The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-31
|BE CAREFUL ON
| PRIMARY DAY
PROVISIONS OF LAW REGARDING
MANNER OF CONDUCTING
THE ELECTIONS ARE
VERY STRICT

Many of those who have given car
full study to the primary law under
which the election OF Sept. will be
conducted are OF the opionion that the
election inspectors win have cause "a
throw out many of the ballots voted
because of violation OF one or more OF
the complex regulations laid down for
the manner OF conducting the election
In many respects, this is the strict-
est election law ever enacted In Mich
igan and number of Its provisions
are entirely new to the voters OF ilns
| locality. II seems as If every precau-
tion has been taken to prevent fraud
er coercion at the polls on election
day.
Upon going to the polls every voter
will be asked with which party he Is
enrolled. and after having satisfied
the inspectors that he is an enrolled
voter he will be given ballot con-
tanning the names of the candidates
for all the offices to be nominated
by his party. The voter must then
retire to booth and while there. con-
cealed from view, mark an X opposite
the name of each candidate for whom
he wishes to vote. Before giving out
the ballot the inspector must take the
name of the voter, his political party
and the pumber of the ballot given
him. When the ballot is returned
folded so that only the number is Wis
ible, the inspector must make sure
that the voter has returned the same
ballot that was given him. and II II
is not the same ballot the inspector
must reject II and such voter will
not be allowed to vote at ALL
One of the most startling provi-
sion of law Is the following: IF any
enrolled voter shall. after marking his
ballot so expose It to any person as
10 reveal the name or any candidate
voted for thereon. such ballot shall
he rejected and such voter forfeits the
right to vote at the election. and the
occurrence shall be noted in the poll
book opposite the voters name."
In order to know for whom he is
voting. the voter must be able to read
his ballot, as the order in which the
names of the candidates appear on
the ballots will not be the same on
any two consecutive ballots given out
by the inspectors. For instance, on one
ballot Osborn's name will appear
first in the list OF candidates for gov
ernor. on the next Kelley's name will
be first and Musselman's name first
on the next. This means that a polit-
ical boss can no longer tell his hench-
men to put an X opposite the first
name or the last, but that every voter
must determine for himself, without
any assistance, which candidates
whose names are on the ballot he
wishes to vote for.
Another section OF the law makes
It n misdemeanor for anyone to soil
cit votes within 100 feet of a polling
place while the polls are open on cleo
ton day. Any person who offers or
gives to another Intoxicating liquors
within any polling place In also gull
ty of misdemeanor.
tors to cause instruction ballots to
be printed for each party on yellow
paper, and to distribute said instruc-
ton ballots in the same manner and
at the time provided for the distribu-
tion Of the official primary ballots
AS the polls will be open until
o'clock in all cities over 5000 and
until 10 o'clock in Detroit, the results
of the primary election will probably
not be definitely known until some
time Wednesday and possibly not ur>
Ill Thursday This will certainly be
tn ase If the race between any OF
the candidates is a close on. as, In
several instances, II promises to be.
Primary Vote Two Years Ago
The vote on governor in the upper
peninsula at the Republican primar-
les two years ago was as follows:
Warner. Bradley. Earle