Bisbee daily review., 1912-09-21
NEW PRIMARY LAW IS
 SOMEWHAT CONFUSING
Election Polls Must Close at 6 O'clock in the Afternoon Under
 New Law

A warm controversy has been rag ing between election officials of the recent primary since the publication in the Review of a story calling at. tention to the fact that some of the voting places in the primary closed at o'clock and others at six o'clock on the afternoon of primary election day.
 Some precincts closed at 5 o'clock in accordance with the old territorial law and others in accordance with the new or amended law which pro vides that polls shall be closed at 6 o'clock.
 old Can stiIl Apply
 As the new law was passed with out an emergency clause it did not go into effect until ninety days after 1t was passed, so the old law still ap- piled and the officials who closed at , o'clock were in the right, says De- putty County Attorney Murry.
 The old law, paragraph No. 2354 (Sec. S3.) is as follows:
 The polls shall be open in every precinct not earlier than six nor later than eight o'clock a. m. on the day of the election and shall be closed at five o'clock D. m. The inspector sha q cause the election marshal to make proclamation of the opening of the poIl, also one hour, and thirty min utes, and fifteen minutes before it's close, and also at the moment of it's closing, and the inspector and two judges shall determine between them when the hour for closing has arriv- ed; provided. that any and all per sons who may at the moment of clos ing be inside of any booth making out a ballot preparatory to voting it shall be allowed five minutes to fill out and deposit such ballot, the same as if the polls were still onen"
 Law is Amended
 This is expressly amended, how. ever, by an Act amending section 2354 (Sec. S3.D of Chapter VII, Title XIX of the Revised Statutes of Ari. zona of l901," past by the last lexis. lature and reading as follows: The polls shall be opened in every | precinct not earlier than o'clock not l later than 6 o'clock a. m. on the day of the election. and shall be closed l ct o'clock p. m.
 The Inspector shall cause the Flee. | tion Marshal to make proclamation oi ! the opening of the polls; also to make | proclamation of the closing one hoII | and thirty minutes before closing: l fifteen minutes before closing and at the moment of the closing of the | polls. The Inspector and the two | judges shall determine between then ! when the hour for closing the polls has arrived; provided, that any per son who may at the moment of clos ! ing be within the polling place shaI he allowed ten minutes in which tC ! fill out and deposit his ballot, the same as if the polls were still open. | Officials Were Misied l The election officials who closed al 6 o'clock we're misled by the fact tha the new primary law, under which tho recent primary law was held provide. that the opening and closing hour O polling places on primary election days shall be the same as are provid ed for general elections. The Iay amending the old election law in thii respect, however, had not gone int, effect on the date of the recent pri mary as it was not passed with al emergency clause.
 Y In the opinion of Deputy Count.
 Attorney Murry the election of Nc
 yember , will be held under tn,
 amended law, which provides thaf
 the polls shall not open later thai
 six in the morning and close at si,
 in the afternoon.