The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-11

after the decision is rendered and such
an appeal is determined within one
week after it is taken.
Sec. 10. Decisions by Pluralities.
The person, or, if more than one per-
son is to be elected to the office, the
number of persons for whom one cleo
tor may vote at the ensuing election,
receiving the greatest number Of
votes at a primary as the candidate
or candidates of a party for an office
shall be the candidate or candidates
of that party for such office, and his
or their name or names and no other
as such candidate or candidates shall
be printed on the official ballots of
that party at the following election
for such office, provided such person
received at least thirty per centum of
all the primary votes cast for the Of
flee in question on the party ticket on
which he ran. If no person received
a. person nominated for any office dies,
loses his residence, or withdraws be-
fore the election, or if no candidates
or not enough candidates filed the
requisite nomination papers for any
office, the vacancy so created may be
filled by any method prescribed by the
state central committee of the party
on the ticket on which the vacancy
occurs.
Sec. 20. In case of a failure to
nominate by reason of two or more
persons having the same number of
votes the canvassers shall decide be-
tween them by lot. 1t shall be the
duty of the secretary of the state and
the Encouragement before January
1, 1914, to prepare all forms neces-
sary to carry out the provisions of
this act, which forms shall be sub
stantially followed in all primaries
held in pursuance hereof. Such forms
h. Of Sc
act, for public use and distribution.
Sec. FL. General Election Laws to
Apply. The provisions of the gen
eraI statutes in relation to the Off
GERS at the polls. the soliciting of
votes, the challenging of voters, the
manner of conducting elections, the
counting of the ballots and making
return thereof, and all other kindred
subjects, including all statutes re1at-
ing to corrupt practices at elections,
shall, mutat1s mutandis, apply to all
primaries in so far they are or
shall be consistent with this act, the
intent of this section being to place
primaries to that extent always under
the regulation and protection of the
laws relating to elections.
Sec. 22. Nomination by Petition
Nominations of candidates to be vot-
ed for by all the electors of the state
may be made by nomination papers,
dence, the office for which he is nom
mated, and, if desired, the political
principles which he represents ex-
pressed in not more than twelve
words, which papers shall be signed,
in the aggregate, by not less than one
thousand electors for each candidate,
of whom at least fifty shall reside in
each county. Nominations of all 9TH
err candidates for offices to be filled
at a general or a city or borough cleo
ton may be made by like nomination
papers signed in the aggregate for
each candidate by one elector for ev-
cry fifty votes cast by all parties for
governor at the preceding state cleo
ton in the electoral district or divis-
ion to which the office pertains, but
in no case by less than fifty electors,
except that in the case of candidates
for city or borough offices the govern
ing vote shall be the entire vote last
cast for mayor or warden. Every
eIector who signs a nomination paper
as aforesaid shall sign it in person
with his surname and Christian name
and the initial of every other name
which he has, and shall add his resi-
dence, with street and number if any,
which residence shall be within the
district to which the office in ques-
ton pertains. Every elector may sign
as naany nomination papers for each