The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-06-14
PRIMARY ELECTION LAW.
An Act to Legalize and Regulate
Primary Elections.

election, within the meaning o
this Act, is an election helC
within the State, county, city, dis
trict or subdivision thereof, as til,
case may be, by the members of am
political party, or by the voters o
some political faith, Tor the purpos,
of nominating candidate or can
didates for Office.
SEC. 2 Be 1T further enacted
That all primary elections he'd il
this State by the various politica
parties shall be held aud conducted
in the same form and manner and
under the same requirements as are
or shall be provided by law for the
holding of regular State elections,
except in such particulars as are
herein excepted.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted,
That any act or deed pronounced
an offense by the general laws of
the State concerning elections shall
also be made an offeuse in all pri-
mary elections, and shall be punish
ed in the same form as is provided
for the punishment of similar Of
lenses by the general laws; and all
the penalties and provisions of the
general laws shall apply in such
cases with equal force, and shall be
as effective as though fully set out
in this Act.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted,
That whenever il shall be desired
by the committee or governing au-
thority of any political party to hold
primary election under the pro-
visions of this Act, said committee
or governing authority shall, at
least thirty days prior to such pri-
mary election, give public notice
thereof by posting such notice at
the court house door and at one or
more public places in each ward or
district in the county in which cleo
ton is to be held, or by publication
in newspaper, if there be one pub
lished in said district or county,
once week for at least two weeks
prior to said primary. Such notice
shall state the date of such propos-
ed primary election, the hours be-
tween which it will be held, the
offices for which candidates are to
be nominated, and the places at
which polls will be opened at such
primary election.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted,
That all persons who are legal
voters shall have the right to par
ticipate IN such primary elections,
subject to such additional qualifi-
cations as may be prescribed by the
committee or governing authority.
SEC. 6. Be il further enacted,
That in all counties, districts, wards
or precincts, all legal electors
or who will be at the regular
election at which the candidats
is to be voted for, shall have
the right to vote at any primary
election held by any political party
if they conform to the conditions
aud qualifications prescribed by the
committee or governing authority
or the political party having direc-
ton and control of such primary,
by applying at the polls of the pre-
cinct in which they reside and MAX
ing known the tact that they con-
torn to such conditions and quail
ications as have been so prescribed.
In case the officers of such primary
be in doubt as to the right
IF any person to vote, such person
shall be sworn by the judges of
election and examined as to his
light to vote. Any bystanders may
llso challenge the right of any per-
ION to vote, and in all such cases
'uch person whose right to vote is
% challenged shall be sworn and
Examined as hereinbefore set forth
SEC. 7. Be it further enacted,
That the officers for each election
'recinct, ward or district in all pri- |
nary elections held under the pro-
isions hereof, shall be the same /
lumber as is required and designat- {
d by the law to hold regular State s
lect;ons, and their duties and re- q
possibilities shall be precisely the a
anne as those OF OF legally ap- !
ointed regularly qualified Off {
ers of regular State elections. c
hey shall be appointed by the reg I
larly organized and constituted a
ommittce or governing authority n
the political party holding such Q
rimary election, and shall, before a
ntering upon the discharge Of their c
sspective duties, take the same t
ath required to be taken by officers b
{ regular State elections. The t
Ificers in each primary election a
recinct, ward or district, shall be j;
elected from a list furnished by n
ne ward or district committeeman
t least ten days before such pri. /
AIRY election, and shall be as nearly p
lually divided as possible as to ii