Throughout the period during which absent voter ballots may be voted in the Clerk's office as provided elsewhere in this article, the Clerk shall provide or maintain in his office one or more booths or compartments, each containing a table, counter or shelf, and furnished with proper supplies for preparing ballots, at or in which voters may conveniently prepare their ballots, so that in the preparation thereof they may be secure from the observation of others. Such booths or compartments shall be so placed within the Clerk's office as to be separate from, but within the clear view of, the entrance area accessible to the public conducting normal business in the Clerk's office. If the compartment to be used for the purpose of voting is a room otherwise used as a portion of the Clerk's office, the entrance to such room shall be within the clear view of the entrance area accessible to the public conducting normal business in the Clerk's office, and no other person, including but not limited to the circuit clerk and ballot commissioners, shall be permitted to pass through the entrance to such voting room during the period in which it is occupied by any one voter while preparing his ballot.
Throughout the period during which absent voter ballots may be voted in the Clerk's office as provided elsewhere in this article, it shall be the duty of the Clerk to prohibit the display in any manner of any literature or material of any kind urging the voting for or against any candidate or candidates or public question or questions within the whole area of the Clerk's office or within sixty feet thereof. The Clerk is hereby authorized to direct the City police to enforce such prohibition.
(Ord. 85-13. Passed 11-18-85.)