The San Francisco call., 1899-05-27
Republican.
so Candidates.
DISTRICT.
Total.

:. .r he necessary to notify the pub
lie of the opening Of registration; an nrder to
persons are entitled TO reslstel III ot{ca will
vote as required by law. one hoelSe Iii
ns,,ver for the two elections ana VIII
cost about $3uO. ,,r bopora HE
1 IL w - detarnine the number of precincts
80 viii he required for the InuhclpaI
election, and this must be done at Gnti 1lIJ ioI ~
order to estimate the cost OF the three
There are now three hundred anu co 600
19031 general election precincts, anu W. 80
voters are enrolled upon the various P
cinct registers: Ill, ha Aooo votes
added TO the roll, making 66,oOO electors electors
registered Past experience mas Pi0n1n -. ,,a
that at municipal elections Wnere fr tte ,be zen
are held separate and apart from ee tie e.
eral election, the vote has fallen on tTgis This
ty per cent from the registratlo catf cal9
would give an estimated vote 70 DC ~
a+ our municipal election of 52 s0o. ,,,a
one hundred and Atty precincts "oreu 1rnI
make an average of 440 votes 10 PFC
'iTgs The election law, section 1923. Political
Code SAYS: There shall be as many ptea pto
cincts as shall be sufhclent 70 hane @ ~
number of votes polled at any Jill, one - oe
cinct to be not more than 200, as nearly as
can be ascertained. n.. ord
The law also requires the heglstraI' tba 4e'T taT
list and register the names of the resident
citizens possessing the necessary quailLcao qua ~ d.
tions to act officers of election, ana nare
the same placed in a book for ready reler-
once Special cards of instructions 10 OIL
fcers of election and to voters Will now
have To be prepared for the primary eiec-
tion as required by sections l2l0 ana lSos S., pl
the Political Code, and tally list. poll poohs
and official returns prepared as py ID"
directed it will be necessary also 70 CON- com
pile the election laws for use at the eiec-
tions. - ,o,or
would. therefore, request your honor
able board as follows: ..
First-That 1 be authorized to advertise,
as required by law, the opening and closing
of registration. g.
the municipal election be determined as
soon as possible.
Third-That l be authorized to map out
the precincts in accordance with your Or
ders.
Fourth-That be allowed six extra clerks
on June l for the purposes of registration,
cancellations and removals, and TO make
the list of qualified persons to act as eiec-
ton officers, as required of me by law,
and to prepare the necessary blanks, cards
of instructions, tally lists, poll lists and
official returns and the compiling of the
election laws. Respectfully
j. STEPPACHER, Registrar of Voters.
All of the requests made by the Regis
trar were granted and he was fnStructe
to proceed with the work of consoidatin
the precincts for the municipal election
ii being understood that the consolidate
shall reduce the present number OF pre-
cincts to as near $50 as possible.
Registrar Steppacher has completed tn
work of compiling the averages upo
be chosen by each political party at tn
coming primary election will be baset
The result, as set forth in the accompany
ing table, was reached by taking the tot;
number of votes cast for all of the car
didates of each party in each of the A;
number of candidates upon each part
ticket