Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-07-27
EXTRACTS FROM
ELECTION LAWS
Provisions Which Interest
Election Officers and
Voters

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sometimes called the Terrell Election
Law, makes elaborate provisions for
the holding of primary elections.
Section e9-Provides that each
political party may have primary
elections for state. district and coun-
y officers.
Section 1913 Provides the Qualifi-
cations of persoLs entitled TO vote in
the primary election. requiring pay
ment of poll taxes or obtaining GER
tificates of exemption. where such
certificate is required before the
first day of February next preceding,
which fact II to be ascertained by the
officers by an inspection Of the GER
titled list of the qualified voters of
the precinct and of the poll tax re-
ceipts and certificates of exemption;
this section also provides that no one
shall vote in any primary except in
the voting precinct of his residence;
| ii also provides that ii any tax re-
ceipt or certificate is lost or misplac-
ed or inadvertently left at home that
fact must be sworn to by the voter.
Section Provides for an Off
cial ballot TO have printed at the
head of II the name of the party, and
under this heading the names OF all
candidates TO be arranged In order as
determined by the committee. This
is the section which provides how the
ballots shall be marked The pro-
vision reads as follows:
.The voter shall erase or mark out
all the names he does not wish to
vote for"
TIE official ballot shall be- -'u'ed
/, al v.aek fah on sns1e paper:i
Section 1l4-Provides that no Of
fetal ballot for primary election
shall have on its symbol or device or
any printed matter except a primary
test to be uniform throughout the
state, which shall read as follows:
"I am ..... inserting the
name of the political party and
pledge myself to support the nom
inees of this primary. :"
Il is further provided that any
ballot which shall not contain this
test printed above the names OF the
candidates shall be void and not be
counted
Section ll5-Proyides for a county
convention 10 be held on the first
Saturday after the primary election'
that this county convention shall be
composed of one delegate from each
precinct In such county for each 20
votes of major fraction thereof cast
for the party's candidate for COVER
nor at the last preceding election.
which delegates shall be elected 10y
the voters OF each precinct on phi
mary election day In such manner as
may be prescribed by the county eX-
ecutiye committee at their meeting on
the second Monday in June; that the
county convention shall elect one
delegate 20 the state and the several
district conventions for each BOO
votes or major fraction thereof cast
FOR the party's candidate for COVER
nor in said county al the last preced-
ing election The delegates so elect
cd. or such oi them as may attend,
said convention. shall cast the vote
OF such county in said convention.
Section l22 Provides that places
of holding primary elections OF the
political parties in The various pre-
lcincts of the state shall not be with
lin 100 yards OF the places at which
said election are held by different
political parties. When the chairman
OF the different political parties can
not agree on the places where the
different precinct primary elections
shall be held. such places shall be
designated by the county Judge.
Section I23-Provides that all
precinct primary elections OF a party
shall be conducted by a presiding
Judge TO be appointed by the chair
man Of the county executive commit
tee OF the party. with the assistance
or approval OF at least a majority OF
The members OF the county executive
committee That such presiding