[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 25, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 25CFR90.40]

[Page 283-284]
 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
     CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 90--ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF THE OSAGE TRIBE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 90.40  Ballots.

    The Superintendent of the Osage Agency shall have ballots printed 
showing the name and the office for which each candidate has been 
nominated and also space for showing the value of the respective 
ballots. The Superintendent shall have recorded on a detachable portion 
of each ballot the name of the voter. The value of each voter's ballot 
shall be recorded on the principal portion of the respective ballots. 
Any faction or group has the right to nominate any candidate it chooses, 
in accordance with the regulations prescribed in this part. The names of 
such candidates shall be printed on the ballot in the manner set forth 
as follows:
    (a) Under the heading, Principal Chief, with notation to vote for 
one, shall appear names of all candidates for that office. Under the 
heading, Assistant Chief, with notation to vote for

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one, shall appear the names of all candidates for that office. Under the 
heading, Members of Council, with notation to vote for eight, shall 
appear names of all candidates for council. Names of candidates for 
office shall appear only once on ballot, regardless of the fact that 
they may have been nominated on more than one ticket. The order in which 
names of qualified candidates for office will be placed on the ballot 
shall be by lot method of drawing in a manner to be determined by the 
tribal council, and to be free from or regardless of party or factional 
affiliations. A candidate may use one nickname. Titles and professional 
designations will not be shown on the ballot. A record shall be kept of 
any ballots that may be mutilated, canceled, or used as samples.
    (b) A space will be provided on each ballot in which the clerk prior 
to issuing the ballot shall note the value of the ballot which shall be 
exactly the same value as the voter's headright interest as shown on the 
last quarterly annuity roll, except any fraction of a headright shall be 
valued as to the first two decimals only unless such interest is less 
than one one-hundredth then it shall have its full value. As 
verification the clerk shall initial the ballot so numbered in the 
margin. In addition each ballot shall be stamped ``Official Ballot'' 
(facsimile signature Supervisor Osage Election Board). Should any voter 
spoil or mutilate his ballot in his effort to vote he may surrender the 
ballot to the supervisor who shall give the voter in lieu thereof 
another ballot which shall show its appropriate value. The spoiled or 
mutilated ballot or any portion of a spoiled or mutilated ballot shall 
be retained with other records pertaining to the election.

[32 FR 10253, July 12, 1967. Redesignated at 47 FR 13327, Mar. 30, 1982]