The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-08
ON ELECTION
EXPENSES WILL NOT
Affect THIS COUNTY

Recent ruling of the state board CT
accounts on the amounts allowed the
counties for election expenses will rot
change the practice in this county
where the state primary law has been
strictly followed, County Auditor
Brooks said Friday morning.
One matter which Benton Heights
voters must bear in mind this year,
according to the county auditor is the
fact that that section was formerly
vote din the first precinct, at Hills
greenhouse. Since it has been taken
in by the city, however, the residents
will vote in the thirty-ffth precinct
The ruling on the matter of allowing
expense accounts was sent out by
Jesse Eschbach, head of the state
board of accounts, in preparation Tor
the primary election of May 2. II
sets forth the regulations as follows:
Each inspector, judge, clerk and
sheriff is entitled to So for each day )
service while attending to such cleo
ton and performing the duties of his
office.
PER DIEM EXPLAINED
"The per diem fixed is for a cal
endar day, from midnight to midnight.
Each of said officials should receive
SO for their services from a. m. to
II o'clock midnight on May 2. Each
should receive an additional So for
services performed after midnight of
election day.
''The inspector should be paid one
days wages for going to the clerk s
office to receive ballots and election
supplies, provided he performs such
services prior to May 2. He will be
entitled to SO, as stated, for services
after midnight of said election day,
which services will include making re-
turn of votes cast"
In the primary election, boards are
constituted just as in regular cleo
tons. In each precinct the board is
composed of seven members-an in
spector two judges, two clerks and
two sheriffs. In this county, where
the Republican party is dominant, that
party has the privilege of furnishing
all the inspectors. The judges, clerks
and sneriffs are required by law to be
divided equally between Republicans
and Democrats.
Appointment of Board
All election board members are ap-
pointed by the board of election com
| missiolers, the Republican members
| upon the recommendation of the Re
publican county chairman and the
Democratic members upon the recon-
| mendatiun of the Democratic county
chairman.
No person holding an elective or ap-
pointive office in the city, township,
county or state government is eligible
hnr of oil
board in the primary. Neither an in
spectator or judge can have anything
bet or wagered on the election, or be
| father, fatherin-law, son, son-in-law,
| grandfather, grandson, brother, broth
er-in-law, uncle, nephew or first or
| second cousin of any candidate at the
election.
Many citizens are confused as to
what constitutes a qualified voter in
the primary. They become bothered
about the question of registration, the
question of the right of persons who
are not Il years old at the time of
| the primary, but who will be u at
the time of the general election, to
vote, ana about the question of right
! to choose with which party's branch
of the primary to participate. All
these matters are clearly and fully set
forth in the following section of the
primary election law. defining legally
qualified voters:
Legal Voter.
"A legally qualified voter of any pre-
cinct is a person p years of age, or
who will be 81 years of age on the day
of the next general election, who is a
citizen of the United States, and who
is on the day of the primary bona
| fide resident of such precinct, and
| who has not, upon conviction Of any
felony or misdemeanor, been dis
| franchised
! Every qualified voter of the pre-
cinct, as hereinbefore defined, shall be
entitled to vote in such precinct at
such primary election for the candi-
dates of party, providing he voted
i for a majority of the candidates OF
such party at such last preceding gen.
eral election, and providing further
| that his name appears on the registra.
| ton books of such precinct. If his
name does not appear on such regis.
| tration book, he shall be entitled to
vote if he shall make affidavit that he
| is a qualified voter of such precinct
An absent voter having in his ap
pllcation for an absent voters ballot
made his affidavit that he is a legal
qualified voter of his precinct cannot
! be challenged on the ground that he
is not registered"
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