The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-07-22
THE NOEL PRIMARY
ELECTION LAW.
FULL TEXT OF CHAPTER IS, ACTS
OF 1902.
How Candidates for all Elective o.
fees Are 10 be Nominated.
CHAPTER 66-sENATE BILL No.

SAOStAOA.St
Sections 1914 and 1915, and to provide for all
nominations for State, district, county dis
trict and county officers to be made by pri-
mary election.
Mode of Nominating State, District, Coun-
ty and County District Officers.
SECTION l. Be 1T enacted by the
Legislature of the State of MisSissippt,
That all nominations for State, district.
county and county district officers
made by the different parties of this
State shall hereafter be made by pri-
mary elections. All primary elections
shall be governed and regulated by the
Election Law of the State in force at
the time the primary election is held.
except as herein provided. The coun-
ty executive committees at such pri-
maries shall discharge the functions
imposed upon county election COM
missioners, except as to revising the
registration and poll books, and shall
be subject to all the penalties to which
county election commissioners are
subject. The primary election officers
appointed by the executive committee
of the party shall have the powers and
perform all the duties, where not here
in otherwise provided, required of such
officers in a general election, and any
and every act, or omission, which by
law is an offense when committed in
or about, or in respect to such general
election, shall be an offense if commit
ted in or about, or in respect to, a pri-
mary election held in pursuance of
this Act; and the same shall be indict-
able and punishable in the same way
as it the election was general election
for the election of State and county
officers.
Manner of Selecting District Executive
Committees; Representation on Same;
Quorum.
Sec. 2. The county executive com
mittee shall consist of fifteen members,
three to be selected from each super
visor's district. The executive com
mittees of judicial and congressional
districts shall be selected by each
county in the manner to be provided
by its executive committee; and all va
cancles in such executive committees
shall be filled by the executive COM
mittees of the counties in which such
vacancies occur. Each county shall
have representation on such district
executive committees in proportion to
double its vote in the House of Repre-
| sentatlves, having the same number of
members of the executive committee
that it is entitled to votes in the State
Convention, as hereinafter provided.
The full vote to which each county is
entitled shall be cast by its executive
committeeman present, whether one or
more. When executive committee
men, whether one or more from each
county, are present from sufficient
number of counties to constitute a
majority of the representative vote of
the committee, it shall constitute a
quorum for the transaction of bust
ness: Proxies from any county shall
not be admissible unless all of the ex-
ecutlve committeeman from the coun-
ty are absent. In senatorial and flo
torial districts, each county shall have
equal representation as to such repre-
sentatives.
State Executive Committee, How Chosen
state Conventions to be Held; County
Executive Committee, How and
When Chosen.
Sec. 3. The State Executive Com
mittee shall consist of three members
from each congressional district, to be
chosen by the delegates from the diff
ferent congressional districts attend
ing the State convention, and shall
hold for four years. A State conven-
ton shall be held by each political
party in this State in the year 1904.
and every four years thereafter, to
select State Executive Committee, to
appoint delegates to the National Con
vention, and to nominate Presidential
Electors. Each county shall be en-
titled, in the State convention, to a
number of votes equal to double it's
representation in the House of Repre-
sentatlves. The delegates are to be
selected by county delegate conven-
tlons, to be held in each county. Del
egates shall be apportioned equally
among the supervisors districts of the
county, or each precinct in the county
shall have representation in the coun-
ty delegate convention of its party in
proportion to the votes cast at the
preceding Presidential election for its
party candidates. The delegate con-
vention of each county shall choose a
county executive committee, consist
ing of three members from each SUPER
visor's district, as above provided, who
shall hold for four years, unless their
successors shall be sooner chosen in a
primary election to be held in the
county. In the event of an executive
committee being so elected or named,
in primary election, it shall hold for
four years from that time. District
executive committees shall hold until
the next succeeding district election
year after they are appointed. All the
present executive committees now act
ing shall continue until their sue
cessors are chosen, as herein provided.
Executive committees for judicial and
congressional districts, having none,
may be appointed by the various
! executive committees of the counties
composing such district.
Election to be Held for Executive Com
mittee.
Sec. A. Whenever there are two
executive committees in any county
claiming recognition as the regular
executive committee of the same politi-
cal party, the State Executive Com
mittee of that party may, aftergiVing
thirty days. notice, order primary
election, to be held under the Primary
Election Law, on such date as it may
name, for the purpose of selecting a
new executive committee of that party
for that county, and may appoint a
sub committee from It's own member
ship to appoint the election officers, to
receive the returns, and to conduct the
primary election. Each faction shall
have fair representation at each pre-
cinct The conclusion of the State
Executive Committee as to the result
of the election shall be final.
Dates for Holding Primaries
SEC. S. The first primary shall not
be held earlier than the 1St day and
not later than the 10th day of August
ON date to be fixed by the State
Executive Committee, and the second