The Prescott daily news., 1912-05-31
FOR ACT NO. 3. AGAINST ACT NO. 3.

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 SECTION 1. That section 276S of Kirbys Digest be amended so as to read as follows:
 SECTION 2763. The Governor Secre-
 tary of State and Attorney General shall
 constitute State Board of Election Com
 missioners. whose duty it shall be to meet in the office of the Governor in
 the State Capitol on the second Monday in July next preceding any general cleo
 tion for State and County officers to ap-
 point three qualified electors as commits sioners in each county to select election judges for each voting precinct and to
 perform the other duties herein pre- scribed. Their meetings shall be public
 and every adjournment shall designate
 the time and place of their next meet
 ing until their duties are completed. No person who is candidate for any of flee to be voted for at such election, or
 is deputy or clerk or employe of any officer or person who is a candidate for election shall act as County Commis
 sioner. The appointment of the County Commissioners shall be in writing, un- der the hands of the State Board and the said State Board shall immediately
 mail to each County Commissioner. at the county seat, notice of his ap-
 pointment. and in addition thereto. shall
 mail to the clerk of the Circuit Court in such county certificate of the ap pointment of such commissioners and.
 upon the receipt of such certificate. it shall be the duty of such Circuit Clerk Fto cause to be served upon each of said commissioners, by the sheriff. notice requiring said commissioners to appear before said clerk on or before the day fixed for entering upon their duties and take and subscribe the oath pre- scribed by Section twenty of Article nineteen of the Constitution. which said oath shall be endorsed on the certificate
 and. when endorsed. said certificate shall be filed in said office as a record.
 The State Board of Election Commis-
 sioners shall select the County Election Commissioners from lists of qualified
 electors certified to it by the chairmen of the State committees of the two po- ltcal parties whose candidates for gov ernor received the highest and next
 highest number of votes Tn the last pre-
 ceding general election. The chairman of each of said parties shall certify the
 names of at least three persons from
 each county. and the said State Board of Commissioners shall appoint two per sons from one of said lists and one from the other of said lists for County Elec- ton Commissioners in each county. In the event the chairman of a party shall
 fail to certify the names as required
 by this Act for any county. the State Board shall appoint some member of
 that party of it's own selection for com
 missioner Said lists shall be filed in
 of State ten days before the first meet ing of the State Board of Election Com
 missioners. and the Secretary of State shall keep one of each of said triplicate
 lists on file in his office and shall de- liver the others to the other members of the State Board In the event of the death, resignation or refusal to accept or serve of any person certified or ap- pointed. another selection shall be made from the list of the party from whose list such person was selected. The State chairman shall promptly certify names of other persons to take the places of
 those on their lists who fail or refuse
 to accept or serve when certified or ap- pointed
 Kirby's Digest be amended so as to read
 as follows:
 SECTION 2764. The said commission
 CTS shall hold office until their success commissioners slrall meet at the court house at Nine O'Clock in the forenoon on the second Monday in August prior | to the general election, and shall or ganize themselves into a board of elec | tion commissioners by electing one mem Der chairman and another clerk. Each
 commissioner shall have one vote, and
 two shall constitute quorum, and the
 concurring votes of any two shall de- 1 eide all questions before them. Provided that no proceedings with less than three
 members shall be had at any meeting
 until two of said members shall have remained actually present in the place or meeting continuously for one hour
 and have had the third member publicly called three times, once at the beginning | Of said hour and two other times at in-
 tervals of not less than twenty minutes. | Their meetings shall be public. and every adjournment shall designate the
 time and place of their next meeting
 until their duties are completed.
 | SECTION 3. That Section 27e5 of
 k1rby's Digest be amended so as to read | as follows:
 SECTION z7s5. They shall, upon their organization as aforesaid, pro-
 ceed forthwith to appoint three judges | of election for each voting precinct in
 the county. which appointments shall be | served on or delivered to the persons
 appointed by the sheriff of the county. and the clerk of the board shall make a
 record of such appointment and shall
 file the same, attested by the chairman and the clerk of the board, with the | county cIerk All of aosd Conrtv Gov,