The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-16
ELECTION QUESTIONS
ANSWERED IN PRIMER
information on Laws Which
VIII Govern Tuesdays
Primary Given.
QUALIFICATIONS NAMED
One More Registration Day
Before General Election
on November d.
QUALIFICATIONS NAMED

Here Is an election primer for those not
familiar with the laws that govern the
approaching municipal election:
q. When is the city primary election?
a. Next Tuesday October 81
Q. What is the purpose OF the primary
election?
4. To nominate four candidates for two
vacancies on the board OF city commits
sioners and two candidates for city aud
itor.
O. How are these nominations to be
made?
A. Twenty-seven aspirants for commits
sioneis and eleven persons seeking TO be
nomina led for auditor have regularly filed
petitions asking that their names be
placed on the official ballot. These names
are now on the ballot and on next Tues
day each elector VIII vote for TWO can
didates for commissioner and one cendi-
date for auditor making his choice from
the list OF candidates on the Official bal
missloners receiving the highest votes
and the two candidates for auditor re-
ceiving the highest votes will be officially
declared TO be the nominees selected al
the primary election.
@. Who may vote at the primary cleo
tion?
A Every qualified elector of Salt Lake
Q. Who are qualified electors?
A. All persons who arc more than 81
years old who have been citizens OF the
months. residents of Utah one year, OF
Salt Lake county four months. OF Salt
Lake City sixty days and who are regis
tered in the voting districts in which they
reside.
@ If a person is not registered may
he register between now and tho date OF
the primary election?
A No: the last registration day for
the primary election was last Tuesday,
and only those now on the registration
lists will be permitted TO vote next Tues
day.
Q. II a person voted Mt the general
election Of 1912 is his name now on the
registration list?
A. Yes: but if he has moved to an
other district since the election of a year
ago It will be necessary for him to get
from the registra tion agent OF
his former district. which will e1titls
now resides. This may be secured any
time up to next Monday night.
Q. II q person registered prior to the
election Of 1912, but failed to vote at that
election. is his name now On the regis
tration list?
A No, because only the names OF those
Who Voted ar are carried on the the regstra s
a person falls to exercise his voting priv
Ilege he has ceased to be qualified to
vote In the district in which he regis
tered.
O. When is the election at which the
candidates named ut the primary are to
be voted upon?
A. On November 4. two weeks after the
election.
O. Who may vote at that election?
A Every qualified elector. The quail
acations for electors who may vote at
the election on November are tho same
as those for electors who may vote at
next Tuesdays primary. However, be-
tween the two elections there Is another
day. That day is October rs.
one week from next Tuesday. On that
lay persons not previously registered
may enroll their names and become en-
titled to vote at the November election,
even though they are not qualified to
rote next Tuesday, by reason OF their
allure to register.
O. OF the two elections which Is the
moro important?
A Next Tuesdays primary election. At
.he primary election the voters choose
rom q large number of candidates the
,nes who Will contest for the final cleo
ion. II the vote at the primary cleo
ion Is representa- tive OF the best judg-
nent OF the people OF the city. the can
iidates nominated at the primary will
De presumed to be the best qualified OF
Ill the candidates for the offices which
hey seek. Apathy on the part OF tho
;oters may result In the nomination OF
Inferior men for important positions.
which may prove not only unwise but
dangerous.