The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-08-26

100 voters), that none except those vot
ing be allowed within six feet of the
booths or judges; that gatekeeper to
keep the voters in line may be named;
as to supplies for the polls and booths;
as to preliminaries, that is that the
judges expose the ballot boxes and show
them to be empty before being locked
for use, and formally declaring the open
ing of the polls, and the provisions as
to challengers, etc.
The polls shall be opened at six
o'clock in the morning and remain open
until nine o'clock in the evening. If
at the hour for closing voters are at the
door or in line desiring to vote, then the
polls shall remain open reasonably long
enough to enable all then present and
so desiring to vote.
There shall be no adjournment or in
PERMISSION from the time the polls are
open until the polls are closed and the
vote counted and publicly announced,
except temporary recess while taking
meals, or necessary delay; but even
then the board must remain in session
and not more than one member of board
shall at any time be absent from the
polling place.
To have the right to vote person
must have the following requirements.
He must have the right to register on
that day as voter in that election dis
trict at the ensuing general election.
That is he must on the general election
day ensuing Nov. 8, have been a resident
of the state six months with the legal
requirements of citizenship. A first vot-
er does not have to be of age on the
day of the primary provided he will be
of age Nov. s. A person can vote in the
election district in which he resides on
the primary election day if he has not
resided there thirty days but intends to
remain there until the general election
day.
Before voting each voter must regis
ter. Then he shall be given the ballot
of the political party with which he de-
clares that he affiliated, and whose can
didates he generally supported at the
last general election, and with which
party he proposes to affiliate at the next
election. If his right to vote at all is
challenged, then that right is determined
as at a general election, Che must take
oath as to residence, age and citizen
Ship If his right to receive the party
ballot he asks for, is challenged, then
he must make oath that that is the
party he affiliated with at the last gen.
eral election and whose candidates he
generally supported" at the last cleo
tion and with which he proposes affiliat-
ing at the next election. first voter
does not have to declare his past po-
litical affiliations.
The ballot must be endorsed with the
initials of two Judges and marked, fold
ed and voted as at other elections.
The provisions of the general election
law as to false registration, defacing
posted lists, giving out of ballots, ar
rangement of polling room and boxes,
regulation at polling places, crowds within
100 feet of the polling place, challeng-
ing, manner of voting, spoiled ballots,
assistance in marking ballots, physical
disability, secrecy of ballot, electioneer-
ing within feet of entrance to polling
room, right of employees to be absent
from work to vote without FORGETTING
wages, violation of the law and penal
ties, are made a part of the primary
law.