Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-06-22
PRIMARY DAY IS
SET FOR SEPT. z
August % Is Last Day for Fill
ing Petitions-Other Election
Law Changes.
Especial to the Evening star.I


TRENTON, June 22.-The last day
for filing petitions for nominations
this year will be Sunday, August 70,
but it is probable that the date will
be extended to the following day.
The primary election this year will
take place on September %.
In Congressional districts lying
wholly within a single county, such
as the Seventh in Passaic County,
the Ninth and Tenth in Essex, and
the Eleventh and Twelfth in Hudson,
the petitions nominating candidates
for Congress must be filed at least
twenty-five days before the primary
election, or on Friday, August 2S.
These petitions must be filed with the
county clerk.
Petitions for the nomination of all
county candidates, including members
OF the Legislature, must also be filed
with the county clerk at least twenty
five days before the primary election.
On or before July 1 the chairman OF
the county committee must file with
the municipal clerks the number of
committeeman to be elected. The
members of the county and city COM
mittees of the political parties are to
be chosen at the primary election.
Two members of tile County Board
of Elections in each county are to
be commissioned by Governor Fielder
during the month of July. The term
of office of all members of the County
Board of Elections thus commits
stoned will begin on August l; the
other two members of the board in
each county holding over. All the
county election boards are required
to meet and organize during the hrst
ten days of August
One of the most important election
laws enacted by the last Legislature
changes somewhat the procedure for
the transfer of voters from one cleo
ton district to another one. The old
law provided that in case a voter
moved and wished to be transferred
to a new election district he must
appear before a Supreme Court JUS
tice or county judge at the Court
House with proof of his removal and
right to vote in the new district.
The new act changes this by pro-
viding that the voter, in such case,
may appear at the Court House, "or
at such other place within said
county as will be most convenient
and accessible to the largest number
of voters of said county as either the
said justice or judge in his discretion
shall determine"
II will not be necessary, therefore,
this wear for the transfer of votes to
take place at the county seat, II IN
the discretion of the judges some
other place in the county will be more
convenient to the largest number OF
voters.
Another election act of 1914 PROVIDES
that whenever any question or prop
osition is to be submitted to the peo-
pie of the State at any primary, spe-
cial or general election, there shall
be mailed to each registered voter in
the same envelope with the sample
ballot a printed copy of the act OF the
legislature or constitutional amend
ment which is so submitted. 1t pro-
yides. further, that when the act of
the Legislature submitted in an
amendment or supplement to an ex-
isting statute, there shall be printed
and mailed to each registered voter
in addition to the copy of the act
submitted, such portion of the statute
to which the same is an amendment
or supplement as shall be necessary
clearly to disclose to the voter the
relation of the act submitted to the
existing law.
The act abolishing primary elections
and permitting preferential voting for
candidates in commission government
cities is another of the election acts
passed by the last Legislature.