Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-20
Uniform Primary
Law
Of Missouri
BE it enacted by the General Assembly
OF the State of Missouri nc folIo,vs.

BE It enacted by the General Assembly
of the State Of Missouri. as follows:
Section l. Hereafter all candidates
Tor elective offices shall be nominated
by a primary held in accordance with
this act. This act shall not apply to
special elections, to fill vacancies, nor
to county superintendent of schools,
to city officers not elected at a general
state election, to town, village and
school district officers.
Sec. 2. The primary shall be held
at the regular polling places in each
precinct on the first Tuesday of Au.
gust, 1908, and biennially thereafter,
for the nomination of all candidates
TO be voted for at the next November
election.
Sec. 8. AT least ninety days be.
fore the time of holding such August
primary the secretary of state shall
prepare and transmit to each county
clerk a notice, in writing, designating
the offices for which candidates are
to be nominated at such primary.
Sec. 4. Upon receipt of such notice,
such county clerk shall, not less than
ten days thereafter, publish so much
thereof as may be applicable to his
county, once each week, for six con-
secutive weeks, in at least two, and
not to exceed four, newspapers of gen
eral circulation, published in said
county.
Sec. 5. The name of no candidate
shall be printed upon an official bal
lot used at any primary unless at
least sixty days prior to such primary
a nomination paper shall have been
filed in his behalf, as provided in this
act, in substantially the following
form:
Form of Petition Required.
!, the undersigned, a qualified cleo
tor OF the CO... precinct of the town
of ......), or (the 49,. precinct of
the ....., ward of the city of ......),
county Of ...... and state of Missouri,
and a member of the ...... party,
hereby nominate who resides fat
No. ON street cftv or
......), or Tin the town of ......), !
in the county of ......, as a candidate
for the office of (here specify the of
feel tn he voted for a+ the
primary. to be held on the first Tines.
day of August, 1908, as representing
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declaration by the candidate. in which
he stated the apDlicant's fnll name
and residence, the office for which he
proposes as q candidate, and the marty
non whose ticket he is to be a candi-
date, shall be accented and filed bv
the proper official in lien of all other
nomination paper as reorired in this
act. Said declaration to be filed in
the same time and manner as is pro-
vided for the filing of other nominal
ton papers in this act
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sec b. All nomination papers, 'eX-
cept 1or county ofhces, snail nave
substantially the form written
Or printed at the top thereor' NO
signatures snail be counted unless
they be upon sheets, each having such
form written or printed at the top
Thereon.
Sec. Z. Each signer OF a nomination
paper snail sign put one such paper
for the same ofhce, and snail declare
hat he intends to support the candl- |
date named therein; ne snail add MS
residence, with the street and num-
per- II any, and the GATE OF signing I
Sec. 8. For all nominations, except I
state officers, all slgners OF each sepa-
ate nomination paper shall reside IN t
the same precinct. For state officers,
signers on each separate nomina-
ton paper shall reside IN the same {
county. me afndavit OF a quailned
shall be appended to each such I
nomination paper, stating that he Is +
personally acquainted with all persons {
who have signed the same, and that
be knows them to be electors OF that
precinct or county, a(s) the nomlna- )
tion papers shall require; that he