large, one or more of these auxiliary sheets A can be applied to the main sheet and used therewith. The certificate F, in the form shown in Fig. 3, is conveniently placed at the right of the main sheet, and balances the Offices to fill at the left, so that the main lsheet may be folded at a conveniently.

The term tally sheet is used to designate one or more sheets used for tallying purposes, whether 4it be in a single sheet, as in Fig. l, or in a condensed form with main and auxiliary sheets, as in Fig. 3.

Having thus fully described my invention,`

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A tally sheet, having a portion or divis-` ing of spacements or divisions in succession across the sheet each spacernent or division devoted to a single party, and consisting of a candidate column, tallying spaces, a total column for said spaces and a column for the sum of the straight and scratched ballots for each candidate, and a common column devoted to the offices on the tickets of the respective parties.

2. A tallying sheet, having a division or portion for tallying the straight ballots of the respective parties arranged across the head of the sheet; a series of spacements having candidate columns, tally spaces and total columns for the respective parties, and a common column for designating offices for all of said parties, arranged below said head portion, and devoted to scratched ballots, whereby the straight ballots are tallied in the first division or portion, B and the scratched ballots in the second portion C of the tally sheet opposite their respective party candidates, and the total for each candidates name, is also shown opposite thereto.

3. A tally sheet, having a portion B of the sheet devoted to straight ballots of the respective parties, and consisting of tallying spaces, a total column, and a party column; and a space C devoted to scratched ballots, and consisting of a set-of candidate columns, tallying spaces, total columns for said spaces,

and total columns for the sum of lthe straight and scratched ballots counted for each -designated candidate, all substantially as shown and described.

4. A tally sheet having a division B for tallying straight ballots of the regular parties, and a division or portion C for tallying the scratched ballots of the said parties candidates separately; a portion or division D on the reverse side of the sheet devoted to scattering candidates consisting of a column for the candidates names, tally spaces therefor, total columns, and a common column for the offices voted for; and a portion F devoted to the certificate of said sheet, all substantially as shown and described.

5. In a tally sheet, the combination with a main sheet having a portion B devoted to tallying straight ballots arranged across t'he head of the sheet, and a portion C for tallying scratched ballots consisting of spacements ruled for tallying, and of columns for the candidates, and a column devoted to the names of the offices to be filled, of an auxiliary sheet A ruled to form tallying and candidate columns, and constituting the remainder of the portion or division of the tally sheet devoted t to scratched ballots, and secu red to the main sheet opposite the common office column, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I aiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK BARRETT.

Witnesses:

OLIVER H. MILLER, H. M. PLAIsTED.

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