Description
Petitions by citizens to change or establish the location for holding elections in their election district, as well as supporting papers such as the Court Order in response to the petition. For petitions the information includes name of election district, present and proposed location for the elections, reason for the change or establishment, and signatures of eligible voters making the recommendation. For Court Orders information includes the date, time, and place ordered for an election to decide where the place for future elections will be held. Some Orders include a summary of the petition and an order to the sheriff to post notification of the upcoming election. Other support papers may include exceptions to the petitions, depositions, correspondence, and court opinions on various matters regarding these petitions.
Arrangement: Chronological by year and therein alphabetical by election district. If no date is found on the original document, the file date or Court Order date is used.
Index: None. See "inventory" for list of holings.
Related Recods: Election Volumes 1. ELECTION DOCKETS 1839-1975
2.ELECTION RETURNS DOCKETS Municipal 1976-1989
3. ELECTION RETURNS BOOKLETS Primaries and General 1925-2012
4. SOLDIERS POLL BOOKS 1864, 1916 (oversized storage)
Clerk of Courts Volumes 5. QUARTER SESSIONS DOCKETS
Clerk of Courts Papers 6. ELECTION MUNICIPAL Indebtedness Bonds 1889…1917
7. VOTERS LISTS
8. QUARTER SESSIONS MISCELLANEOUS DOCKET PAPERS Series 2
"Document Topic" column to sort for Polling Place Changes.
9. ELECTION RETURNS General 1789…1927
10. ELECTION MUNICIPAL Road Taxation System 1906-1907
Commissioners Papers 11. ELECTION WITHDRAWALS 1917…1943