Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-11-01

NOMINATION PAPERS, WHERE
FILED-Section 6. All nomination
papers shall be filed as follows:
/ For state officers, United States
senator. representatives in congress.
and those members of senate and as
sembly whose districts comprise more
than one county, in the office of the
secretary Of state.
2. For officers to be voted for wholly
within one county, in the office of the
county clerk Of such county.
g. For city officers, IN the office Of
PUBLICATION OF NAMES OF CAN
DIDATES.- Section 7. At least twen-
ty-five days before any primary pre-
shall be entitled to vote at any primary
unless a qualified elector of the pre-
cinct and duly registered therein, If
registration thereat be required by
law.
2. Every primary election day and
the Monday next preceding it, shall be
registration days, where registration is
required. on which the inspectors shall
exercise the powers prescribed by sec
tions 25 and 26, statutes of 1898; but no
person shall be registered on or after
the day of holding the primary without
personally appearing before the in
spectors.
8. The inspectors shall register any
person who shall on any registration
day file an oath or affirmation to the
effect that he is a qualified elector in
such precinct, or when they personally
know him to be such.
4. Any person registered on either
of said days as prescribed herein, shall
be entitled to vote at the succeeding
election without other registration.
s. There shall be no other registra-
ton day or days for either a primary.
all al
prescribed by section q, of the statutes
of $685.
6. No voter shall be required to
register under the provisions of this
act were registration is not now re-
Quired by law
Z. The inspectors shall be in session
for the purpose of registration from
nine o'clock in the morning until eight
o'clock in the evening, except that on
the day of holding the primary they
shall be in session from six o'clock in
the morning until nine o'clock in the
evening. No inspector or clerk shall be
paid to exceed three dollars as compen-
sation for services on any registration,
primary, general or city election day.
CHALLENGES. - Section Is. The
party committee Of each precinct may
appoint in writing over their sigma
lures, two party agents or representa-
tiveS, with an alternate for each, who
shall act as challengers tor their re-
spective parties, and have the power
prescribed by section 46, statutes Of
1898 The right of any person to vote
at primary may be challenged upon
the same ground and his right to vote
be determined in the same manner as
at an election. The chairman of each
party committee of any precinct may
represent his party at the polling booth
during the canvass and return of the
vote at primary or he may appoint
an agent or designate a member of
his committee for that purpose
CANVASS OF VOTES.-Section 49,
Canvass of votes cast shall, except as
herein otherwise provided, be made in
the same manner and by the same
officers as the canvass of an election.
The party chairman Of the precinct in
precinct canvass, of the county in a
county canvass, of the state in a state
canvass, or some duly appointed agent
to represent each party shall be al
lowed to be present and observe the
proceedings.
l. The precinct inspectors of election
shall, on separate sheets, on blanks
to be provided for that. purpose, make
full and accurate returns of the votes
cast for each candidate, and shall with
in twentyfour hours cause to be de-
livered one copy of such returns as
7,
chairman of that party and also cause
such returns to be delivered to the
county clerk, if a September primary,
or to the chairman of the city COM
mittee and city clerk if city primary,
provided always that such returns
shall be sent by registered mail where
practicable
z. The county canvass Of the returns
OF the September primary shall be
made by the same officers and in the
manner provided in chapter 5, statutes
OF 1893, for the canvass of the returns
OF November election. The canvass
ers shall meet and canvass such returns
at ten o'clock on the Friday following
the september primary. Their returns
shall contain the whole number of votes
cast for each candidate of each politi-
cal party, and a duplicate as to each
political party shall be delivered to
the county chairman of such party
3. The canvassers shall also make
an additional duplicate return in the
same form as provided in subdivision
2, showing the votes cast for each
candidate not voted for wholly with
in the limits of lie county. The county
clerk shall forthwith send to the secre-
tary of state by registered mail one
complete copy of all returns as to
such candidates, and he shall likewise
send to the chairman of the state CEN
tsal committee of each party a dupli-
cate copy of the returns last described
relating to such candidates of each
such party.
Section IT, The board of canvassers
provided for by section SO, statutes of
1893, to canvass returns of a Novem-
Der. election, shall constitute the state
board of canvassers of September pri-
maries, and all the provisions of sec
ton 81 and CAB inclusive of said stat
utes relating to the canvass of the re-
turn Of a November election, shall,
as far as applicable, apply to the can
vass, return, and certification to the
secretary Of state Of such primary.
Such board shall meet at the office
of the secretary of state at ten o'clock
a. m. on the third Tuesday of Septem-
Der next after the September primary.
PARTY CANDIDATES.-Secti 49,
l. The person receiving the greatest
number of votes at a primary as the
candidate Of a party for an office, shall
be the candidate Of that party for
such office, and his name as such
candidate shall be placed on the official
ballot at the following election.
2. AS soon as a state canvass Of a
primary shall be certified to him, the
secretary Of state shall publish in the
official state paper certified statement
of the result Of such primary as to can
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