The Parker post., 1916-04-29
REGISTRATION
STARTS MAY
GENERAL QUALIFICATION OF
ELECTORS AND INFORMATION
ON REGISTRATION LAWS THAT
EVERYBODY SHOULD KNOW.

f! eral election in November will open
at the registration offices in the va
rious precincts of Yuma county next
Monday, May L. Registration closes
tember IS, closing again October Is
The election laws of Arizona pro
| vide for the complete registration OF
all electors of the state every two
years of the even years. The stat
utes set out the qualifications of an
elector as follows:
Every citizen of the United States,
and every citizen of Mexico who shall
have elected to become citizen OF
| the United States under the treaty of
peace exchanged and ratified at Que
retaro on the Goth day of May, 1S4S,
age of 21 years or over who shall
| have become a resident of the state
one year next preceding the cleo
! i II, and of the county and precinct
( III which he claims the right to vote,
thirty days, and who, not being pre-
vented BY physical disability from
SO doing, IS able to read the con-
stitWion of the United States in the
English language in such manner as
to show that he is neither prompted
nor reciting from memory, and to
write his name, shall be deemed to
na, and shall be entitled to register
for the purpose of voting at all cleo
| items"
If elector is naturalized citizen he
must present his second or final
| papers to the registration officer,
| else he can not be registered. If
however, such papers are lost or de-
! stroyed. the elector will be permit
ted to register upon executing and
filing with the registering officer an
affidavit giving the time, place and
court of issuance of such papers, and
the fact of their loss or destruction
and circumstances connected there
with.
The above applies to women as
we'll as to men, except that women
of foreign birth become naturalized
citizens upon their marriage to citi-
zens of the United States either by
birth or naturalization, or if already
married, the naturalization of the
husband carries with it citizenship
of the wife On the other hand when
woman who is a citizen of the
United States, either by birth or nat
uralization, marries an alien, her cit
izenship ceases with such marriage
In short, the citizenship of the wife
is that of the husband.
Electors must register in the pre-
cinct where they reside, to enable
them to vote at any primary or cleo
ton. The law by which person, if
not on the register, could register
at the polls, has been omitted from
the code now in force, and in order
to vote at any primary or election,
the electors name MUST appear on
the register of the precinct wherein
he or she resides. If, after register
ing, the elector moves to another
precinct or county, he or she must
cancel such first registration and
then re-register in the precinct or
county where elector then resides. A
person must not register more than
once, without first canceing any
prior registration. To fraudulentyl
register more than once or to know
:ngly register in any precinct where
he is not a resident at the time of
registering, is a criminal offense and
subjects the offender to fine in a
sum not exceeding two thousand dol
lars or Imprisonment not exceeding
three years, or both Everybody
must register this year if they wish
to vote at hte primary election on
September II or at the general cleo
tion on November Z, or at any other
election that may be held within the
next two years. No registration of
former years will suffice.
An amendment to the registration
laws made by the last legislature
provides that the elector when reg
isterlng shall give his party affilia-
rion, or say that he has none, If
such is the case. According to the
decision of the attorney general, any
elector refusing to give his party af-
fi!iation cannot register. If he has
no party affiliation he may so state,