The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1910-06-16
NEW PRIMARY.
Summary of Salient Features of
Direct Primary Law Condensed
for the Benefit of ca andidates
and Voters.


The next primary election will be held
on the last Tuesday of next August. Each
candidate for a county office, or some
qualified voter in his behalf, must file
with the county auditor, at least thirty
days and not more than sixty days before
the primary election, nomination paper
in substantially the following form:
Il, the undersigned, being qualified
elector of ...... precinct, ~ County,
State Of Idaho, and member of the /.
party, hereby nominate -. who resides
in the town of. $50, .... precinct
County, State of Idaho, as a candidate
for the office of ~. to be voted for at
the primary to be held on the 80. day
OF 49,, and certify that he is le-
gally qualified to fill said office, and re-
presents the principles Of said party.
And I hereby declare that / intend to
support said candidate for said office,
and that | have signed no other nomina-
ton paper for candidate for the same
Office, and believe that said person would
accept said nomination"
This paper must be subscribed and
sworn to before some officer authorized to
administer oaths; it is then filed with the
county auditor accompanied by a fee of
~ for any Office with salary of $500 or
less. If the salary exceeds $500 per an
mum, an additional sum is required equal
to one per cent of the amount in excess
OF $500 per annum. No fee is required if
the nomination paper is accompanied by
petition in favor of the candidate,
signed by at least five per cent Of the
voters for the party's candidate for gov
ernor at the 'ast general election, taken
tro2i at least one-fourth of the election
precincts in the county. Within five days
after filing these papers, the candidate
must file an acceptance of his nomination
signed by himself. The above also applies
to congressional and state Offices. excent
that lees and papers are delivered to the
secretary of state, and that for these Of
hces the petitions must be signed by three
per cent OF the party voters of at least
four counties.
Not less than twenty-five days before
the date Of the primary, the secretary of
state shall send to each county auditor of
the state a list of the legal candidates with
their post office addresses, party designa-
tions and offices for which each is candi-
date. These items, each county auditor
shall cause to be published, together with
the date OF the primary, the hours during
which the polls viii be open and the place
OF election, which shall be the regular
polling place of each precinct. The
names Of candidates for each Office shall
appear in alphabetical order according to
the letters of the surname.
Election notices are to be published at
least once a week for two successive
weeks IN two newspapers published with
IN said county, representing the two poll
tical parties that received the largest vote
at the last general election, if there are
two such papers published within the
county, if not, then in two newspapers
representing such parties, which shall
nave an extensive general circulation
within said county. Each county auditor
snail have printed for each political party
separate primary ballot, uniform in size.
color and printing. Each voter receives
ticket of each of the parties but can vote
ohly one ticket; the others are to be
thrown into the waste ballot box after
voting. If a voter fails to vote for the
candidate for certain office on his own
ticket and wishes to support a candidate
for the same office on another ticket, he
may write his name in the proper space