Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-14
REPUBLICAN VOTING
Rules and Regulations Adopt
ed by Commission.
SELECTION OF JUDGES
THEY SHALL DETERMINE WHO
MAY CAST BALLOT.
Duties Of the Returning Board Set
Forth-Many Political Meetings.
Held Last Night.

marieS commission, held at O'Clock yes
terday afternoon in the Offices OF MI
Chaplin Brown chairman. rules and reguia-
lions to govern the approaching primary
elections in the District were formally
adopted, as follows:
I'VE. the undersigned, the election board
selected by the national republican COM
mittee, under and by virtue of the au-
thorfty vested in us by said national re-
publican committee, do hereby adopt and
establish the following regulations and ar
rangements for holding and governing SAID
election, and hereby fix the date for hold
ing said election follows:
Every male citizen OF the District OF
Columbia, twentyone years of age or up
ward, who has been heretofore known as
afhliating with the republican party or who
approves it's policy, and who has resided in
the District for one year next prior to the
date of the election and for six months
preceding the election in his voting pre-
cinct, shall have the right to vote.
1.-THE District of Columbia shall be d.
vided into twenty-five precincts, corre-
spending with what has been formerly
known as the legislative districts. The
voting places shall be hereafter desis-
mated.
Election of Judges.
'Prior TO the election this election board
persons of known integrity as a board of
judges. whose duty it shall be on the day
of election to determine the qualifications of
persons entitled to vote as herein prescrib-
ed to receive, count announce and return
the ballots to a returning board hereafter
provided for. Said board of judges shall
choose one Of its members as chairman and
one IS clerk
This election board WILL prior to the cleo
ton, select three voters qualified as herein-
before mentioned, as a returning board
THE election snail be held on Tuesday,
May g. 1904.
Polls shall be opened during such hours
of said last named dry as this election
board may hereafter G4termine
Ballots shall be printed in plain type and
shall contain the following words only:
For delegates and alternates to repub-
1ican national convention, June q, 1904
Delegates, -. Alternates. -.
Who Can Vote.
Each board of Judges shall ascertain
and determine the qualification of any per-
son Offering his ballot before allowing him
to deposit the same If the right to vote
is challenged by any person qualified to
vote as herein prescribed said board Ct
Judges shall at once determine finally such
persons right forecast, vote when any
such challenge is made no other vote shall
be received by the board until 1t shall have
determined the qualification of the person
whose right is challenged.
Each board of judges shall keep regis
tration record, upon which shall be entered
at the time a vote is deposited the full
name of the voter. the precinct In which he
votes, his street and the number OF his resi-
dence. and no voter shall be allowed TO De
post his ballot until such registration 10
fully completed.
Counting of the Votes.
.Ten minutes prior to the closing of the
Of oh, hoa of Judges
shall announce that the polls will be closed
at the time hereafter to be fixed by this
board of election. At the close of the poiis
each board of Judges shall open the boxes
and openly count the ballots cast in he
voting places in which they are judges, ana
make return thereof. to be signed by
them or 4 majority of them winch return
shall state the names of the persons for
whom ballots are cast the number received
by each, and shall thereupon make pupllc
declaration of the result the poard OF
Judges Immediately after making such pup
lie declaration shall seal up all the ballots,
together with the registration record, anu
over their names shah address the same,
and return by its chairman. VINO s1 "a, he Is
associate Judges, the packages 10 tne re-
turning board within two hours from the
time of such sealing. And ir no case shaii
the board of judges adJourh uh'h 40 W.
ties are completed. :,
1.-The returning board shall choose one o.
its members as chairman and one as clerk.
At the expiration of two hours from the
close of the polls said returning board snan
convene to receive the returns from the
several boards of judges. Said returning
board shall unseal the packages OF ballots
and tabulate the returns as made by the
boards of Judges. No appeals shall be al
lowed by the returning board from any de-
cision of the board of judges relative to the
qualification of voters. When the return
ing board shall complete it's tabulation 1t
shal openly announce the names of the per-
sons for whom votes have been cast and the
number received by each.
1.-The returning board or majority shall,
on the compilation of its duties, file imme-
diately with the election board. a statement
over their signatures showing the names
of the persons for whom votes were cast
and the number received by each candidate.
This election board or majority thereof
shall give the two persons receiving the
larger number of votes for delegates and
alternates certificates. of their election.
Changes or amendments to these regu-
lations and arrangements may be hereafter
made, in the discretion of the election
board.
(Signed) ''CHAPIN BROWN. Chairman:
GEO. II. HARRIES,
JOHN F. COOK"