The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-10-21

QtQalGS OF each party may REQUIRE.
Section Is. DUTY of County Auditors.)
The County Auditor shall at least thirty
days prior to the primary date post in q
conspicuous place near his office an an
nouncement Of the color % the primary
ballot and shall also furnish a copy Of
such announcement to the official news
paper of the county which announcement
shall be published therein for at least
Section 10. Designation Of Ballot.)
At the top of the Primary Election Bal
lot in large letters there shall be words
Ballot the words shall be REPUBLICAN,
PRIMARY BALLOT. and like designa-
ton for the ballot of any other political
party having ballot before such primary.
The County Auditor shall furnish the copy
OF the official ballot to the printer not
less than fifteen lays prior to the date
Der of official ballots and sample bal
lots shall be printed at the expense of the
County provided the number OF official
Primary Ballots shall be equal to one
and one-haif times the number of reg
istered electors of each political party as
shown by the Auditors records at the
time Of submitting such copy to printer
by the County Auditor and the number of
sample ballots shall be equal to one-half
OF the number of registered electors as
shown by such County Auditors records.
Section 20. (Party Reeistration.) No
elector in the State of South Dakota shall
be permitted to vote at any party Pri-
mary Election unless he is duly regis
tered as herein provided or unless he
shows a substantiated affidavit that he
is entitled to vote in such primary as
hereinafter provided.
Section 81. Notice of Party Registra-
tion.) Tn County Auditor shall publish
a notice in the official newspaper of the
County for at least two issues
ing with the second issue in January
prior TO the primary, a notice in the fol-
NOTICE OF REGISTRATION.
Notice Is hereby given TO all electors In
....... County that a primary election
will be held on the....... day of May for
party candidates for United States Sen
ator, Representatives in Congress. Gov
ernor and County and Legislative Off
GERS and for the purpose OF electing one
Party State Committeeman and. ........
delegates to the Party State Convention
and no person will be allowed to vote
tion unless he has registered his party
affiliations with the County Auditor at
least fifteen days before the date of such
primary. Any qualified elector can reg
lister in person with the County Auditor
or on card by mail.
County Auditor.
County.
Section 22. Registration by Card.)
The County Auditor shall prepare cards
with Che notice provided in Section 81 of
this act printed upon the back thereof
FILL OUT. SIGN AND RETURN
.,,....;..; County Auditor:
l hereby declare that / am a member
of the....... party and a qualified ~elector
OF ....... precinct; that / intend to vote
the. ballot at the primary and sup
port the nominees of such primary and
ton in November, and you are authorized
to register me as 49,.
Immediately after the first Monday in
February the County Auditor shall mail
one OF such cards to each elector Of the
County as shown by the registration list
In his office from the last general cleo
ton and any other qualified elector of the
County that may come 10 his knowledge.
Section %. Registration Books.)
From the names that have been regis
tered in person and by card the County
Auditor shall prepare the party registra-
ton book for each precinct OF the Cottr-
ty designating each registered elector by
the initial of the name of the party for
which he registered. Thus if he is q Re-
publican RI; If a Democrat 90, etc,
and furnish such Registration Books TO
the Superintendent of the primary cleo
ton judges when the election supplies
are delivered to be used in such precinct
at such primary election.
Section "a. DUTY of Ballot Clerk 1t
shall be the duty of the Ballot Clerk
when IN elector demands a ballot TO as
certain from the registration book wheth-
er or not he is registered and If he is
registered for what political party and
Al ilS ~ 10 lOuiiu ot liiC INtSlSlIdlIOn
Book to deliver to him the party Primary
Ballot of the party he had declared he
was a member of in his registration and
for no other. If his name is not found
In the Registration Book he is not en-
titled to vote for any party candidate
and must be refused a ballot unless he
makes affidavit substantiated by two
registered electors of the political party
of which he claims to be a member, a
resident of the precinct in which he Of
fers TO vote, showing that he is a mem
Der of the party in which he seeks to vote
and that he failed to register on account
OF some unavoidable circumstance and
when such affidavit properly substantial
ed as above provided has been made it
deliver him a ballot. When the election
Is closed and convention is completed
the Registration Books shall be placed
In the ballet box together with the affi-
been permitted to vote and returned to
the County Auditor and kept in his Of
flee as permanent records.
Section %. Notice of Primary Elec-
tion.) Not less than thirty days prior to
the holding of the primary the County
Auditor ohall prepare a notice in substan-
tally the following form:
NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION
Notice Is hereby given that, as pro-
vided by law. a primary election will be
held at the regular polling places in all
or the voting precincts OF ........C County
South Dakota, on the......day of May,
H., between the hours Of 500 o'clock
A. NJ. and 500 O'Clock p. NJ, for the
purpose of allowing the members OF e5 oh
political party in the State by their own
separate party vote to choose their sew
eral party candidates for County and
Legislative offices which are to be filled
by election at the next general election,
and to elect their several state and pre-
cinct committeeman and delegates to
their several party state conventions.
Dated this ....,..d day of........., 49,.
County Auditor.
Section 26. (Further Duties of County
Auditory The county shall also at the
expense of the County, procure a suffi-
Client number of printed copies of the
Notice of the Primaries prepared under
thu provisions of Section % OF this Act
and shall at least fifteen days prior to
the holding of the primary mail not less
than five copies thereof to the Town
Clerk OF every organized township of the
County and the City or Town Clerk or
Auditor of every town or city in the
County a sufficient number of copies SO
that at least five copies may be posted
In each precinct in such city or town. In
cases where the voting precincts are not
within an organized township, town or
city. the auditor shall mail to some re-
sponsible elector residing within such
precinct five copies of said notice.
Section 81. (Auditor to Deliver Ballots
and Supplies to Sheriff.) The County
Auditor shall deliver ballots and other
primary election supplies to the Sheriff
with the name of the precinct plainly
marked thereon for which they are In
tQndad fba number IF ba 1l0fg enclosed