The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-26
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Election Board Rules on All
Petitions.
NEARLY ALL WERE DEFECTIVE
Warning is Given to Pros,
pective Candidates.
Secretary of State Ordered the Board
To Use Its Own Judgment and This
Privilege Had to be Exercised Quite
Freely.

AT q regular meeting OF the board
of elections last night it was decided
that all petitions for nominations in
the coming primaries have been
properly filed and all were formally
accepted despite the many slight er-
rors made by candidates In securing
the petitions and filing them.
The board went over the subject
at some length. Some petitions have
part OF the signatures in pencil
some were not filed until Aug IT,
Others were found defective in some
way or the other Had the board
lived up to the strict letter OF the
law about one third of the petitions
fled for city nominations would have
been thrown out and fully one-half
of the papers filed by country can
didates would have met the same
fate. But the secretary OF state
recently made ruling In which
boards OF elections were advised to
use their own Judgment in deciding
the questions arising at this time
and warning them that they would
be unable to uphold the strict word
ing of the primary law.
Deputy clerk, J. w. Hungate said
today that the board decided 1t bet
ter to merely overlook the minor de-
fects in the various petitions and to
allow all to be filed and the names
to go on the primary tickets. But
the board gave notice that next
spring unless the coming Legislature
changes the primary laws, 1t will be
necessary for candidates to fulfill
the exact requirements or their Pc
titions will not be accepted.
One candidate, Joseph Setter, who
wants the Democratic nomination for
constable in Pleasant township. did
not file his petition until Aug. 20. The
board looked 1t over and found that
he had fulfilled all of the require
ments in regard tn signatures in ink,
having the affidavit properly taken
and everything else except the filing.
It developed that Mr.. Setter had been
misinformed about the filing and
gave the paper to the township clerk
previous to the seventeenth OF August.
Learning his mistake on the twen-
tleth he brought. the paper to the ell
ection board Office. The board decided
to accept it and Mr.. Settlers name
will go on the ticket.
The primaries will be held Sept. z
the polls being open from $50 a. m.
to $3.50 p. m. the same as at any regu-
lar election. The election officials,
clerks, judges ETC.. who served In the
last election will serve at the pri-
marles. There will be a meeting OF
these on Sept, 6 at the various poll
ing places, chairmen selected and the
chairmen authorized to secure the
supplies from the board of elections.
New election officials will be ap-
pointed for the November election.
There will be two registration days
previous to the election. Registrators
TO serve on these days will be ap-
pointed by the board at a meeting
which will be held next Wednesday
night.
Clerk Hungate is exceptionally
busy just now getting the tickets In
the various townships ready for the
printer. Another duty that requires
much OF his time is the transferring
OF voters who have moved from one
precinct to another since tn last
election and the registering Of new
voters. Mr.. Hungate says that the
number OF new voters. men who have
come to Marion since last fall, Is
nothing less than remarkable and
shows that the city Is once more at
tanning q steady rats Of growth.