The herald., 1898-01-10

| tion Tor each three polling places pro-
vided for q general election--that is, 9
polling place for at least each three pre-
cincts. Each political party may file q
list of the polling-place locations It de-
sires, and the election commissioners
shall select those most convenient for
all voters.
The polls shall be kept open from
a. m. to sunset. and shall be at all times
kept open to the public during the re-
ception OF the ballots and until the same
are counted and the results declared.
Any person voting on behalf of any
party declares thereby his intention to
vote for the nominees of that party, and
he may be challenged and his vote with
held unless he will make oath to that
effect
Provision is made as to the size Of
the ballot and for a secret ballot.
The canvass must be public, and every
political party may have two watchers
present during the count. The vote
shall be counted, etc., in the same man
ner as provided by law for a general
election, except as otherwise provided.
The governing body of each political
party may furnish to the election COM
each precinct whom such party is de-
challenger for such party, under pre-
scribed rules.
Electors removing from one residence
to another in the same primary precinct
shall not thereby lose to right to vote;
but at the time of voting the change
of residence may be interlined on the
register.
Any person who at any primary cleo
ton shall vote illegally or attempt so to
vote shall be subject to the same punish
ment provided by law in cases of such
voting or attempting to vote at a gen.
eral election. If the primary election
officers shall permit an unauthorized
person to vote after the fact is shown.
they shall be guilty of felony.
Change Of registration shall be made
by the county clerk or registrar of vot-
ers; no certificates Of transfers are to
be given, but the same shall be made
on the books. Any legal voter may vote
at q primary election providing he is
registered and has been legal resident
of his precinct for thirty days prior to
any primary election.
The primary elections for all political
parties or organizations within the state
shall be held at the same time and at the
same several respective places.
Each political party or organization
may determine for itself how many con-
ventions it will hold for nominating it's
various candidates; provided, all can
didates which are to be elected within a
given territory must be nominated in
the same convention.
Elaborate provisions are made as to
what the tickets must contain.
At a general primary election held for
the purpose of electing delegates to a
convention other than a state conyen-
tion, there shall be elected not less than
one delegate for each party convention
for each 200 votes and each fraction of
100 or more cast in such precinct at the
last general election.
No candidate shall be placed upon any
official ballot to be voted for at any elec-
ton by convention of any political
party or organization, unless he shall
hle an affidavit to the effect that he has
not directly or indirectly expended
money in excess Of the amounts pre-
scrtbed by law, which are given in ex-
tense. Such candidate shall file an item
lied statement of his expenditures A
superior Judge may excuse a candidate
upon certain named representations.
"Electioneering" and the distribution of
ballots within 100 feet of the polling
place are forbidden. No polling place
shall be held in any saloon.
No candidate of any political party
or organization can have his name
printed upon any election ballot, unless
he shall have been nominated by con-
vention composed of delegates chosen
as provided by this act; provided, how
ever, that nothing in this act shall pre-
vent any candidate from being nom
mated as provided in section 11sS Of the
political code; but such nominees can
have no other designation on the ballot
than the word Independent" and pro-
vided further,that no more than one
candidate shall be nominated by one
petition.