Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-10-05

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gressional and county delegates, and
shall also call all county conventions. The
city primaries and conventions shall be
called by the city committee. The
township and borough primaries and
conventions shall be called by the town
ship executive committee and borough
committee respectively.
SEC. 2. All primaries to elect dele
gates to any convention shall be held
throughout the county on the same day,
notice of which shall be published ten
days in advance. Judges shall be sworn
as required by law. All ballots shall be
written or printed, or partly written and
partly printed.
SEC. 3. All primary judges and
clerks shall be elected by the Democratic
voters of the township, ward, borough
or precinct present at the hour of the as
sembling for the election of delegates.
SEC. q. No person shall vote at a
primary election who is not legal or
known voter of the Democratic party,
and resident of the district for which
such primary is held. The name and
residence of each voter shall be entered,
by the clerk, in the poll book to be pro
vided for such purpose.
SEC. 5. Every primary election shall
be held and conducted as far as practi-
cable in conformity to the law i'll relation
to elections. Each primary shall be
held in some place where there shall be
conveniences for holding the same pub
licly and for persons present to see the
ballot box and all ballots as they are
deposited therein, and the candidates on
each ticket at said election shall have
the right to appoint one person to take a
position in said place where he can read
the names on every ballot when counted.
No ballot printed on tissue or unneces-
sarily thin or colored paper shall be
received.
SEC. 6. At the close of such election
the judges shall proceed at once to count
the votes, and shall keep tally of the
same in the poll book A statement of
the result shall be made in the poll book
and signed by the judges and presented
to the Secretary of the County Com
mittee at or before twelve O'Clock of the
day succeeding such primary election.
unless for unavoidable reasons it cannot
be so delivered, in which case such result
shall be delivered to said Secretary at
the earliest hour thereafter.
SEC. 7. The Chairman, Secretary and
Committee on Contests and Appeals
shall meet at the headquarters of the
Committee at three O'Clock, p. m, on
the day after such primaries ordered by
the County Committee, and shall hear
and decide upon any cases of contest or
upon any complaint presented to them,
and order certificates of election to such
persons as they deem justly entitled to
receive the same. The same practice
shall govern city, township and borough
primaries by their respective COM
mittees.
SEC. s. All certificates of election to
be given delegates shall be made out by
the Secretary and be signed by him and
the Chairman and delivered to the per-
sons entitled to receive the same.
SEC. g. The possession of such certi-
fcate shall entitle the person named
therein to seat in the convention, and
his title thereto shall not be questioned
until the convention otherwise decides.
SEC. 10. If, upon investigation, it is
found that the result of any primary
election held under the authority of this
Committee is tainted with fraud, the
Committee on Contests and Appeals, with
the Chairman and Secretary or major
ity of them, shall have the power to
order new primary election for such
district upon such notice to the public as
the time intervening before the conven-
ton will permit