The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-07-24

Each tally sheet, or the first sheet
OF each tally book to be furnished,
shall be headed, Tally sheet for. -.
(name of political
parity ............ (name of city or
vlllage) ............ County, ......
(ward) .......... election precinct,
for primary election held ..........
(date)."
The names of candidates shall be
placed on the tally sheets in the order
in which they appear on the official
ballots, and in each case have the
proper party designation at the head
thereof.
Returns of Primary Elections.
Sec. 81. In making out the returns
of the primary election in the several
election precincts, the same shall be
done and all matter pertaining thereto
conducted in accordance with the pro-
visions of the general election laws for
the returns of general elections, ex.
cept that the first choice votes, second
choice votes and total votes received
by each candidate for each office shall
be shown.
Party Committeeman, How Selected.
Sec. %. At the September primary
each voter may write in the space left
on the ticket for that purpose the
name of one qualified elector of the
precinct for member of the party
county committee. The one having the
| highest number of votes shall be such
committeeman of such party for such
precinct. The party committee of
each county shall consist of the pre-
cinct committeeman from the several
precincts of such county. The present
party organization both state and
county of the several parties shall con-
tinue until their successors are elected
under the provisions of this act. Each
| political party organization shall have
the power to make it's own rules and
regulations, call conventions, elect
delegates to conventions, state and ma
tional, fill vacancies on the ticket, pro-
vide for the nomination of presidential
electors, and perform all other func-
lions inherent to such organizations,
the same as though this act had not
been passed: Provided, That in no in.
stance shall any convention have the
power to nominate any candidate to be
voted for at any primary election.
City committeeman may be elected at
municipal elections in the manner pro-
vided in this section, as near as may
be.
Plurality Required to Nominate.
| Sec. %. Candidates for party Of
fees who receive a plurality of the
votes cast for such candidates shall
be the party nominees of such party.
except as to offices where first and
second choice votes are cast, and as
to such offices, If no candidate shall
have received more than 40 per cent.
OF the first choice votes cast, then, and
in that event canvass shall be made
OF the second choice votes received by
candidates for said office at said pri-
mary election, and said second choice
votes shall be counted with and added
to the first choice votes received by
each and every candidate for such Of
flee at the primary election; and the
candidate receiving the highest num-
Der of first and second choice votes
shall be the nominee for such office of
the political party represented by him.
In the event that any candidate for
an office shall have received 40 per
cent. or more of the first choice votes
OF his political party cast at said pri.
mary election, the candidate receiving
the highest number of first choice
votes shall be declared the nominee of
his party to such position, without
reference to the second choice votes.
In the event that there are more
than one position of the same kind to
be filled and more candidates of any
political party receive majorities Of
the votes of such party cast at such
election than there are positions to be
filled, then in that event the number
of candidates equal to the number of
positions to be filled receiving the
highest number of votes shall be the
nominees of such political party for
such position.
State CanvassinQ Board.
Sec "a. The canvassing of the vote
and the returns of reports of the pri-
mary elections as to candidates for
state offices, United States senators
and representatives in congress, and
any other candidate whose district ex-
tends beyond the limits of a single
county, shall be done by canvassinG
board consisting of the Secretary OF
State, State Treasurer and State
Auditor. Said state canvassing board
shall meet at the office of the Secre-
tary of State on the Bird Tuesday at
ten o'clock a. m. next after the Sep
TENDER primary. AS soon as said board
has canvassed said vote it shall file q
certificate with the Secretary of State
which certificate shall show the vote
Of each candidate of each political
party for each office. A copy of such
certificate shall be published once In
some newspaper published at the state
capital. which publication shall be
made by the Secretary of State i'm
mediately after the same is filed in his
| office. The vote for all county, city
and municipal officers shall be can
vassed and the returns made by the
same officer and in the same manner
as returns of the votes cast at general
| elections are by law now required to
be made. Such canvassing board and
other officers canvassing votes cast at
such primary elections shall file with
| the proper officer statement and re-
port of such canvass, which statement
and report of said primary election
shall contain:
First.-A statement duly certified to
| containing the names of all candidates
voted for at the primary election with
the number Of votes received, and also