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Charles Mix County designates polling places and appoints election judges for Nov. 3, 1908
Summary
The county board designated voting precinct boundaries, polling places across townships, and appointed judges and clerks for the Nov. 3, 1908 general election; the minutes record precinct divisions (including splitting White Swan into three precincts) and named poll workers.
On Sept. 8, 1908 the Charles Mix County Board of Commissioners formally designated election precincts and polling places to be used for the Nov. 3 general election and later appointed judges and clerks for each precinct.
The record lists polling locations and precinct boundaries across townships (Bryan, Castalia, White Swan, Geddes, Platte, Lake Andes, Wagner, and many others). The board divided White Swan Township into three voting precincts with specified polling places: White Swan Precinct No. 1 (schoolhouse in Sec. 26, Twp. 96 Rge. 66), Precinct No. 2 (Mirscht schoolhouse), and Precinct No. 3 (John H. Whitmane dance house). The minutes also name polling places for Geddes, Platte, Lake Andes and Wagner and direct that precincts used in prior June elections remain in effect where specified.
At subsequent sessions (September–October) the board appointed judges and clerks for each precinct and authorized those judges to take charge of coincident special elections. The minutes record dozens of individual appointments by precinct and show the county taking routine steps to staff and equip the election, including authorizing room rents and supplies for polling places.
The board recorded the completion of these administrative tasks in advance of the November election; later minutes show the county canvassed and certified those returns in early November 1908.