Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-05-31

to the law under which each such election
Is held: On receiving mis- ballot the elector
shall forthwith and without leaving the
polling place retire alone to one OF the
booths or compartments to prepare the
same, which shall be done by marking In
the square at the right of the name of
the person or persons he wishes to vote for
a cross: thus Y. If he wishes to vote for
a person whose name is not on the ballot,
he must wllte such name in the blank
space provided for that purpose, provided
That 1t shall not be necessary to place a
cross ,atter the name when written, IN or
der that the vote may be counted for such
person: An elector may use or copy an
unofficial sample ballot which may have
been marked in advance of his entering
the polling place, but he shall use or bring
into such booth no such sample ballot print
ed upon paper of the color or quality re-
fetal ballot. After preparing his ballot the
elector shall fold it so that its face will
be concealed, and that the printed indOrse
inent ana signatures or initials OF the bal
lot clerks thereon may be seen. He shall
then vote forthwith and before leaving
the polling place.
the statutes of 1898 and acts amenda DRY
thereof, pertaining to general and city eiec
TONS shall be applicable to primary cleo
lions where not otherwise herein provided.
Or any primary election day the polls in
each precinct in any city shall be open
from 6 o'clock in the morning until 3
O'Clock in the evening, in all other pre-
ciDcts the polls shall be open from o'c1ock
in the morning to O'Clock in the evening.
Sec. 10. No person, except as hereinafter
provided, shall be entitled to vote at a
primary election unless duly registered.
Every primary election day and the Mon
day next preceding it shall be registration
days, on which the inspectors shall exer
else the powers prescribed by sections %
and 20 of the statutes of 1898, except that
no person shall be registered on or after
the Cay of holding primary election with
out personally appearing before the inspec
tors. The inspectors shall register any per-
son who shall on any registration day file
an affidavit or affirmation to the effect that
he is qualified voter in such election pre-
cinct. Any person registering on either of
the said days as prescribed herein, If other
wise legal voter, shall be entitled to vote
at the ensuing general or city election
no other registration day or days for either
a primary, general or city election, except
that prescribed b. section q of the S atutes
of 1895 No voter shall be required to reg
lister under the provisions of this act in
any election precinct where registration is
not now required by law. The inspectors
tration from 8 O'Clock in the morning until
clock in the evening, except on the day
day from O'Clock in the morning until 0
O'Clock in the evening. No inspector or
clerk shall be paid to exceed So per day
as compensation for his services on amy
registration, primary, general, or city cleo
ton day.
Sec. 16 At any primary election no per-
son shall vote any ticket but that of the
party with which he affiliates. The right
OF any person to vote at any primary cleo
ton may be challenged and determined as
now provided by law for challenges at gen
eral and city elections, and further on the
ground that he Is not memL r of the par
~, the ticket of which he proposes to vote.
to vote unless he shall file with the in
spectors his affidavit in the following form:
STATE OF WISCONSIN, SC
....... County, 90
on oath, says: / am twenty-one years MOt of f
age; a citizen of the United States (or
haye declared my intention to become a
citizen of the United States; have resided
in the state of Wisconsin one year, and in
county and state for ten DAYS preceding
the date hereof; / am a member of the
.......... party, the ballot of which / now
propose to vote, and it is my present in
at the next general Tor city, election, SO
Subscribed and sworn to before mel
this ........ day of ........, 19O..
insert designation of oiicer.j
All affidavits provided for in sections IS
and 16 of this act may be made before any
officer authorized by law to administer
oaths, or a clerk, or an inspector of cleo
ton, who is hereby authorized to admin
lister such oaths within his election precinct.
All such affidavits shall be fastened togeth-
er, filed and preserved in the Office of the
county clerk, If made at a primary election
clerk If preceding a city election.
Sec. II. The party committee of each
election precinct hereinafter provided for,
shall appoint in writing over their sigma
lures, two party agents or representatives,
with an alternate for each, who shall act
as challengers for their respective parties,
a. of the statutes of 1898, except that
they may only challenge the right of any
person to vote the ticket of their own par
ty. The chairman of each party commit
booth of his precinct during the canvass
and return of the vote.
Sec. 1S The inSDpctOrS election in
each precinct shall make, on separate
sheets, for each party. in duplicate, a full
each candidate. The precinct chairman
shall certify upon each duplicate return
relating to his party, that the same is an
by his party. The inspectors shall within
twenty-four hours deliver one copy of the
return as as to to each political party to the
such primary election and the other to
the county clerk, if primary election pre-
clerk, If a city election.
Sec. 10. The vote shall be canvassed in
the following manner: II for a single pre-
trict having more than one precinct and
wholly within any ward, city or county, by
cincts therein, who shall meet at II O'Clock
in the forenoon on the second day fThurs-
day) succeeding such primary election at
filed. They shall adjourn to suitable places,
as near as may be to the office of the city
or county clerk where each party shall
forthwith proceed to canvass the vote, de-
termfne the result and declare the person
receiving the highest number of votes for
each office, the nominee of his party Such
canvass shall be made from the certified
returns. provided by section Is of this act.
They shall make duplicate return of their
canvass which shall be delivered to the
city or county chairman, elected at such
meeting as the case may be, who shall re
tain one copy and, within twenty-four
hours after the canvass is completed file
the other with the county clerk, if the pri-
mary election precede a general election, or
the city clerk, if city election Such
county meeting of precinct chairmen shall
also make an additional duplicate return
each candidate in any district not wholly
within such county, which duplicate return
shall be delivered to the county chairman
elected at such meeting, who shall, within
twenty-four hours after the canvass is COM
pleted, send one copy thereof to the secre-
tary of state by express.
Sec. 20. The party chairman of each
county shall meet in the assembly cham
Der at the capitol at u o'clock noon on
Tuesday one week after each primary cleo
The representatives of each party shall adj
iourn to convenient. places in the capitol
building and there forthwith begin to can
vass the vote of their party for the re
spective candidates, as shown by the re-
turns in the hands of the county chairmen,
as above provided. determine the result and
declare the person receiving the highest
number of votes for each office the nominee
of his party for that office; such canvass
shall continue until completed, the vote for
candidates for state officers being fist can
vassed by all the county charmen meet
ing in a body, next that for candidates for
Congress, then for state senators, and then
for assemblymen, such canvass being made
at meetings Of the county chairmen of the
counties wholly. or partially within any
canvass shall be made by each such meet
ing in the. manner prescribed for the re
turns in the case of meetings of county
chairmen, and delivered to the chairmen
of the state or respective district commit
tees who are to have charge of the ensu-