Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-07-06
BLACK ANSWERS
MANY QUESTIONS
ATTORNEY GENERAL ANSWERS
NINETEEN QUESTIONS ASKED
BY VOTERS OF STATE
DELEGATES ARE NOMINEES
Names Must Appear ON Ballots the
Same as Other Candidates.

Deluged with questions from candi
dates, friends of candidates, county Of
flcials and voters in general about the
workings and requirements of the
state primary law, Attorney General
Roy l.. Black and his first assistant
Dean Driscoll, have prepared list OF
questions most often asked, and their
answers. for distribution to county au-
ditors.
The list, which comprises the opin-
ions of the attorney generals office on
these questions, ana which was made
public recently follows
l. The provision of the general
election law requiring the registrar to
place the electors oaths in the hands
of the proper judges of election is not
applicable to primary elections. The
oats should be retained by the regis
trar until the general election.
q. The registrar should deliver the
register to the judges of the election at
primary elections and in case where
there are more than one set of Judges
acting on the same day, it will be nee
essary to prepare an additional regis
ter for each set of judges.
3. Poll books in which clerks of
election enter the names of electors in
numerical order, should be furnished
at primary elections, also a check or
poll list, showing the registered vot-
ers of each precinct.
4. The laws providing for absent
voting are applicable under the new
primary law.
5. The primary election in 1920 is
held on the first Tuesday of August.
to-wit: the Bird.
Convention Delegates.
6. The candidates for a district
county, or precinct office to be voted
for at primary election must supple
ment the statute form of nomination
by adding statement as to what Of
flee he becomes a candidate for.
Z. The words the. | election
held at. IA. d. -. =" occurring in
the jurat set out following the nomina-
ton paper in section 543, Compiled
Statutes, are clerical error and SUI
perfluous.
8. Delegates to the county conyen-
ton are under the law, required to be
nominated as provided for the nomina-
ton of candidates for county officers
under the provisions of Section SAB.
and their names are to be printed
on the official ballot for the primary
election the same as for candidates
for other county officers.
3. No fees are required to be paid
upon the filing of nomination papers
Tor delegates to the county convention.
10 Names may be written in on the
primary ballot for any officer, dele
gate, precinct officer or committeeman
ana De counted the same as if printed
on the ballot.
IL. Time for filing nominations for
the primary election for 1920 closes on
the night OF the third of July.
Y. Nomination papers have to be
MED for precinct offices; e. g. justice
OF the peace and constable
IL. II no primary election is held
IN a precinct, the county central com
mlttee has no power to appoint dele
gates for that precinct nor has anyone
else' and the precinct has no repre-
'entation at the county convention.
Primary Dates.
IA. Following are the dates of the
'arfous elections and conventions:
Urinary election. August 8.
county convention, August II.
state convention. August "a.
General election, November 2.
10. Proxies cannot be used at either
tate or county conventions.
10 Where no nominations are filed
within the time limited by law. prior !
primary election, the county CEN
raj committee has no power to make :
nomination for that office prior to
ne holding of the primary but NAV :
III vacancy on the ticket after the
Urinary.
II. Where there is a vacancy on the ]
Icket for the office of county commits
Toner the vacancy is filled by the
ounty central committee and not by
ne governor
IL. A person duly qualified may be
candidate for and hold a public Of =
zee and at the same time a candidate
or and hold the position of committee
ian on the state or county central
ommittees or delegate to the state or
Ounty convention. ,
~. No compensation is to be paid .
ldges, clerks or assistants at primary :
Iectons from the county or state. The d
reclnct committeeman of each pre- U
net provides the polling place and no 0
art or the costs thereof is chargeable !
the county or state. The costs of Il
Il ballots, blanks and other supplies a
Icluding ballot boxes and booths. is II
aid out of the county treasury as at
sneral elections. p
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