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

So"ASy ouuAVOE VI Tue county wherein
the officers are to be elected; certi-
ficates Of nomination for municipal Of
fcers shall be fled with the clerk or
auditor of the municipality.
No certificate of nomination shall
contain the names of more than one
majority candidate and one minority
cadidate for the same Office to. be
filed, except where two or more offic-
ers of the same class are to be elected
from the state or district at large, and
then the number of each majority and
minority candidates shall equal the
number Of ofiicers to be elected.
Sec. Is. Certificates of nomination
to be filed with the secretary of state
shall be filed not less than thirty days
before the day fixed by law for the
primary election of the persons in
nomination. Certificates to be filed
with the county auditor and the city
auditor or clerk shall be filed not less
than twenty days before the primary
election. Certificates sent by register
ed mail shall be deemed filed two days
after they are mailed and registered.
The registry receipt for certificates
mailed to the secretary of state shall
be filed with the county auditor of the
county where the convention was
held.
All certificates of nomination filed
as herein provided shall be open to
public inspection under proper rules
and safeguards by the officer having
them in charge.
Sec. 10. At least twenty-five days
before any primary election to nomin-
ate candidates for presidential cleo
tors, United States senators, men,
Der of congress or any state or dis
trict Office, the secretary Of state shall
certify to the auditor of each and everN
county within which any of the cleo
tors may by law vote for the candi-
dates for such Office, the name and
postoffice address of each majority and
each minority nominee for such Office
as specified in the certificates Of no.
mination filed with him.
At least ten days before any prim-
airy election to nominate candidates
for public Office the county auditor
shall cause to be published in one or
more newspapers within the county
the nominations certified to him I'M
der the two preceding sections. The
auditor shall make such publication
daily until the primary election in
counties where daily newspapers are
published; but where no daily news
paper is published in the county the
two publications in each weekly news
paper in the county will be suffic-
lent; in any county where no news
paper is published, written or printed
notices shall be posted in three pub
lie places in each voting precinct ten
days before the primary election.
See. 20. Should any vacancy occur
on the primary election ballot by
death, refusal to accept the conven-
ton nominations or otherwise, such
vacancy may be filled by the county,
district or state committee as the case
may be, of the party on whose ticket
the vacancy exists. The chairman
and secretary of the committee shall
make and file with the secretary of
state or county auditor, as the case
may be, certificate Of nomination
stating all the facts required in an
original convention certificate of NOM
ination, and in addition the fact of
a vacancy and the cause thereof and
that the nomination is made by the
committee to fill such vacancy, and
thereupon the name of the person so
nominated to fill vacancy shall be
certified, published and printed upon
the primary election ballot the same
as regular nominee. but failure to
publish the name shall not invalidate
the election.
Should the nomination Of substi-
tute or to fill a vacancy be made after
the primary election ballots are print
ed the officer whose duty it is to have
the tickets printed shall cause to be
printed upon sufficient number of
stickers &, the name of the substitute
candidate. which stickers shall be dis
tributed to the inspectors of election
and by them be affixed to the ballot
before the same is delivered to the
voters.
Nominations made by committee
when there is not sufficient time to
prepare and distribute the stickers
above mentioned is void.
Sec. 81. The primary election shall
be conducted in all respects the same
as the general election; but no cleo
tor shall be allowed to vote the ticket
of more than one political party.
The ballots and all necessary blanks
and books for the primary election
shall be printed and prepared and dis
tributed at the public expense in the
manner provided by law and paying
the expenses Of the general election.
The ballots for each different poll
tical party shall be printed on a sep
arate sheet and the names of canii-
dates of one party only shall be print
ed thereon, and the same tint of PAPER
shall not be used for any two parties.
At the top Of the ballot shall be
printed the name of the party, in the
left hand column the name of the Of
flee to be voted for, and opposite
thereto in the same line or space in
the right hand column the names of
all candidates for that office. The
name or names of the majority can
didates shall be printed at the top of
the space and those of the minority
candidates below, with square of
black lines at the end OF each name,
in which the voter shall mark his
choice.