Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-23
CITY OF GARDINER
OFFICIAL NOMINATING BALLOT.
PRELIMINARY ELECTION.

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Attest: City Clerk.
Sec. IA. The name of each person
who has filed Il statement and accom-
| panying petition. rs aforesaid, and his
| residence and the title and term OF
| the office for which he is candidate
| for nomination shall be printed on the
| face of the said ballots. and the names
| of no other candidates, except as
| otherwise provided in section twenty
| four of this act, shall be printed
! thereon. The names of candidates
shall be printed in lists arranged in
alphabetical order in single column
with the titles of the respective Of
fees. Blank spaces shah be left at
the end Of each list of candidates for
| nomination for the different offices,
equal to the number to be nominated
therefor. in which the voter may in
sert the name of any person not
printed on the ballot for whom he
desires to.vote for nomination to such
| Office. There shall be printed on the
said ballots the names of the several
departments Of which the officers to
he nominated shall, il elected, be the
heads Immediately below the titles OF
the respective offices. There shall also
| be pint "a on the said ballots four lines
| forming a square Of half an inch i'm
l mediately To the lett of the name of
| each candidate and OF the spaces left
| for the insertion OF additional names,
| To receive the cross of the voter
There shall also be printed on the
said ballots the following directions
to voters: "'Fo vote for any person
| Al. with - 11Ionly
| Gil (x) in the square at the left of
the name Of the person You wish to
vote for; printed IN bold faced type
directly below the heading; the word
| "fof" immediately before the title of
each ofiic" for which there are candi-
dates to be nominated; and the words
vote for one vote for two" as the
conditions may require, on the same
line with and directly following each
title.
Sec. 10 ~ Ne ballot used at any
annual or special city election or at
airy preliminary election for nomina-
tons shall have printed thereon any
party or political designation or mark,
and there shall not be appended to
the name Of any candidate any such
party or political designation or mark
or anything showing low he vas nom
mated or indicating his views or opin-
ions, nor shall any mark, character
or device whatsoever be printed on the
said ballots, except as provided in
sections IL and IA of this act
ca Ballots for all annual and Spe-
cial city elections shall be printed in
| exact conformity With the rules for
printing of ballots for preliminary clec-
tons for nominations laid down in
sections Is and IA of this act. with the
exceptions that the words "nominat-
ing" and preliminary" shall be omit
ted from the headings of face and
back. and that the additions specified
in sections tWentyfour, twenty five
aNd twenty-siX of this act shall be
made when required.
Sec. 16.sO The provisions of law
in relation to nominations by caucus
shall not be applicable to any munich
pal nomination or election.
G) Before every preliminary cleo
ton for nominations the city council
shall cause to be made a registration
OF voters to vote at such preliminary
election for nominations. and at the
city election for which the said pre-
liminary election for nominations is
held. Such registration shall be made
in accordance with the provisions of
the state law governing registration
and 1t shall include all those who be-
tween the time when the registration
books for such registration shall be
closed and the date of the city election
for which such preliminary election
for nominations is held will become
eligible tor registration.
Sec. Il. The election officers shall
Immediately, upon the closing of the
polls at preliminary elections for nom
inations, count the ballots and ascer-
tain the number of votes cast in the
voting places where they ofliciate. for
each person for nomination to each
office, ard shall make return thereof
to the city clerk forthwith upon
blanks to be furnished as in city
elections.
Sec. Is, On the first day, not being
a legal holiday, following such pre-
liminary election for nominations, the
city clerk shall canvass the said re-
turns so received from the election of
ficers and shall forthwith determine
the result vi SUCH canvass anu PUBLISH
the same in one daily newspaper pub
lished in the city, if there be any;
otherwise in the nearest daily news
paper published in kcnnebcc county.
Sec. 10. The tao persons receiving
at a preliminary election for nominal
tons the greatest number Of votes
for nomination to an office shall be the
only candidates for that Office whose
names shall be printed on the official
ballots 20 he used al the annual or
special city election, for the making
OF nomina tons for which such pre-
lin.inlry election for nominations was
held.
Sec. 20. On The tenth and two sue
cecding days. not being Sundays or
legal holidays. preceding the day fixed
Tor an animal or special city election
| the city clerk shall cause to be pub
| iiShed in one daily newspaper pub
ilsied III the city, if there be any,
Otherwise in the nearest daily news
paper published in Kcnnebec county. n
caii for such election and shall amend
thereto the names and residences of
the candidates nominated at the sDe-
| clal election for nominations, bn1.I %,