Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-08

resides And the county election com missioners shall certify the regularity and sufficiency 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 thereWithi 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 ill accordance with the certificates of cleo ton.
 f. Proceedings for the recall of any officer shall be deemed to be pending from the date of the fling of any recall petition against such officer and if such officer shall resign at any time SlbSe- quent to the filing thereof, the recall election shall be held notwithstanding such resignation, and the vacancy caused by such resignation, or from any other cause. shall be filled as provided by law. but the person appointed to fill such vacancy shall hold his office only until the person elected at the recall election shall qualify.
 g. Any elector may be nominated for 1 the office which is to be filled at any re 1 call election in the following manner. 1 1. By petition signed by the cleo l tors. qualified to vote at such recall cleo 1 tion. equal in number to at least one 1 per centum of the total number of votes l cast at the last preceding election for 1 all candidates for the office which the
 incumbent sought to De removed occu~
 pies.
 ? By the returning boards of pri
 mary election.
 l 8 By the certificate of the chairman l and secretary of the convention of any ! regularly organized political party in l this state.
 i h. Nominations of candidates for
 state office. or for a candidate to be ! nJn tod ,t,{ T 1T
 more than one county shall be filed with | the state board of election commission
 CTS not less than thirty days prior to ] ing the recall election, and nominations l for candidates for county, township. city
 or town offices shall be filed With the 1 than fifteen days before the date fixed 1 by the county judge Tor holding the 1 county, township, city or town recall
 election. Provided that candidates for l shall be nominated five days before the
 election.
 | i. There shall be printed on the re-
 call ballot as to every officer whose i ing question: Shall tname of person
 against whom the recall petition is
 filed) be recalled from the office of di-
 tie of office?"), following which ques- l tion shall be the words Yes and No"
 on separate lines with a blank space on 1 the right of each. in which the voter
 
 vote for or against said recall. On
 such ballots. under each such question,
 there shall also be printed the names l of those persons who have been nomin-
 ated as candidates to succeed the per son recalled. in case he shall be remov- ed from office by said recall election; 1 but no vote cast shall be counted for
 any candidate for said office unless the
 voter also voted on said question of the recall of the person sought to be recall
 ed from said office. The name of the q p.lil C Url1 Ina iC 1n1
 shall not appear on the ballot as d can
 didate for the office. If d majority of
 those voting on said question of the re- | call of any incumbent from office shall vote No, said incumbent shall con ] tinue in said office.
 j. If majority shall vote Yes said Incumbent shall thereupOn be deemed re- ! moved from said office, upon the quali- i fication of his successor. Tbe election
 officials shall canvass all votes for can
 didates for said office and declare the
 result in like manner. as in a regular
 election. If the vote at any such recall
 election shall recall the otfieeH then tho
 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-
 section shall contain a full and accurate
 copy of the title and text of the peti-
 tion. Each signer 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
 section shall be at the pleasure of the
 person soliciting signatures to the same:
 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
 section of the petition shall bear the
 name of the county, township, city or
 town. in which it is circulated and only
 qualified electors of such county, town
 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
 same stating his qualifications, and that . all the signatures to the attached sec
 tion are made in his presence and that to his best knowledge and belief each , signature to the section is the genuine signature of the person whose name it
 purportS to be; and no other affidavit , thereto shall be required. The affidavit |. of any person soliciting signatures herc- under shall be verified free of charge by any officer of this state authorized to administer an oath. Such petition So verified shall be prima facia evidence
 that the signatures thereto appended : are genuine and that the persons sign ing the same are qualified electors Each section of the petition for the recall of any official shall be filed at the same time whether with the state
 election commissioners 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 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 convenine and organization of the legislature after the date of his election.
 3 h. 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 lcgisla- 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.