Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1909-04-29
Extracts From Primary Law.

those counties where the Crawford
County System is already in force:
All candidates for office must be
nominated by direct vote of the reg
istercd voters or by county or dis
trict convention, the delegates to
which convention shall be elected at
primary election held in the pre-
cinct, district or county, in accord
ance with the provisions OF this law.
Primaries shall be held not later
than the second Monday in Septem-
Der in each year.
Three weeks notice of the prima
ries shall be given by publication in
some newspaper, which notice shall
state the place and hour Of holding
the primary.
Polls may be open in each district
from 8 a. m. to 6p. M. but must be
open at least four hours.
The Supervisors Of Election shall
cause to be made list of the quail
| fled voters for each district or pre-
cinct.
The primaries shall be conducted
in each precinct or district by three
Judges and two clerks, same to be
paid by the county.
The Democratic Election Super
visors appoint the judges and clerks
for the Democratic primaries and the
Republican Supervisors appoints the
Republican judges and clerks for
each precenct or district.
Ballots shall be printed by the
governing political body Central
Committee or county ofiices) with
the names of candidates arranged
alphabetically and according to sur
name on Opaque white paper of uni
form size, and not less than twice the
number of registered voters and shall
be delivered by the Central Commit
tee to the return Judge in every pre-
cinct or district at least three days
before the day of the primary election
and said committee shall print for
any candidate as many ballots as de-
sired at the expense of said candidate.
Primaries shall be held in the vi
cinity of the place of holding general
elections.
Gummed envelopes of uniform size
in number 25 per cent more than the
estimated vote of the party in each
district shall he furnished by the COM
mittec.
No person can vote in the primary
unless he be registered voter in the
district in which he desires to vote.
(According to the opinion of Attor-
ney General Straus, all those who
will he of age before the next general
election will be entitled to vote at a
primary meeting.)
No person shall vote in the pri'
mary election of more than one party
and not more than once at any prl'
mary.
t Any registered voter who at the
last preceding election voted for thu
electors for President or Vice Presi
dent of the United States, or Gov
ernor of the State or Comptroller OF
other State candidates, or the county
candidates of the party at whose pri
mary he tenders his ballot, or regis
tered voter who shall attain the ag
of 21 prior to the next election OF
who having failed to vote at such las
election, declares his intention Il
vote at the next election for the cand
dates named by the party at who's
election he tenders his ballot shall b
deemed member of such party an(
entitled to vote at the primary.
The voter shall prepare his ballo
by cancelling, using black pencil
the names of those for whom he doe
not desire to vote by running o
marking a pencil line or lines throug
said names; and the names of thos
voted for are to be indicated by tn
absence of any cancellation OF thel
names.
l. Each ballot cast shall be hande
by the voter to one OF the judges
folded so that the contents there(
can not be seen, and the Judge {
election 80 receiving such ballot sha
- place the same in plain white opaqu
envelope and seal the same and d'
post such envelope SO sealed in tf
} ballot box in the presence of the vote
As soon as the polls are closed tt
iudges and clerks shall canvass I'll
vote and then seal the ballot box.