The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-07-15
SPECIAL REGISTRATION TO De
HELD NEXT SATURDAY.

For the benefit of persons who we're
absent from the city during the regis
tratiOn period last year, those prevent
ed from registration by sickness, or by
death in their immediate families;
those who moved into the city after
the latest date for registration at the
last regular election and are qualified
voters those who have become Of age
since the last election and are qualified
voters, and those who have moved
from one precinct into another since
the last election, special registration
will be held in the office of County
Clerk Pearce Patton next Saturday.
According to an abstract of the new
primary law, "the County Clerk shall
require written oath as to the cause or
failure to register at the last registra-
ton, and also require the affidavit Of a
physician if illness is given as the
cause. The affidavits shall be kept in
bound book for that purpose.
"The right of any person to register
specially may be challenged by any
voter present; and the County Clerk
shall examine such person and any
witnesses who may be offered, under
oath, and shall determine the right Of
said person to register.
"The County Clerk shall write the
name OF the person specially regis
tered on the last page Of names begin
ming with thh same letter in the last
years registration book and in the col
umn headed remarks he shall write
words specially registered
|. 1.-The registration books shall be sent
to the polls to be fused by the election
officers to determine the right of any
person to vote in the primary.
Where a voter removes from one
precinct to another, after. having reg
stered for the last election, he may
have his name cancelled on the last
years registration book by having
written opposite his name the word re-
moved in the column headed re-
marks and then he may be specially
registered by the County Clerk, upon
taken oath that eh is qualified voter,
or will be such on the day of the pri-
mary, in the precinct Of his present
residence.
ga person removing from one city
to another in a different county shall
not be required to have his registra-
ton cancelled, but may be specially
registered upon making the same aft
daVit as above, viz, that he is a quail
fed voter, or will be such, on the day
of the primary, in the precinct of his
present residence"
Under the law, before person may
vote he must have been a resident of
! the State a year, of the county six
months, and of the precinct sixty
days, hence persons who may have
moved from one precinct to another
since the last election, although they
may live in the same ward, must be
| specially registers, before they may
/ vote in the coming primary. Persons
who move from one precinct into an
another within less than 60 days of the
primary diSquaGfy themselves from
takin apart in the primary election. y
Relative to the naming of election Of
| ficerS to serve in the coming primary
the law provides that the officers shall
! be appOined by the County Board OF
Election Commissioners; two officers
! for each voting place from a list OF
eight names submitted by the party
committees of he two leading political
parties. The list of names selected by
/ the party committees for election Of
! llCClS dI hC III OIloll DC SuOA4AIbCN
| to the Election Board no later than
mex Friday,or fifteen days before the
primary, and shall be open to inspec
ton thereafter.
The law provides that the candidates
shall be entitled to unite regardless OF
party, in designating the names of per
sons to be appointed election officers
by giving written notice to the Election
Boadr delivered to any member thereof
not later than 10 days before the pri
mary. twenty-five per cent. OF the can
didates may name one officer per pre-
cinct; so per cent. may name two Off
GERS per precinct, and 70 per cent. may
name three officers per pecinct. The
list of election officers shall be made III
by the Election Board and open to in
spectiOn by any candidate not late
than noon on the Saturday preceding
1.-THE primary.