The log cabin Democrat., 1909-12-20
PRIMARY ELECTION LAW
NEW STATUTE WHICH WILL
GOVERN ALL PRIMARY
ELECTIONS.


held in this county January A
Section /. Whenever any political
party in this state shall, by primary
election, nominate any person to be
come a candidate at any general cleo
ton, regular or special, or before the
legislature for United States senator,
or for congress or any legislative, ju-
dicial, state, district, county, town
ship, or municipal office, the said pri-
mary election shall be, and is hereby,
made legal election.
Section 2. The county central com
mittee of the party holding said pri-
mary election shall select the judges
and clerks to serve at said primary
election, and said judges and clerks
shall possess all qualifications requir-
ed of judges and clerks of general
elections. Provided that in said pri-
mary election the judges and clerks
shall all be of the same political par
ty for which said primary election is
held.
Section 8. The judges holding such
primary election, before entering upon
their duties, shall qualify before some
officer duly authorized to administer
oaths, and they then shall have power
to administer oaths to the clerks for
the said primary election and to vot-
Iers when deemed necessary to ascer-
tain qualifications of electors. If any
judge or clerk shall perform any of
the duties of their respective positions
before taking and subscribing to the
oath provided for in this section, he
shall be deemed guilty of misde--
meanor, and upon conviction shall be
fined in any sum not less than $25 nor
more than 500.
Section A. Any judge, or clerk,
serving at any such primary election,
who shall in any manner falsify the
returns of the same, or knowingly
make a false count of the ballots cast,
or aid or abet any such act of any
other person, or knowingly permit
such to be done, shall be deemed gull
ty of a felony, and upon convic-
ition thereof shall be confined in the
state penitentiary at hard labor for a
period of not less than six months,
| lor more than five years.
Section 5. Any person who shall
solicit or accept for himself or for
another any gift or donation of any
kind or character from person who
| is a candidate for any Office, or who
| is candidate for nomination to be-
come candidate for any office, such
person soliciting or accepting such
gift or donation shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor, and upon conviction
shall be punished of fine of not less
| than $25 nor more than $500, and each
J donation or gift solicited or accepted
shall constitute a separate olfense.
Section 6. Any person who is a
candidate for any office in this state,
or a candidate for the nomination to
become a candidate at any general
election, who shall give or offer to
give any gift or donation to any per-
son during the times that he is a candi
date, such candidate, giving or offer
ing to give, shall bedeemed guilty of
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
shall be fined in any sum not less than
$25 nor more than $500.
Section 7. Any person who shall
become candidate before any pri-
mary election in this state for any dis
trict or county office shall, within fif-
teen days after such primary election
is held, file with the county clerk of
his home county, a verified itemized
statement of all expenses incurred by
him, which is in any way connected
with his campaign, covering the entire
time that such person is a candidate.
Section s. Any person who shall
become candidate before any pri-
mary election in this state for a NOM
Iination to become a candidate at any
general election for any state office,
for congress or to become a candidate
for United States senator before the
legislature, shall, within thirty days
after such primary election is held,
file with the secretary of state veri
fled itemized account of all campaign
expenses incurred by him during such
time as he may have been a candidate
before such primary, Any failure or
refusal of any candidate to comply
with sections Z and 8, as herein set
out, shall be regarded as a violation
of this act, and such candidate so of
Tending, shall, upon conviction, be
fined in any sum not less than $25
nor more than 500.
Section 9. Any person voting in
any primary election not possessing
all the qualifications of an elector, as
required under the general election
laws of this state, or who shall cast
more than one ballot in the said pri-
mary election, or accept any money
or its equivalent for his vote, or use
any money or it's equivalent to infu-