The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-19
THE PRIMARY ELECTION
Rules of the SanbOrn County
Primary Elections

Rules OF the Sanborn County
Primary Elections
The central committee met Monday
and arranged for a prim lry election
to take the place of caucus and con-
vention. The following are the rules
governing it:
FIRST. The candidates for nomina-
ton on the republican ticket for the
various offices to be filled by the voters
of Sanborn county shall be nOmin ated
by primary election, and the candidate
receiving the highest number OF votes
for each Office shall be declared the
nominee of the republican party for
that Office and the county central COM
mittee shall have the power and au-
thority to try and determine all ques-
tions as 10 who is the nominee, and
may hear evidence and take all neces-
sary steps to determine the questions
that may arise, and the decisions of
the county central committee shall be
final and conclusive. The voting
shall be by secret ballot, and the bal
lots shall be printed and distributed
as herein provided and no other bal
lots shall be used.
PROVIDED: That said committee may
appoint from its members a canvass
ing board of not less than three and
not more than five members, who shall
elect a chairman and secretary, and
all returns of said election shall be
made to the chairman OF said can
wasting board. Said board shall
have authority to canvass said re-
turns and by its chairman and secre-
tary certify said returns and declare
the results, and ia case of any contest
the full county committee shall have
authority to try and determine such
contests and take and hear testimony
in relation thereto.
SECOND. The republican nominal
ing election to nominate candidates
for the various offices to be filled by
the voters of the county of San
born, South Dakota, shall be held at
such time as the county central COM
mittee may determine, and the polls
shall be open for the reception of
votes between the hours of l p. m. to
8 p. m. of that day, and no n except
a person known to be a republican
voter at the previous general election
, in November shall be allowed to vote
at said republican primary election.
PROVIDED: Further, that such voter
is then an adherent of the republican
party and will support the republican
ticket at the election following. No
person shall be allowed to vote at said
primary election unless he shall have
resided in the state 6 months prior to
the next general election and in San
born county for 80 days and in the
precinct in which he offers to vote,
for 10 days prior to said election and
is q years of age or will be q prior
to the general election the following
November.
THIRD. Any qualified voter may
challenge any vote offered, and any
ballot rejected by the judges shall be
enclosed in an envelope, together with
all the affidavits and evidences that
may be offered in support of or
against such vote, and seal the same,
endorsing thereon the name OF the
voter: the same to be c~anvassed by
the county central committee, whose
action in the matter will be final. Any
precinct election board may, if in its
Judgment it is desirable, employ a
justice of the peace or some other per-
son empowered to administer an oath,
to prepare the affidavits and admin
lister the oath, where no member OF
said election board is so qualified;
such expense to be paid by the central
committee.
FOURTH. There shall be three
judges of election, who shall be
discreet qualified republican voters,
in each voting precinct and said cleo
ton judges shall be appointed by the
central committee at a meeting held
for the purpose of calling a primary
election and one of said judges shall
act as clerk of election. 'The compen-
satiOn shall be one dollar each for
the Judges of election and one dollar
for the delivery of the election re-
turns, the same to be paid by the cen
trail committee. No person shall be
appointed judge of election who has
not been o resident of the precinct for
at least one year next preceding his
appointment, or who is a candida ate to
be voted for at such election or who
has not previously affiliated with the
republican party by at least voting
for its nominees at the last general
election. If for any eas any per-
son appointed as judge in any pre-
cinct should be absent at the time for
opening the polls, the republican vot-
ers present shall, by a viva voce vote,
elect q Judge or clerk as the case may
be, to fill the vacancy.
FIFTH. Any person desiring to be-
come a candidate on the republican
ticket for any Office to be filled by the
voters of the county of Sanborn shall
notify the chairman or in his absence
the secretary of the county central
committee, and upon payment of the
sum of money as asserted by the COM
mittee for defraying the expenses of
the republican nominating election,
his name shall be printed upon the
ballot to be voted at said primary
election; provided, however, that the
name of no candidate be accepted by
the committee after II o'clock noon at
least ten days prior to the date of
the primary election.
SIXTH. The assessments on the
candidates submitting their names for
the various Offices to be voted upon at
said primary election shall be as fol.
lows: For state senator, representa-
tive. clerk Of courts. cOnnfv iudUo Ak