The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-29
ARTICLE III.

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! ARTICLE III.
Primaries
I. In each even numbered year
there shall be held a primary to
elect delegates to the local State
Congressional, Probate, and, when
Sheriff is to be voted for, to the
Shrievalty Conventions and to elect
delegates to the town convention
and to the Senatorial convention
in each Senatorial district.
In each odd numbered year there
shall be held primary to elect del
egates to the city, town, and school
conventions.
In any year in which a Presiden-
tial election is to occur, a special
primary shall be held to elect dele
gates to the State convention for
election of delegates to the National
convention.
2. The Executive Committee
shall fix the dates upon which all
primaries shall be held, having re-
gard for the Rules of the Demo-
cratic Party of the State of Con-
necticut and any law which may
apply, and shall also determine
whether the particular primary is
to be held in each voting district
or in each ward, and shall instruct
the chairman to issue a general
call for the primaries in accord
ance with its decision.
3. The chairman of the Demo-
cratic Town Committee shall issue
a general call for the primary and
shall cause the same to be adver-
tised in at least one daily newspa-
per published in the City Of Wa
terbury at least eight days before
the primary is to be held.
The call shall state the purpose
of the primary, whether 1t is to be
held by voting districts or by wards,
the time Of the primary, the place
/ within each voting district or ward
as the case may be where the pri-
mary shall be held, the number of
delegates to each convention to
which each ward is entitled, and the
number of delegates to be elected
to the Senatorial Convention when
such primary is to be held.
The call shall also state the time
and place at which tickets to be
voted upon at the primary must be
presented to the Town Committee
and shall include reasonable infor-
nation as to the procedure for fill
ing ticket required by these Rules.
The call shall also state that in
the event only one ticket is filed
for any primary in any voting dis
trict, ward or Senatorial district,
then the primary for such voting
district, ward or Senatorial dis
trict, shall be held at Democratic
Headquarters.
4. Each ticket to be voted for
at any primary must be presented
to meeting of the Town Com
mittee on the fourth day preceding
the primary and must be accom-
panied by a deposit of $500 for
each voting district in which said
ticket is to be voted for, in cash
or certified check payable to the
Treasurer of the Democratic Town
Committee.
There shall at the same time be
presented r. said Town Committee
separate list of the street address,
es of each delegate appearing on
said ticket.
No ticket other than those pre-
sented to the Town Committee in
accordance with this section shall
be voted for at any primary.
There shall at the same time be
presented to the Town Committee
with each ticket a list of names and
addresses of persons chosen to act
as tellers. If the primary is to be
by voting districts, there shall be
included in said list the names of
two persons from each voting dis
trict in which said ticket is to be
voted upon. If the primary is to be
by wards, there shall be included in
said list the names Of two persons
from each ward in which said ticket
is to be voted upon. The voting dis
trict or ward, as the case may be,
in which each person is to act as
teller shall be designated on said
list and no person shall be eligible
to act as teller unless his name APP
pears on the latest revised Demo-
cratic primary list for said voting
district or ward.
5. On the fourth day preceding
the primary the Town Committee
shall be in session between the
hours of eight and nine o'clock p.
M. at Democratic Headquarters for
the purpose of receiving the tickets,
the lists of tellers, and the deposits
referred to ii paragraph 4 above.
6. At the time the tickets are
filed the person filing each ticket
shall designate an individual or a
committee Of not more than three
persons to whom an accounting
shall be made by the treasurer.
Within ten days after the primary
the treasurer shall furnish each |
such designated person or commit
tee with an itemized list of expehdi-
lures made necessary by the hold
ing Of the primary. Said expendi-
lures shall be paid from the funds |
deposited by those filing tickets
and any balance remaining shall be
returned to the persons or COM
mittees designated in proportion to |
the deposit. In the event some tic
ketS are filed to be contested only
IN ceraitn Yards or voting districts,
the expenses of said wards or dis
tricts shall be separately computed |
for the purpose Of this account.
ARTICLE Nv.
Delegates
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various local conventions except