The Morris County chronicle., 1903-04-17
NEW RULES
FOR PRIMARIES
Voter At Primary Must De-
clare Before Securing Ballot
His Party Affiliation
OFFICIAL BALLOTS TO BE USED

STSohS 70 De Named as delegates
Must File Certificate of his Intention
toact as such. Primaries ofaII PoIfti-
cal Parties are to be Held at the same
Time and Place. Does not Affect any
4 Place IN County at spring Elections.
i The primary law which has Just been
signed by Governor Murphy contains
may features which are innovations
on the old way of conducting primar-
les. Under its provisions. however.
this county is not affected this spring.
1t will be put into operation here at
the general election to be held in the
fall.
The law applies to all offices to be
filed at the fall election from presiden-
tial electors down to coroner. The
general scheme and purpose of the act
is as follows. The primary elections
for all political parties shall be held at
the same time and place. In this
county it will be on the second Tues
day in September. The clerk of the
municipality shall prepare the ballots
for all the parties. Not less than ten
with the clerk of their eirmunicipality
petition endorsing any member Of
their political party as a candidate for
delegate to the convention which will
nominate candidate for office. to be
filled at the general election, and the
clerk must print the name of the per-
sons so endorsed upon the official ballot
IN l,p ticad "a tba nrino my of fhat ,,a ~ ~
Only official ballots will be permitted
to be used at the primary elections.
When a voter desires to exercise his
right at the primary, he shall 60 to
the ballot clerk, request the party tic
ket he desireSt to vote. He will then re-
ceive the official ballot of that party
and no other. He then retires to a
booth and prepares his ticket by
scratching out the names of persons for
whom he does not wish to cast his
ballot. He shall then deposit his ballot
in the box of the political party for
which he declared when he entered.
If challenged he shall make oath that
he voted for majority of the candi-
dates Of the party he now seeks to cast
his vote with, at the last general elec-
tion and that he intends to support
the candidates of that party at the en-
suing election If he votes the ticket
of one party at one primary election,
he shall not be allowed to vote in the
primary of another party the next
year. When he asks for his ticket, the
registry clerk marks opposite his name
the insignia of the party whose ticket
he votes. This practically means that
every voter shall declare at the pri-
mary to which of the political parties
he belongs.
The primaries of the several parties
are held in the same room, and the
polls for the election of delegates will
be open from one O'Clock in the after
noon until nine in the evening. After
the votes have been counted the re-
suit will be made known by certiti-
cate filed by the board of inspectors
with the municipal clerk of the dis
trict in which the primary is held.
Petitioners cannot endorse candi-
dates of more than one political party
nor can they endorse for more than
the number of delegates to be voted
for at the primary. There is also
provision for placing the name of the
candidate on the ticket voted at the
primary. There is further provision
that voter may vote for person not
placed on the ticket by writing his
name on the official ballot.
A person who is to be named for dele
gate at the primary shall file certiti-
cate stating that he is qualified for
the office, or position as delegate,
mentioned in the petition, and that
he consents to stand as a candidate for
nomination or for the position as dele
gate, as the case may be, at the ensu-
ing primary election. If he is chosen
as delegate he must in writing agree
to act as delegate.
The number of delegates to which
political convention is entitled shall
be one delegate for every two hundred
votes cast at the last gubernatorial
election by the party, and one delegate
for each fraction thereof over one hum
dred. But every election district will
be entitled to at least one delegate re-
gardless of the number of votes cast at
the aforesaid election.
JUDGE MILLS HOLDS COURT.
Only Routine Matters Taken up and
Licenses Transferred.