The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-24
trict where the County Central Com. mittee holds it's meetings.

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 Section To- The County Clerk shall
 furnish the judges and clerks of ele,-
 ton with blank certificates upon
 Which to certify the vote cast for each
 candidate voted upon. and the judges
 and clerks, W tdey complete the
 count, shall make out such certificates
 in triplicate. signed by the judges and
 attested by the clerks, and immediate | " post one copy thereof in a conspic-
 uous place at the voting precinct,
 which shall remain so posted for ten
 successive days thereafter, deliver one
 copy to the County Clerk who shall file the same and return the other
 copy with the ballots and one copy of
 the poll books and register of voters
 to the County Central Committee. The
 expense of preparing said certificates
 and filing same shall be borne from
 the general revenue of the county.
 Section II. The County Central | Committee shall convene at noon of the Friday following the primary on
 Tuesday, and the returns. one of the
 list of voters and the ballots of each
 voting precinct are required to be de- | livered to said Committee as herein
 before provided on or before said 1 time.
 | If the returns and ballots of any | precinct are not then delivered, the | Committee shall send any peace ofll-
 Ger for the returns and ballots, and 1 the peace officer so selected is author
 tzed to take the same forcibly, if nee
 essary. from any one in whose posses
 sion they may be, and immediately l bring the same to said Committee If | all returns and ballots are not before | the Committee by Friday noon, it may | adjourn until it receives them, not lat
 CT than Saturday noon. The Commit | tee shall canvass the returns. and
 when demanded, examine the ballots, | may hear testimony, if offered, of | fraudulent practices and illegal votes, and may cast out illegal votes, fraud
 ulent returns, and find the true and l legal vote cast for each candidate, and
 shall certify the result not later than
 Monday following the primary.
 | Said Committee shall certify the
 nomination of all county and town
 ship offices; and, shall further certify the vote of all candidates for circuit
 and district offices 10 the Circuit and District Committees Gncluding con
 gressional districtsl, and shall certify
 the vote for candidates for United States Senate and for all State offices | to the State Central Committee.
 | The State Central Committee and | District and Circuit Committees, or
 other Committees or Conventions as
 are or may be authorized by law, shall receive the returns from County Cen l tral Committees and canvass and cer- | tif the result thereof as now provided
 s.aw, and said committees. or their | oncers, shall, when ordered by Cir cult Court, as hereinafter provided,
 annul the certifications made and | make certifications In accordance with the judgment of the Circuit Court. The County Central Committee inl-
 mediately upon having canvassed the returns and where demanded examin- ed the ballots, and upon having certi- | fled the results of the primary as here
 in required, shall, and it is hereby
 made obligatory upon it and its chair
 man and secretary, 10 file in the office
 of the County Clerk of said County. and in the said district of said county | where there is more than one district where the meetings of the Central Committees are held, all the returns, | all poll books, and all ballots, together | with all the poll tax receipts, all cer- | tificates of payment of poll taxes, affl- davits and other documents received | from the judges of election to be pre- served by said County Clerk. for tho period of six months, subject to the or ders of any court of competent juris- diction, or if contest is pending un- til said contest is determined, and the | failure of the County Clerk to pre- serve said returns, poll books, ballots and documents accompanying same, shall be misdemeanor and punished l by fine and imprisonment as is pro vided for other misdemeanors under this Act.
 The County Central Committee shall deliver the ballots to the County Clerk in the ballot boxes of the re- spective voting precincts locked and sealed and shall take the receipt of the clerk therefor, and the clerk shall not unlock said ballot boxes or break the seal thereof except upon order and direction of the court having jul- isdiction over contests as provided in