Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-05-21
Primary Election.
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE
GOVERNMENT OF THE DEMO
CRATIC PRIMARY ELECTION.

NkAIlC PRIMARY ELECTION.
At meeting of the Democratic
Executive Committee of Greenbrier
! county, held ut Lewisburg, on Tues
, day, April 2Sth, 1896, the Committee
adopted the following rules and regu-
! lations for the government of the
| primary election ordered by the said
| Committee to be held on Saturday,
June 9th, 1896:
|. The polls shall be opened at eac h
of the various voting places in the
county heretofore announced on Sat
urday, June 9Th, 1896, at : O'Clock IA.
m, or as soon thereafter as possible,
and close at shutdown, and said cleo
ton shall be help as far as the same
may be applicable under and accord
ing to the law regulating general cleo
| tons in this State previous to the
adoption of the Australian system,
except as modified by these rules.
:. AT said election Democratic can
didates for the following offices shall
he voted for: Two Representatives
in tho House Of Delegates, PrOsecut.
ing Attorney, Sheriff, one County
| Court Commissioner, Clerk Of the
Circuit Court, Clerk of the County
Court, two Assessors and a County
Surveyor. The candidate receiving
the largest number Of votes for said
offices shall be declared the nominee
OF the party for said office; but,
Greenbrior being entitled to two
Delegates in the Legislature, the two
candidates receiving the largest num-
Der OF votes shall be the nominees
for that Office.
3. The following persons shall have
the right to vote at said election, and
the Commissioners appointed to con-
duct the same shall resolutely refuse
to receive the votes of any others:
LIST, Any well recognized Democrat,
being resident Of the district, who
has heretofore voted the Democratic
ticket in State and National elections,
and who has the usual qualifications
of voter as fixed by the laws of
the State; 2nd, Any young man,
" no has arrived at the age of -
since the last general election, or who
Will be of that age when the general
election is held in November next,
who Will, in the presence Ofthe Com
mlssioners and by-standers, declare
that he is a Democrat and will then
and there, on his word of honor,
promise TO vote for the nominees of
the Democratic party at the election
in November next.
4. Any person may challenge the
right of any other person who may
offer to vote at said election, and
thereupon said Commissioners, or a
majority of them, shall determine
whether said person is a legally quail.
fed voter under the law of this State
ana entitled to vote at said place of
election If said election was held &C
cording to law, and, furthermore,
whether he possesses the party quail
hcatlons above mentioned, and, I'M
less said person shall possess all of
these qualifications, his vote shall be
rejected. And the Commissioners
shall have the right to PROFOUND such
questions to the person offering to
vote and to hear such evidence from
the by-standers or others as to them
may seem proper to enable them Ia
decide the question.
D. The polls shall he closed at sun.
|
soon as practicable, after the same
are closed, said Commissioners shall
count the vote and certify the result
to this Committee in accordance, as
near as may be, with existing laws
In regular elections by the people
forwarding to said Committee, liz
like manner, the ballots, poll-books
&c. But this rule shall not be so con.
strued as to prevent the Commits
sioners from proceeding with the
count of the ballots at any time dur.
ing the afternoon of the day of cleo.
ton, provided that at least Is or 2C
ballots shall always be left in the
box until the polls are closed.
6. 1.-THE Commissioner appointed
by this Committee fail to attend the
place of election by s O'Clock a. IN.
of the day appointed for holding thi:
election, the Democratic voters pres
ent shall choose others in place OF
those who may be absent, and the
commissioners so chosen shall have
all the powers and perform all the
duties of those whose places they
may fill.
7. Before entering upon the dis
charge of their duties at said primary
election the Commissioners and each
of them shall subscribe their names
to the following obligation as printed
in the poll-bOok: 81 do hereby pledge
my solemn word of honor that, as 3
Commissioner authorized to conduct
the Democrtic primary election, tC
be held at -, in - district, or
this the 9th day of June, 1896, l will
honestly, faithfully and impartiaily
discharge my dut! as such Commits.
sioner, and will enforce the rules laid
down by the Executive Committee
for the government Of said election,
to the best Of my skill and judgment
8. The boundary lines of the pre-.
cincts as recently made by the County
Court are ignored, and parties will
be allowed to vote at any precinct in
their respective districts most con.
venient for them to attend.
S. Fl. AUSTIN, Chm.
&. n. SIMMs, Sec'y.