Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-24
FACTS ABOUT The
PRIMARY ELECTION
MANY VOTES WILL BE LOST
THROUGH IGNORANCE
Voter Should Be Careful Split
Tickets Will Not Be Counted on
September 4-VOtGr Must Con
fine Himself to Candidates of
Own Party.

A voter who splits his ticket on
primary election day will find that it
is not the same as though he did on
election day. The primary election
law allows Of no split tickets and the
voter must confine himself to the can
didates of his own party, or if he goes
to the other ticket for choice, that
is the ticket which Will be counted
and not his his own party ticket, as
he can hand but one ballot to the in
spectors. The balance of the ticket
goes into the waste basket and is des-
troyed. The voter should remember
that the primary election is simply a
caucus of the parties held at the same
time. If he bears that in mind he can
readily see that he can not select
names on two ticets. The voter is
allowed, however. to vote for some
person not on the ticket by writing his
name in the blank space left for that
purpose. The instructions to voters
printed at the head of the ticket are
as follows:
TO vote for person whose name
is printed on the ballot mark a X in
the square to the RIGHT of the name
of the person for whom you desire to
vote. To vote for a person whose
name is not printed on the ballot
write his name in the blank space
provided for that purpose. "
There is no square or circle at the
head of the primary ticket and the
voter must mark an X at the right of
each candidate for whom he desires
to vote, but vote can be cast only
for one candidate for any office. The
ballots, one of each party, will be
stitched together at the top made Up
of several parties including democra-
tic, republican, prohibition, social
democratic and nonpartisan To i'll
ustrate: If a republican desires to
vote, he is given the slips stitched to-
gether. He takes them to booth and
places an X after the names of all
those on the republican ticket for
whom he desires to vote He then
tears the republican slip off and
hands it to the election Inspector.
The other parts he gives to another
election officer and it is placed in a
box and later destroyed. The ballot
is secret and no one knows how or for
whom you vote.
If any elector write upon his ticket
the name of any person who is a can
didate for the same office upon some
other ticket than that upon which his
name is SO written, this ballot shall
be counted for such person only as a
candidate of the party upon whose
ticket his name is written, and shall
in no case be counted for such person
as a candidate upon any other ticket.
At the bottom of the ballot space is
left wherein to write the names of
three persons to constitute precinct
committee. Of all the votes thus
cast, the three having the highest
number of these votes will constitute
the precinct committee, and the one
having the largest number of votes
will be the chairman, and the inspec-
tors official returns will give the
name and address of each party COM
mittee thus chosen. The county
assembly, senatorial and congressional
committees are constructed from the
precinct committees
Don't try to split at the primaries.
Vote straight.