The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-13

their party nominees. but the names of
candidates for township Offices ehall not
be placed thereon. Also on such ballots
shall be printed notice OF the latest
date on which they may be placed in the
United States mail. All such ballots
shall be OF uniform size, color and Quail
ity. In case of the loss or destruction OF
ballot, the voter losing or destroying
the same may apply to the public off,
cial or committee in charge, for q new
one, and the public official or commit
tee in charge shall thereupon cancel the
number on the stub of the ballot so lost
or destroyed and place over the mum Der
80 erased the number OF the new ballot.
The public official or committee in
charge must require an affidavit Of the
facts OF the loss or destruction of such
ballot before issuing the new one. Any
person whose name Ia on the party list,
as provided for herein, to whom O bal
lot has been mailed or given, may APP
ply in person for, and receive person.
ally his ballot, or he may apply through
the mail therefor, in which case the bal
lot may be cent to him through the
mail. All envelopes enclosing ballots,
which are mailed to voters, shall be ad-
dressed to the post Office address as
given on the party list.
Sec. z. Twenty days before the date
set for canvassing the ballots cast at the
primary election, the public official or
committee in charge shall place in
barge Of the postofice officials of the
place where such primary election bust
ness is being transacted, securely
made. locked box. of sufficient capacity
to hold all ballots which may be cast,
with email opening through which the
ballot envelopes may be put into the
box. This box shall be provided with
lock OF make not common, and there
shall be but one key thereto, which
ehal at all times be in charge of the
public official or committee in charge.
All envelopes addressed to the public
official or committee in charge, marked
Postal Primary Ballot Envelop, shall be
placed in this box by the postal author
tiles, az they are received in the regular
course OF mail.
Sec. s. On receipt of the ballot by the
voter, he may vote for such persona for
delegates to his party convention Qrom
among those whose names appear upon
the ballot az candidates for delegates to
the convention) as he may choose, OBJ
eerving such rules and regulations aH to
the number voted for as his party's CEN
trail committee or other governing body
may have promulgated. and ne may also
express his preference for party NOM
ineee, from among those candidates
whose names appear upon the ballot. In
both cases, that is in voting for delegates
to the convention and in expressing
preference for one person over another or
others for the party nomination for an
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placing after the name of person go
voted for, or for whom preference is in
dictated, cross (X), with pen and ink
only, in the blank space provided on the
ballot for that purpose. He shall also
affix his signature to the Affirmation con-
corning the receipt of the ballot and it's
being personally deposited in the mail,
as provided in sec 6. Having prepared
his ballot, the voter will seal it in the
stamped envelope addressed to the pub
lie officia or committee in charge, which
has been sent to him with the ballot.
and deposit the same in the United
States mail
Sec. 8. Any person who sells, gives
or loans his primary ballot, or the use
thereof, to another. or permits another
to prepare the same, shall be disfran-
chised in SO far as primary election
held under this plan is concerned. and
any person who purchases. receives,
borrows or prepares the primary ballot
of another shall also be disfranchised
from voting at the primary election. In
case of good aud sufficient proof of the
commission of any of the acts named
herein being made to the public official
or committee in charge, such public Off
cial or committee in charge shall destroy
the ballot of the person so proven guilty,
without opening or counting the same,
and in sach case it shall DO the duty of
the public official or committee in
charge to prosecute such guilty party to
the uttermost under existing laws.
Sec. 10. The public official or COM
mittee in charge sshall provide room
in which to canvass the ballots, which
must be of sufficient capacity for at
least 100 persons to be accommodated
therein, in such a way that the ballots
will at all time be in open view, and
each candidate whose name appears
upon primary election ballots shall be
entitled to have at least one representa-
tive bystander, to the exclusion OF all
other perEons not engaged in canvassing
the ballots.
Sec. IL. At s am. of the day which
has been named by the central commit
tee or other governing body for can
wasting the ballots cast at the primary
election, the public official or committee
in charge shall seal the aperture in the
box, in the postoffice, and Immediately
and publicly remove said box to the
place whore the ballots are to be-
counted. Immediately upon its arrival
there the public official or committee in
charge shall open said box in public and
in the presence of the bystanders. The
envelopes containing the ballots shall
then be taken out and counted, and the
envelopes (not the ballots) shall there
after be opened and the ballots taken
therefrom the nance thereon
shall be read, and each name
shall be checked off on the
party list and on the ballots stub. and
each name shall be marked voted" ON
the party list; provided that the name
on the detachable portion OF the ballot
agrees with the name on the stub from
which the ballot was taken, and il it
does not, the ballot shall be rejected.
The name, voting number and residence
of the voter shall thereupon be taken
from the ballot, and the ballot snail
then be replaced in box or strung on
string. After the ballots have all been
the names, voting numbers and resi-
dence having been removed thersfrom,
the public official or committee in
count the ballots, publicly, one by one,
in the presence OF the bystanders. and
announce the result OF the same, openly
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