The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-08-14
LAW RELATING TO NOMINATIONS
FOR TOWN Or VILLAGE OFFICES.


The law relating to nomination OF
candidates for town or villages Offices
has been amended and new section
created. The section as amended and
the section added reads as follows:
Section 1 Subsection 8 of section
20 Of the statutes is.amended to read:
| Section 29) 6. The electors of any
town o, village may assemble in caucus
to rake nominations of candidates for
town and village offices, at which caucus
only qualified electors town or village
shall participate and, on the demand OF
AM elector, the vote shall be by ballot
Such caucus shall be held at least sew
en- days prior to the day for holding the
election. At each, such caucus caucus
committee of three qualified electors
shall be elected, who shall give at least
five days notice fixing the time and
place OF the next caucus to be held in
such town or village.
Section 2. There is added to the
statutes a new section to read: Section
$50. At any election at which
town or village officers are to be elect
ed candidates for any Office shall be
nominated either by caucus as provided
in subsection of section % or by nomi-
nation papers signed by electors OF such
town or village equal in number TO ten
per cent of all the votes cast in such
town or village for all candidates for
governor at the last preceding general
election. Such nomination papers shall
conform to the provisions of subsections
and 5 of section 30 of the statutes.
Such nomination papers shall be filed
in the Office of the town or village clerk
at least five days prior to the holding
of such election.
2. The town or village clerk shall
cause to be printed a sufficient number
of sample and official ballots. Such
sample ballots shall be printed upon
tinted paper and the official ballots up
on white paper and both shall be of suf-
ficient length and width to afford space
for the names of all candidates. The
offices to be voted for shall be arranged
in the manner provided in section 35-5
of the statutes and the names of the
candidates shall be arranged in alpha
betcal order under their respective Of
flee designations. Sufficient space shall
be left under each office to write a name
in lieu of any name printed therein.
Such of1icia ballots shall be endorsed
as provided by subsection IA OF section
80 of the statutes, except that the en-
dorsement of one clerk shall! be sufiici-
emit when only one clerk is required, by
law, to be present.
g. The names of the persons nomi
mated in the manner provided in this
section and none other shall be placed
upon the official ballots: provided, that
in case no nominations are made, the
spaces in which names of candidates
may be printed or written shall be left
blank. Ballots not provided by the re-
spective town or village clerks shall not
be counted in any election, but any
voter may write upon his ballot the
name of any person for whom he de-
sires to vote for any Office in such place
as to indicate the Office.
4. Ballots used at such election shall
be furnished solely at the expense of
the respective town or village.
Section 3. This act shall take eff
feet upon passage and publication.
Approved July 30, 1913.