The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
The White / rnnary Bill

Section 1. This act shall be literally
construed, and no mere technical
error either in the giving of any no.
tice, the marking of any ballots, the
conducting of the primary election or
certifying the results thereof shall be
allowed to defeat the will of the cleo
tors expressed.
Sec. 2. On the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in August next pre-
ceding the general election, an cleo
ton shall be held in the several dis
tricts of the state which shall be
known as the primary election; and
all candidates of political parties for
Office to be voted for at the next en-
suing general election shall be NOM
mated at said primary election, viz:
Presidential electors, members of
congress, all state and county and dis
trict officers, including judges of the
supreme and district courts, menu
bers of the legislative assembly and
all elective city officers in cities hav-
ing a population of ten thousand or
over, in the manner provided by this
act.
Whenever United States senator
is to be elected, nominations for that
Office shall be made in like manner,
and the persons so nominated shall
be considered the candidates of their
respective parties before the legisla-
tive assembly whose duty it shall be
to elect a United States senator.
Every person legally qualified to
vote at the general election shall be
Qualified to vote at the primary cleo
ton; but females may vote for can
didates for whom they are legally
qualified to vote at the general cleo
ton, and no others.
The provisions of this act shall not
apply to special elections.
Sec. 8. Every election precinct for
the general election shall be an cleo
ton precinct for the primary cleo
ton; and every public officer required
by law to perform any act or duty in
respect to the general election, at the
time herein specified therefor, except
where such acts or duties are changed
or modified by this act.
All persons nominated to any Office
as herein provided shall be the can
didates of their respective parties at
the next ensuing general election for
that office.
Sec. 4. The secretary of state shall
during the month of April preceding
a general election cause to be de-
livered to the county auditor of each
and every county in the state notice
specifying all the officers to be NOM
mated at the next primary election
under this act.
The several county auditors shall
cause such notice to be published as
provided by section SIP of the Revised
Codes of 1899.
Sec. 5. In so fas as the same are
consistent with the purpose of this act,
the following sections of chapter 8 of
the political code, Revised Statutes
of 1899, entitled Elections" as the
same have been or may hereafter be
modified by subsequent legislation,
are hereby made applicable to primary
elections and primary election ballots
under this act, to wit: Sections 4S1,
4S3, 4s4, 4s5, 1856, 4s7, 4Ss, 4Ss, 1872,
1913, 494, 1876, 1876, 497, 499, 500, SOB,
504, sos, $40, 512, 513, 514, SIS, 517,
SIS, $40, $40, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526,
529, 531, 532, 533, 535, $50, 537, 545.
SAT, 54S, $40, $50, $50, 55S, $50, $50,
SCI and 562.
Sec. 6. A political party is an as
ISOLATION of qualified electors having
party name, and which has placed
in nomination candidates for at least
five state officers, and whose candi-
dates for such Offices received at least
five per cent of the total number of
votes cast for governor at the last
preceding general election.
A caucus Is an assemblage of the
qualified electors of one political party
residing within a town, city or cleo
ton precinct designated as caucus
district or precinct held within such
precinct for the purpose of electing
delegate or set q delegates to re-
present the precinct in a county or
district convention of the party.
A convention is an organized assem-
bly, of the delegates of political party
duly elected by caucuses or other con-
ventions for the purpose of placing
in nomination candidates to be voted
for at the primary election or to elect
delegates to another convention.
Sec. Z. Every caucus of any poll
tical party to elect delegates shall be
held at the hour of 2 o'clock in the af-
ternoon on the Tuesday following the
first Monday in April next preceding
a general election, and the delegates
elected thereat shall represent the
caucus precinct in all conventions of
the party electing them for a term
of two years and until their success
sors are elected, in all party conven-
tons in which the precinct is entitled