Arizona republican., 1918-05-01

 HEADQUARTERS
 OPENING MAY s

Registration headquarters for Mari | copa county will open at the Ford l hotel on May 6, according to an an nouncement made by Vernon L. | Vaughn, county recorder yesterday.
 Declaring it duty of the public during the war period to keep down ex- penses the recorder urges the voting | public to cooperate by registering at an early date and making it unneces l Sary for officers to hunt up and regis 1 ter the citizen in order that he might 1 be entitled to cast his ballot at the November election. This and many other vital points are made clear in the instructions Rec l order Vaughn has forwarded to regis 1 tration officers throughout the county. The instructions which will be mailed today are as follows:
 Office of the County Recorder of Maricopa county. | The election laws of Arizona provide l for the complete registration of all electors in the state every two years on the even years. In compliance with | the requirements of this law registra- | tion for the November election will be- gin on the 9th day of May, and will continue until 10 days before the county primary election, or until Aug ust 30, at o'clock P. M., at which time the books will be closed for seventeen 1 days, and no registrations will be made until September r, at which time the books will again be open and register ing continue until October 15, when it will be closed until May l, 1920.
 The qualifications of electors are as follows: Must be 21 years of age or over; a citizen of the United States, either by birth or naturalization; resident of Arizona for one year prior to election, and of the county and precinct for 30 days; must be able to read the constitution of the United
 States in the English language and write his or her name, unless phy- sically unable to do so.
 If elector is a naturaliZed citizen he must present his second or final pap
 CTS to the registration officer, else he can not be registered. If, however, such papers are lost or destroyed, the
 elector will be permitted to register upon executing and filing with the reg
 istering officer an affidavit giving the
 time, place and court of issuance of such papers, and the fact of their loss or destruction and circumstances con- nected herewith.
 The above applies to women as well as to men, except that women of for
 eign birth become naturalized citizens upon their Anarrage to citizens of the
 United States either by birth or natur-
 alization, or if already married, the naturalization of the husband carries with it citizenship of the wife. On
 the other hand when a woman wht
 is a citizen of the United States either
 by birth or naturalization, marrieS an alien, her citizenship ceases with such
 marriage. In short, the citizenship of
 the wife is that of the husband.
 Electors must register in the precinct
 where they reside, to enable them to vote at any primary or election. The
 law by which a 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 prim-
 ary or election, the electors name must appear on the register of the precinct
 wherein he or she resides If after
 registering, the electOr moves to an
 other 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 cancelling any prior
 registration. To fraudulently register
 more than once or to knowingly regis |
 resident at the time of registering, is
 criminal offense and subjects the of
 fender to a fine in a sum not exceed
 ing two thousand dollars, or imprison- ment not exceeding three years, or
 both. Everybody must register this
 year if they wish to vote at the prim- ary election on September 10 or at the t general election on November 9th, or at any other election that may be held
 within the next two years. No regis
 tration of former years will suffice.
 The registration laws provide that the elector when registering shall give : his party utilization, or say that he D has none, if such is the case. Accord
 ing to the decision of the county attor- ney and concurred in by the attorney general, any elector refusing to give his party utilization can not register If he has no party utilization he may so state, and in order to register, this t question in the registration blank mus n be answered. This question of regis e tering without giving party affilia- r tion does not affect the elector at the S general election but is an importan, s factor at the primary for selection ot : candidates for the general election, fol s unless a party utilization is given the
 elector will not be permitted to vote s for any of the candidates on the regu- Q lar printed primary ballots.
 Registration officers. should remem-