Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-27
RULES FOR PRIMARIES
Official PRONUNCIATION by Chair
man of Republican Board.
ELECTION OF DELEGATES
Balloting to Occur Under the Reg
ulations April Is.
ELIGIBILITY OF THE VOTERS
Polls to Be Kept Open During Hours
Yet to Be Determined.
Form of Ballot.

Sidney Bieber. chairman Of the election
/ board of the District. yesterday issued
the official call of the committee to the
republican voters Of the District. Rules
and regulations governing registration
and election were drafted by the members
| of the board. which includes, besides Mr.
| Bieber, Percy Crawford and George f.
| Collins. The communication addressed to
the republican voters Of the District OF
| Columbia Is as follows:
| 1--WE, the undersigned election board.
selected by the republican national COM
mittee to supervise the registration and
election of republican delegates and al
ternates from the District of Columbia
! to the republican national convention to
| be held at Chicago June Is. zoos. under
and by virtue of the authority vested in
US by said republican national committee.
do hereby adopt and establish the follow
ing regulations and arrangements for
| holding and governing said registration
| and election, namely:
Authority of the Board.
The election of delegates from the
District Of Columbia shall be held urder
the direction and supervision Of an cleo
Der. Mr. Percy Crawford and Mr.. George
F. Collins of the District of Columbia.
| The board shall have authority to fax
the date of said election, subject to prior
| provisions herein, and to arrange all de-
| tails incident thereto. and shall provide
for a registration of the votes cast. such
| registration to include the name and res
idence Of each voter.-Ofhcial call of the
| republican national committee, under date
Of December Z. 1917.
In accordance with the Official call.
| thirty days notice is hereby given that
| the registration and election of delegates
and alternates to the next republican ma
tional convention will take place Tuesday,
Every male citizen of the District OF
| Columbia twenty-one years of age or over
| who believes in the policies and principle.
SIDED in the Distret Of % for one
year next prior to the date OF the regis
tration. and has resided for two months
next prior thereto in his voting pre- precin1c,
where. shall have the right to vote.
The District of Columbia shall be di-
vided into twenty-five precincts CORE
known as the legislative districts. The
voting places shall be hereafter desig-
mated.
Appointment Of Judges.
"Prior to the election. this election
board shall appoint for each polling place
three persons Of known integrity as a
board of judges, whose duty it shall be
on the day of the registration and election
to determine the qualifications of the vot-
ers as herein prescribed, 10 receive, count
announce and return the ballots to a re-
turning board hereinafter provided for.
Said board Of judges shall choose one of
its members as chairman and another as
clerk.
The election board will. prior to the
election, select three voters. qualified as
-hereinbefore mentioned. as returning
board.
The polls shall be kept open during
such hours of the day as this election
board may hereinafter determine.
| mo person will be eligible to vote who
shall not have registered.
THE election board will furnish ballots
printed in p ain type. which will contain
the following words only:
| 80 For delegates and alternates to the
republican national convention at Chi
cago. ILL.,, June is, 1908. Delegates -.
Alternates -.
Qualifications of Voters.
Each board of judges shall ascertain
and determine the qualifications of any
person offering to register. II the right
to register and vote is challenged by any
person. said board Of judges shall at
once determine finally such PERSONS right
to register and cast a vote.
when any such challenge is made no
other vote shall be received by the board
until it shall have determined the quail
fication of the person whose right Is chal-
lenged.
Each board Of judges shall keep reg
istration record, upon which shall be en-
tered before the vote is deposited the
full name of the voter. his street and
number of his residence. No voter shall
be allowed to deposit his ballot until
such registration is fully completed.
ten minutes prior to the closing OF
the polls. the chairman of each board OF
judges shall announce that the polls will
be closed at the time hereafter to be fixed
by this board Of election.
AT the close Of the polls each board
Of judges shall open the boxes and openly
count the ballots cast IN the voting places
In which they are judges and make re-
turn thereof, to be signed by them or q
majority of them, which returns shall
state the names Of the persons for whom
ballots are cast, the number received by
each. and shall thereupon make public
declaration of the results.
CertiAcation by Judges.
The board of judges, or a majoriy of
it's members, Immediately after making
such public declaration, shall seal up all
the ballots. and over their names shall
address and deliver the same, duly GER
titled. together with the registration rec
ord, to the returning board within two
hours from the time of such sealing. In
no case shall the board of judges ad-
journ until its duties are completed.
The returning board shall choose one of
its members as chairman. and another as
clerk At the expiration of two hours
from the close Of the polls said returning
board shall convene to receive the returns
from the several boards of judges at such
place as may be hereafter designated.
Said returning board shall unseal the