Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-01-28

shall keep in Alphabetical order list
of the names Of all persons voting
at said election, and shall return one
list as now required and one tally
sheet that shall be a part of the rec
ord, and deliver the other list to the
board of registration Within thirty
days following any primary election.
No registration of votes shall be re-
quired under this act to vote at any
primary election. ~
The poll lists so kept at a primary
election and delivered to the boards of
registration shall take the place of the
first registration of the voters now re-
quired, and notice only shall be given
of the date of the second day of regis.
tration, which shall be held and con-
Quoted as now provided, and no other
shall be required to vote at the gen
eral election following.
Sec. 81. The county canvassing
board shall be composed of the clerk
of the district court, county auditor.
chairman of the board of county COM
missioners and the chairman of the
county committee of the two political
parties that cast the highest votes for
governor at the preceding general cleo
ton. @,s.
The members Of said board shall
meet in lae county auditors office in
the court house at 10 O'Clock on the
eighth day after any primary election,
and shall proceed, after taking the
usual oath of Office, to open and pub
licly canvass the primary election re-
turns made to the county auditor.
Any three members of said board
shall constitute quorum, and are ALL
thorized to make the canvass herein
provided and to certify to the results
thereof. t- f..
Sec. ~. The canvassing board shall
make and prepare a statement, the
same to be signed by said board and
filed in the office of the county auditor
as follows: First. A statement con-
tanning the names of all the candi-
dates voted for at the primary cleo.
ton, with the number of votes received
by each and for what office, said
statement to be made as to each DO
litical party or principle separately.
Second. A statement of the names of
the persons or candidates of each DO
litical party who are nominated, to-
wit: Those persons or candidates of
such political party or principle who
received the highest number Of votes
for the respective Office, and where
there is more than one person to be
elected toa given Office at the ensuing
general election, there shall be in
cluded in said statement of nomina-
ton the names of SO many candidates
of such party receiving the next high
est number of votes for that office as
there are persons to be elected to such
office at said ensuing general election.
Said statement shall in like manner
be made separately as to each political
party. Third: A statement Of the
whole number of electors registered
and the number Of ballots cast, men
and women separately, at such pri-
mary election. Fourth: A separate
statement shall be made OF the votes
cast for United States Senator, men,
Der of congress, presidential electors.
state officers, judges Of the supreme
court and district courts and members
of the legislative assembly, which shall
be transmitted to the secretary of
state as provided in this act. Fifth:
1t shall be the duty of the county
auditor upon the completion of the
canvass, to mail or deliver in person,
to each candidate so nominated for
any county or district Office, a notice
of such fact, and that his name will be
put upon the official ballot, except as
otherwise provided. He shall, also,
cause a copy of the findings Of said
board to be published in a newspaper
at the county seat, If sueh there be.
Sec. %. It shall be the duty of the
county auditor of each county, under
his official seal, excepting as provided
In section "a of this act, to return to
the secretary Of state on or before the
third Tuesday of August following
any primary election, certified alb
stract, under separate political desig-
nation or principle, of the number of
votes cast in his county for every can
didate for nomination for United States
senator, member of congress, presiden-
tial electors, state officers, Judge of the
supreme and district courts and mem
bers Of the legislative assembly. He
shall seal up such abstracts and with
out delay transmit them to the sec
Rotary of state by registered mail.
Sec. "a. When two or more coun-
ties are embraced in one legislative
district, the respective county audi
tors shall attend at the office of the
county auditor of the senior county
of such district, within fifteen DAYS
OF primary election, and in conjunc-
ton with the auditor of the senior
county shall compare the votes cast in
the several counties comprising such
district; and such auditors shall Inn
mediately make out certificates of
nomination for the persons of each
political party or principle having the
highest number of votes In such dis
trict for members of the legislative
assembly, as provided in section %
Of this act, which certificates OF NOM
lnation shall be forwarded without de-
lay to the secretary of state by regis
tered mail, by the county auditor of
the senior county who shall give no.
tice In writing, to all the members of
the Legislative assembly nominated in
such district.
Sec. 25. For the purpose Of can
vassing and ascertaining the result of
any primary election, the state board