Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-11

mary, shall be declared the winning ticket and the presiding officer shall 1 immediately announce the result of the count.
 The check list shall be deposited in the box with the ballots when counted. The box shall then be sealed by the counters with seals which shall be fur nished by the town committee; each counter to aff1x his signature to said seal, and carried to the democratic headquarters and there delivered to the chairman of the democratic com mittee, who shall keep 1t until after the holding of all conventions to which delegates were voted for at such primary.
 5. If at any primary there shall be difference between the total number of ballots in the box and the numper of names checked as having voted, and If such difference would be equal or greater than the plurality given any one ticket, the moderator, after an nouncing the result, shall immediately forward the same to the chairman of the democratic town committee, who shall cause a second primary to be held on the following day, in that ward, at the same place and during the same hours as the first primary, and If at such second primary there shall be a like discrepancy between the ballots and the check list, then the district or ward shall not be entitled to representation in any convention under that call. But in case of a tie vote each delegate upon each of the tied tickets shall have one-half vote each.
 9. Any box tender or assistant box tender shall have the right to satisfy himself that DO person is voting more ballots than one, but the right to open and examine persons ballot shall not be exercised by any one.
 10. No person shall be allowed to solicit votes or peddle tickets within 25 feet of the booth where any pr1- mary is being held, and it shall be the duty of the moderator to enforce this provision.
 II. Credentials drawn by the secre- tary and countersigned by the chair man of the democratic town commit tee shall be sent to each elected dele gate to the various conventions at least forty eight hours before the hold ing of the convention to which he is a delegate.
 NOMINATION OF SENATORS.
 1. The candidates for senator in the fifteenth and sixteenth senatorial dis tricts shall be chosen by direct ballot according to the provisions hereinafter contained
 2. At the general primary, the chairman of the town committee shall furnish separate box to receive bal lots for senator and every person en- titled to vote at the primaries, shall also be entitled to cast ballot for a candidate for senator.
 Each candidate for senator in said fifteenth and sixteenth districts shall give to the moderator in each ward in his district, in writing, before the opening of the polls, the names of two persons to act as tellers. One of said persons shall be chosen by lot to be box tender, and another of said per sons, not representing the same candf- date, shall by lot be chosen assistant checker. Any of the other persons designated as tellers by the candidates for senator, shall have the right to be present at the primary booth and to satisfy himself that only one ballot is being voted on each name, and that the checking is being accurately done.
 4. All ballots voted for candidates for senator must be of the color, weight and type described in rule of title Primaries, ''l except the ballot shall be 4x4 inches in size and shall contain no printed matter, except the words For Sem ator' and the district wherein he is a candidate and the name of the candi- date. No ballot not in conformity with this rule shall be counted
 5. The ballots shall be counted by the tellers named by the various can- d1dates, after the check list is count ed, and all the provisions for variations in the number Of ballots cast from the number of names checked, new pri- maries, sealing of boxes and returning same to the chairman of the town committee, and reporting the result of said primaries, which are found under the title Primaries shall also apply to the direct primary held under this title for the nomination of senator.
 6. The town committee shall can. yass the votes given in each district, and the person for whom the largest number of votes have been cast in each district, shall be the nominee for the office of senator for that district.
 CONVENTIONS.
 1. The city. town and school con ventions shall be held on the second Friday evening preceding the local election at such places and hours as may be designated by the town com, mittee.
 2. Conventions for the election of delegates to the state, congressional, county and probate conventions shall be held at such time and place as the town committee shall designate, but within ten days after the primaries at which their members are. chosen.
 3. The secretary of the town com, mittee shall send notice of the time and place of each convention to each delegate entitled to sit in each conven- tion, by depositing said notice in the postoffice, addressed to each delegate, at least two days before the time 1t is to be held. The chairman of the democratic town committee shall call said convention to order, and shall im- mediately call the roll of the duly ac- credited delegates. In case the cleo tion of any delegate is contested each convention shall be the judge of it's own membership.
 No person other than regularly elect ed delegates, the chairman of the dem- j. T