consecutively with arabic numerals printed in heavy faced type at the left of the name of each candidate and at the right of the voting space aforesaid, from one upward beginning with the name of the first candidate for nomination for public office whose name is printed first upon the ballot in the column at the left and continuing consecutively through the names of said candidates for nomination for public office and then consecutively through the names of the candidates for party positions; except that where there are two or more candidates for a party position. grouped as hereinbefore provided, each group shall have but one number, which shall be printed opposite the approximate center of the group, and there shall be between each group, including the group of spaces for names not printed, a blank space fivesixteenths of an inch in depth. Where the name of a candidate for nomination for the same public office or for election to the same party position is designated by two or more petitions, it shall be placed upon a ballot only once; if a candidate for a party position to be filled by two or more persons be designated in more than one petition, his name shall be printed only in the group of candidates designated by the petition first filed; provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent the printing of the name of a candidate upon the same official ballot as a candidate for nomination for public office and at the same time as a candidate for one or more distinct party positions. On the back of the ballot below the stub and immediately at the left of the center of the ballot shall be printed the name and emblem of the party, and in great primer roman condensed capitals "Official primary ballot for," and after the word "for" shall follow the designation of the election district for which the ballot is prepared, the date of the primary election, and a facsimile of the signature of the officer who has caused the ballot to be printed. Immediately above the center of such indorsement and upon the back of the stub, shall be printed the consecutive number of the ballot beginning, on the ballots of each party, with "number one," and increasing in regular numerical order, and on the back of the stub below the number, the name of the party. All official primary ballots shall, so far as it conforms to the above description, be substantially in the following form: [As added by chap. 891, Laws of 1911, and amended by chaps. 800 and 820, Laws of 1913, and exclusive of the ballot form by chap. 244, Laws of 1914.] 1ARTICLE 4-A Conduct of Official Primary Elections; Canvass of Returns 2Section 70. Organization and conduct of official primaries. 74. Primary districts, officers and polling places. 76. Restrictions as to place of primaries. 77. Removals from, and filling vacancies in, boards of primary election officers. 78. Primary poll-clerks and poll-books, in primary districts outside of cities of over one million inhabitants. 378-a. Primary poll-clerks and poll-books in cities of 79. Ballots, booths, books, blanks and supplies. 82. Preparation of ballot by voters. 83. Persons within the guard-rail. 84. Watchers; challengers; electioneering. 86. Intent of voters. 87. Proclamation and statement of result. 89. Canvass of statements of results; certificates of 90. Filling vacancies and determination of tie vote after primaries. 91. Party nominations for special elections and to fill certain vacancies. 92. Unofficial primaries. 93. Penalty for violation. New article added by chap. 891, Laws of 1913. Schedule of section headings and title amended by chap. 820, Laws of 1913. 3 New section added by Chap. 678, Laws of 1915. § 70. Organization and conduct of official primaries. 1. Election officials for each election district within a primary district shall comprise the election officers for such primary district. 2. All said officers shall take and subscribe the constitutional' oath of office, before entering on the discharge of their duties. 3. Such primary shall be held open, for voting thereat, from seven o'clock in the forenoon until nine o'clock in the evening, except in a city of over one million inhabitants, where such primary shall be held open, for voting thereat, from three o'clock in the afternoon until nine o'clock in the evening. 4. The primary election officers shall perform the same duties. that they are required to perform in a general election, and such additional duties as are in this chapter prescribed and shall receive the same pay as for services on the last day of registration; except that in any city of over one million inhabitants, they shall respectively receive seven dollars and fifty cents for their services at each official primary. 5. In each year an official primary election shall be held on the seventh Tuesday before the general election; in each year in which a president of the United States is to be elected, an additional official primary election shall be held on the first Tuesday in April. 