The Brinkley argus., 1912-05-31
TOR ACT NO. 3. AGAINST ACT NO. 3.

Be 1t Enacted by the People of the
 State of Arkansas . Kirby's Digest be amended so as to read SECTION 27es. The Governor. secre. tary of State and Attorney General shall constitute State Board of Election Com missioners, whose duty 1t shall be to meet in the office of the Governor in the State Capitol on the second Monday in July next preceding any general elec- ton 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 the time and place of their next meet ing until their duties are completed. No person who Is a candidate for any off, 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- 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, a notice of his ap- posntment. and. in addition thereto, shall mall 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, 1t shall be the duty of such Circuit Clerk 10 cause to be served upon each of said requiring said commissioners to appear before said clerk, on or before the day fixed tor ana the oath pres scrfbed by Section twenty of Article nineteen of the Constitution. which said oath shall be endorsed on the certificate, feat shall be filed in said office as a ] ord.
 The State Board of Election Conrnis- sioners shall select the County Election electors certified to it by the chairmen of the State committees of the two po- Iiticai parties whose candidates Tor gov sruor received the highest and next highest number of votes Tn the last pre- ceding general election. Tho 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 rom The other of said lists for County Eiec- ton Commissioners in each county. n 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 or that party of it's own selection for com missioner. Said lists shall be filed Tn tripticate in the office of the Secretary 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 trfpltcate 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
 
 or serve of any person certified or ep- 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 or those on their lists who fall or refuse to accept or serve when certified or ap- pointed
 SECTION 2 That Section PISA of Kirby.s Digest be amended so as to read
 SECTION e7s4. The said commission- CTS shall hold office until their success ors are appointed ana qualified. Said commissioners shall meet at the court house at Nine O'Clock in the forenoon on she second Monday in August prior ganize themselves into . board of elec- ton commissioners by clccting one mem her chairman and another clerk Each commissioner shall have one vote. and swo shall constitute quorum. and the % cids sli m auestions Hes before them. Prov Provided that no pYoceedingp with less than three membero oheIt be had at any meeting until two of said members shall have remained actually present in the place ana have had the third member publicly called three times once at the beginning Of na1d hour and two other times at in- terr6Io of not less than twenty minutes. Their mpetinEs shall be public. and every ed1ournmsnt shall % designats l, the until their duties are completed.
 SECTION g. That Section 276B o1 xtrby's Digest bs smended % as to read \ sHcTfoN iSIsPMS a7ss. They sna,l. upon eeed forthwith to appoint three .tudges 1no GenneXs vadeh ooDointneots 01o1l bl