The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-08-14

For instance voters in a commissioner
district will only vote for the candidate
for county commissioner in that dis
trict and in the list of candidates for
county commissioner only candidates
for any particular district will appear
on the ballots. In other words the
ballots are substantially the same in
arrangement as those for a general
election, with the exception as noted
that there will be a ballot for. each
political party instead of having can
didates for all parties grouped on one
ballot. Fourteen days before the
primary election the county auditor
makes up primary election ballots for
the different political parties and shall
post the same in his Office and shall
publish the same twice before the
election. In printing the ballots the
order of the candidates under each Of
fee is to be changed so that each can
didate's name shall come first on as
nearly as possible an equal number of
ballots, and the ballots are to be ar
ranged in packages or pads with
reference 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.
With these provisions the voter
ought to become pretty familiar with
the ballots and the candidates. If he
has not had the pleasure of the 'sglad
hand" with any of them he can look
them up or inquire into their record.
The law intends that the voter shall
be monarch of all he surveys to the
extent of one vote only. He goes to
the polling place where the polls shall
remain open from in the morning un-
til at night, and registers. He then
calls for his ballot, designating the
political party and he is handed bal
lot by the judge and goes into the vot-
ing booth and marks cross opposite
the names of his candidates for the
different offices. When he has fixed
up his ballot he gives it to the Judge
who deposits it in the ballot box. In
case a voters right to vote is chal-
lenged then his right is determined by
placing him on oath the same as at a
general election. If his right to re-
ceive the party ballot he asks for is
challenged then he must make oath
that the ballot he calls for is the ballot
of the party he ''generally supported''
at the last general election. The term
generally supported, is. a very broad
term, and does not mean that he voted
for the head of the opposition ticket,
or for any fixed number of candidates
on that ticket, and just what support
must be given to ticket to make the
voter ''generally'' support that ticket,
each must determine for himself. A
voter demanding the right to vote any
ticket at the primary, cannot be asked
or required to disclose the name of any
candidate for whom he voted at any
general election. Also the voter is
himself the sole Judge, under oath, of
what party he S'generally supported.
lnasmuch as at the last preceding
election the voter was doing business
on the q. t. in the booth and no one
knew what ticket he supported, there
is nothing to checkmate a very elastic
conscience.
At least two weeks prior to the pri-
mary, the city and village councils, and
town supervisors shall fix the bounda-
ries of the election districts.
The primary shall be held in these
districts at the places where the last
election was held or at such other place
as shall be lawfully designated. The
place and time of holding the primary
and the hours the polls will be open
and the Offices to be filed shall be an
nounced just as for general election
by posting notices in three public
places one being the polling place.
The judges of election for the, pri-
mary must be appointed at least ten
bays before the primary election day
and are appointed as provided by the
general election law. The clerks of
election are also chosen by the judges
as provided by the general election
law.
On the day of the primary election
the saloons are forbidden to sell any
liquor during the hours when the polls
are required to be open, that is from 6
A. M. to P. M, and the mayor shall
make proclamation to that effect.
The provisions of the general elec-
ton law as to false registration, defac-
ing posted lists, giving out of ballots,
arrangement of polling room and
boxes, regulations at polling places,
crowds within 100 feet of the polling
place, challenging, manner of voting,