New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-09-03
New Ul1 Review.
Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1909.
PRIMARY ELECTION LAW IN BRIEF.

PRIMARY ELECTION Law In BRIEF. +
So many inquiries have been made re-
garding the provisions of the new primary
election law the The Review deems it
wise to give its readers synopsis of its
important features and they are given
below:
All who vote at the primaries will be
registered and so entitled to vote at the
ensuing election.
At the primaries candidates shall be
chosen for all Offices to be voted for at
the ensuing election except state officers.
This includes in the primary lists judges,
congressman, members of the legislature
and county officers. Any political party
has the right to have its separate ticket
for its candidates, that at the next pre-
ceding general election cast at least ten
per cent of the total vote s'for it's lead
ing candidate," or that will file with the
county auditor petition asking for. the
right and signed by ten per cent Of the
qualified electors in the county. Also
the right of any individual to have his
name put on the general election ticket
by petition, as under the old law, is pre-
served, but this cannot be done by any
candidate who was defeated at the pri-
mary election.
On September I'd, the 18th day before
the primary, the county auditor of each
county shall make out sample ballot
for each party and post them prominent
ly in his Office for public inspection and
shall publish each separate ballot once
each week for two weeks in the Official
county paper. The ballots shall be white
with black ink, in form and appearance
like the Australian ballot, now in use in
this state, but with the names of the
printed in two columns. They
are marked by the voter with cross CX)
just as at other elections and at the top
of each ballot is the name of the party
IN large, black letters. The Offices to be
voted for shall be placed on the ballot
as follows: First judicial; next con-
gress; next legislative; next county.
On the sample ballot the names of the
candidates under each Office in each party
are to be arranged alphabetically. In
printing the ballots the order of the can
didates under each Office is to be changed
so that each candidates name shall come
first on as nearly as possible an equal
number of ballots, and the ballots are to
be arranged in packages or pads with re-
ference to this rotation. In So rotating
the names and arranging the ballots in
packages, the Office having the most
candidates under it is to be used in
making the changes of position. H.. =
The number of ballots printed, the
type used, the guarding OF ballots, anC
other requirements fixed by the genera
election law are made part Of the pr
mary law. No candidate can go on til,
ballot of any party except the party t
which he makes affidavit in his app1l
cation that he belongs.
On the day of the primary election tn,
saloons are forbidden to sell any liquo
during the hours when the polls are re
quired to be open, that is from 6 a. M
to 9p. m. and the mayor shall max,
proclamation to that effect. It is ais.
forbidden to have liquor in any pollin!
place and the judges and clerks are for
hidden to drink any spirituous liquor
in the polling place.