6. Subject only to such differences as are herein provided or as may be necessary, the primary in a city of over one million inhabitants shall be conducted in the same manner as the general election. In any such city, a chairman of the board of primary inspectors shall be selected in the same manner as a chairman of a board of inspectors at a general election. [As amended by chap. 820, Laws of 1913, chap. 678, Laws of 1915, and chap. 537, Laws of 1916.] § 71. Qualifications of voters at official primaries. No person shall be entitled to vote at any official primary unless he is duly enrolled and may be qualified to vote on the day of election. The primary election inspectors shall decide all questions that arise relating to the qualifications of voters. § 72. Challenges at official primary elections. The right of an enrolled voter to participate in any official primary election shall be subject to challenge at any time before his ballot is deposited in the ballot box. When any enrolled voter shall be challenged, the chairman, or one of the members, of said board, shall forthwith put to him an oath or affirmation to answer truly such questions as shall be put to him, and he shall be allowed to vote if, and only if, he shall make such oath or affirmation, and shall answer in the affirmative each of the following questions: "Are you ... (using the name which he has given as his name)? at Do you reside, and have you, for thirty days last past, resided (giving the address which he has given as his residence)?” § 73. Expense of official primaries. The expense of official primary elections, including the expense of preparing and copying new enrollment books and the compensation herein provided to be paid to primary election officers, shall be paid by the same officers or boards and in the same manner, as the expenses of general elections. If provision shall not have been made for the payment of such expense in any year, then the officers who are empowered by law to make such provision in any county, city, town or other political subdivision of the state, are hereby authorized and directed to raise money to such an amount as may be necessary, in any manner provided by law for meeting expenses in anticipation of the collection of taxes and to pay such expense therefrom. The amount so raised shall be included in the amount to be raised by tax in the ensuing year. § 74. Primary districts, officers and polling places. The custodian of primary records shall thirty days before each official primary day, divide every ward in a city, except a city of over four hundred thousand inhabitants, and divide every village having five thousand inhabitants or more, into primary districts, each of which shall consist of two contiguous election districts, except that in case there is an odd number of election districts in such ward or village, the highest numbered election district shall be a primary district by itself. There shall be two polling places in each of such primary districts which shall be designated and provided at public expense by the officers or boards whose duty it is to provide polling places for days of general election, and which shall be, so far as they are available, the same places as were used for the last preceding general election. The custodian of primary records shall assign one of the polling places in each such primary district to the party which, at the last election of governor, cast the highest number of votes for governor, and at the other polling place in such primary district there shall be held the primary elections of all other parties. In all other villages and towns, and in each city having over four hundred thousand inhabitants, each election district shall constitute a primary district. In a city, town or village in which each election district constitutes a primary district there shall be for each primary district primary election officers, who shall consist of the election inspectors, poll clerks and ballot clerks for the election district comprising such primary district and such inspectors shall be the board of primary inspectors. In election districts in which voting machines are used at the general election the ballot clerks to serve at the primary election shall be appointed by the board of election inspectors for the purposes of such primary election only. In a city or village having more than five thousand inhabitants, except a city having over four hundred thousand inhabitants, there shall be for each primary district two groups of primary election officers, one of which shall consist of the election inspectors, poll clerks and ballot clerks for the election district or districts comprised within such primary district who shall at the time represent the party which at the last preceding election of a governor shall have cast the largest number of votes for governor, and the other of which shall consist of the election inspectors, poll clerks and ballot clerks who shall represent the party which, at such election, shall have cast the second largest number of votes for governor. The first mentioned officers shall conduct the primary election of the party represented by them and the second mentioned officers shall conduct the primary eleetions of all other parties at the time entitled to hold primary elections. The election inspectors belonging to each such group of primary officers shall be the board of primary inspectors. In a primary district having two boards of primary election inspectors each board shall elect an inspector chairman of the board before the opening of the polls at a primary election. In a primary district having one board of primary election inspectors the chairman of the board of election inspectors for the election district shall, if present, be the chairman of such board of primary officers, except as otherwise provided by law. In a city, town or village in which each election district constitutes a primary district the polling place in each such primary district shall be designated and provided at public expense by the officers or boards whose duty it is to provide the polling places for the general election, and, where practicable, it shall also be the same place that was used at the last preceding general elec |