§ 168.718Official ballots; printer, acts prohibited; instruction ballots, printing

Sec. 718.
     It shall not be lawful for the printer of official ballots for use at any election, or any other
 person, to give or deliver any of said ballots to, or knowingly permit any of said ballots to be
 taken by, any person other than the board of election commissioners for which such ballots are
 being printed; or to print, or cause or permit to be printed, any ballots in any other form than
 the one prescribed by this act, or with any other name thereon, or with the names misspelled,
 or the names, devices or designs therein arranged in any other way than that authorized and
 directed by the said board of election commissioners; but it shall be lawful for said board of


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 election commissioners and upon its authorization for the chairman and candidates named on
 the official ballots to procure any number of facsimiles thereof to be printed on red, yellow or
 blue paper and to circulate the same for the purpose of the instruction of voters. Said colored
 facsimiles shall have printed at the head the words "Instruction Ballot".