Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-15

missioners shall certify the regularity and sufflciency thereof to the county judge who shall fix the date for holding the election in the same manner as the governor is directed in the case of the recall of state officers. and the county election commissioners shall certify the election of candidates elected at any county, township, city or town recall election to the governor who shall issue commissions in accordance herewith; provided that in the case Of constables.
 road overseers and school directors the returns shall be certified to the county judge who shall issue commissions in accordance with the certificates of cleo ! tion.
 officer shall be deemed to be pending from the date of the filing of any recall
 petition against such officer, and if such officer shall resign at any time subse-
 quent to the filing thereof the recall election shall be held notwith standing such resignation, and the vacancy caused
 cause shall be filled as provided by law
 but the person appointed to fill such vacancy shall hold his ofr1ce only until
 the person elected at the recall election shall qualify.
 g. Any eleetor may be nominated for
 the office which is to be filled at any re- call election in the following manner: i. By a petition signed by the elec-
 tors. qualified to vote at such recall cleo l tion, equal in number to at least one per centum of the total number of votes cast at the last preceding election TOT
 all candidates for the office which the incumbent sought to De removed occu- pies.
 2. By the returning boards of pri- 3. By the certificate of the chairman
 and secretary of the convention of any
 regularly organized political party in | this state.
 ! h. Nominations of candidates for state office, or for candidate to be | elected from a district composed of more than one county. shall be filed with the state board of election commi ssion- CTS not less than thirty days prior to the date fixed by the governor for hold | ing the recall election; and nominations for candidates for county, township. city l or town offices shall be filed with the county election commissioners not less 1 than fifteen days before the date fixed
 by the county judge for holding the
 election. Provided that candidates for school director at any recall election
 shall be nominated five days before tho | election.
 1 call ballot, as to every officer whose 1 recall is to be voted thereat. the follow ing question: Shall tname of person
 against whom the recall petition is ! tie of office?'D, following which ques- 1 tion shall be the words "Yes" and "No" on separate lines with 8 blank space on ! the right of each. in which the voter | shall indicate by placing a cross (X) his vote for. or against said recall. On such ballots. under each such question, l of those persons who have been nomfn- 1 ated as candidates to succeed the per- son recalled. in case he shall be remov- l ed from office by said recall election: I any candidate for said office unless tho | voter also voted on said question of the
 recall of the person sought to be recall I person against whom the petition is filed l shall not appear on the ballot a can
 didate for the office If aa majority of l call of any incumbent from office shall
 vote No. said incumbent shall con-
 tinue in said office
 | j. If a majority shall vote "Yes" said
 Incumbent shall thereupon be deemed re-
 moved from said office, upon the quali- l fication of his successor. The election
 didates for said office and declare the l result in like manner, as in a regular
 election. If the vote at any such recall
 election shall recall the officer, then the 1 candidate who has received the highest 1 number of votes for the office shall be
 thereby declared elected for the remain
 der of the term. In case the person
 who received the highest number of
 voters shall fail to qualify within ten | days after receiving the certificate of
 election, the office shall be deemed va
 cant and shall be filled according to | law.
 k, Any recall petition may be pre-
 sented and filed in sections, but each
 section shall contain a full and accurate | copy of the title and text of the peti- { tion. Each sgnor shall add to his sig | nature his place of residence, giving the
 street and number if such exists. His
 election precinct shall also appear on
 the petition after his signature. The
 number of signatures appended to each l section shall be at the pleasure of the l Any qualified elector of the state shall be competent to solicit such signatures
 within the county, township, or city. or
 town, Of which he is an elector Each l section of the petition shall bear the
 name Of the county, township. city or l town. in which it is circulated and only
 qualified electors of such county, town l ship, city or town shall be competent to sign such section Each section shall | have attached thereto the affidavit of
 the person soliciting signatures to the
 all the signatures to the attached sec- l tion are made in his presence and that ] to his best knowledge and belief each signature to the section is the genuine l signature of the person whose name it l purports to be; and no other affidavit thereto shall be required The affidavit
 of any person soliciting signatures here
 under shall be verified free of charge by
 any officer of this state authorized to 1 administer an oath. Such petition so
 verified shall be prima facia evidence
 are genuine and that the persons sign 1 ing the same are qualified electors | l. Each section of the petition for the l recall of any official shall be filed at
 the same time whether with the state election commissioners or the county
 election commissioners as herein pro
 vided, and any petition shall be deemed | to have been filed when it Is shown to
 the said election commissioners that the
 requisite number of electors have signed
 the same.
 m. No recall petition shall be circu-
 lated or filed against any officer until l he has actually held his office for at
 least six months; save and except, it
 may be filed against any member of the
 general assembly of the state at any
 time after five days or the converting and organization of the Legislature after
 the date of his election.
 n. If at any recall state election the incumbent whose recall is sought is
 not recalled, he shall be repaid from the
 state treasury any amount legally ex- pended by him as expense of such cleo
 tion, not to exceed. however, the sum of
 three hundred dollars. and the legisln- 1 ture shall provide appropriation for such
 purpose, and no proceedings for another
 recall election of said incumbent shall | be initiated within six months after such
 election.