tion held on the first Tuesday in April in years when a president of the United States is to be elected. 6. The term " unit of representation" means any election district, town, ward of a city, assembly district, or any other political subdivision of the state, respectively, which is the unit from which members of any political committee or delegates to a party convention shall be elected as herein provided. 7. The term custodian of primary records" means the officer or board whose duty it is by the provisions of this chapter to provide official ballots for general elections. 8. The term " board of elections" shall include a single commissioner of elections in a county having such an officer and the county clerk in any county which by the provisions of this chapter shall have no such board nor commissioner, except as otherwise provided in special provisions relating to any such county. 9. The term "party" means any political organization which at the last preceding election for governor polled at least ten thousand votes for governor. 10. The term "nomination" means the selection in accordance with the provisions of this chapter of a candidate for office. authorized to be filled at a general election or at a special election held to fill a vacancy in such office. 11. The term "designation" means any method in accordance with the provisions of this chapter by which condidates for party nominations, or for election as party committeemen or delegates, may be named in order that they may be placed upon the official ballot for any official primary election. 12. The term " official primary ballot" means the ballot prepared, printed and supplied for use at an official primary election in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. 13. The term "party position" means membership in a party committee or the position of delegate or alternate to a national party convention. 14. The term "committee " means any committee chosen, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, to represent the members of a party in any political subdivision of the state. 15. The term "independent body" means any organization or association of citizens which, by independent certificate, nominates candidates for office to be voted for at a general, special or village election, or town meeting, and which, if such independent body nominated a candidate for governor at the preceding general election of a governor, did not poll at least ten thousand votes for its candidate for such office. 66 16. The term party nomination" means the selection by a party of a candidate for an office authorized to be filled at a general election, or at a special election held to fill a vacancy in such office, or at a town meeting. 17. The term "independent nomination means the selection of a candidate by an independent body for an office authorized to be filled at a general election, or at a special election held to fill a vacancy in such office, or at a town meeting. 18. The term "party candidate" or " party nominee" means a person who is selected by a party to be its candidate for an office authorized to be filled at a general election, or at a special election held to fill a vacancy in such office, or at a town meeting. [As amended by chaps. 649, 891, Laws of 1911, and chap. 820, Laws of 1913, and chap. 537, Laws of 1916.] 19. The term "independent candidate" or "independent nominee" means a person who is selected by an independent body to be its candidate for an office authorized to be filled at a general election, or at a special election held to fill a vacancy in such office, or at a town meeting. [Added by chap. 678, Laws of 1915, and amended by chap. 537, Laws of 1916.] 20. The term "enrollment books," when applied to those used in a city of over one million inhabitants, means registers of electors in which party enrollments of voters are entered or provided for in additional columns. [Added by chap. 537, Laws of 1916.] 4 ARTICLE 2 Enrollment of Voters Section 4. Delivery of enrollment books where registers do not include enrollments. 5. Enrollment books where registers do not include enrollments. 6. Voting booths and enrollment boxes. 7. Enrollment blanks and envelopes. 8. Delivery of enrollment blanks to voters who register personally. 9. Delivery of enrollment blanks to voters where registration is not personal. 10. Enrollment by voters. 4 Entire article amended by chap. 891, Laws of 1911. Section 11. Examination, sealing and custody of enrollment boxes. 12. Certification and secrecy of enrollment where registration is personal. 13. Certification and secrecy of enrollment where registration is not personal. 14. Opening of enrollment box and completion of enroll ment. 14-a. 4 Correction of enrollment lists. 14-b. 4-Special enrollment upon becoming of age. 16. Duplicate enrollment books. 17. Use of duplicate enrollment books at unofficial primaries. 18. Use of original enrollment books at official primaries. 19. Right to enroll and vote at primaries. 19-a. Special enrollment after moving. 20. New enrollment books for changed districts. 21. Enrollment books to be public records; transcripts' of enrollment. 22. Publication of enrollment. 23. Judicial review of enrollment. 24. Correction of enrollment with respect to persons not in sympathy with party. 25. Investigation of enrollment. § 4. Delivery of enrollment books where registers do not include enrollments. In any political subdivision in which the registers of electors do not provide for entries of party enrollments, the custodian of primary records shall cause to be prepared on or before the fifteenth day of September in each year, original enrollment books to the number of two for each election district. Such enrollment books shall be so arranged that the names of all voters of the election district may be inscribed therein alphabetically. Said books shall be delivered by the custodian of primary records to the election inspectors of the respective election districts immediately before the first day of registration in each year and also in districts wholly outside of a city or village having five thousand inhabitants or more, to the town clerk at least twenty-four hours before the first day of registration, who shall deliver such enrollment books to the inspectors of 4a New section added by chap. 52, Laws of 1912. 4b New section added by chap. 244, Laws of 1914. 4c Repealed by chap. 244, Laws of 1914. election of the respective election districts in his town one-half hour before the opening of the polls. [As amended by chap. 678, Laws of 1915.] § 5. Enrollment books where registers do not include enrollments. In a political subdivision referred to in the preceding section, the enrollment books shall be so arranged and printed that there shall be twelve columns on each page; the first for the enrollment numbers of the voters; the second for the surnames of the voters; the third for the christian names of the voters; the fourth for their residence addresses; the fifth for the word "yes"; the sixth for the name of the party, if any, with which the voter shall enroll; the seventh for the word "voted " in case the voter votes at the spring primary; the eighth for a record as to challenges in case he is challenged thereat; the ninth and tenth columns for similar entries in case he votes at the fall primary; and the eleventh and twelfth columns for similar entries in case there be a third official primary election or an unofficial primary election. Reference, in this chapter, to a particular column, by number, of the enrollment books shall mean, when applied to a city having more than one million inhabitants, the appropriate column of the registers of electors. [As amended by chap. 678, Laws of 1915.] § 6. Voting booths and enrollment boxes. The custodian of primary records shall cause at least two voting booths of the same kind and description as voting booths used at general elections, to be erected in each place of registration before the first day of registration in each year, and such booths shall be and remain in said places of registration during the registration at the regular meetings for registration during that year; and it shall be the duty of the custodian of primary records to furnish in each voting booth so erected the same articles as are required by law to be placed therein for a general election, which articles shall remain therein during such registration. He shall also provide in like manner one enrollment box in each place of registration of sufficient capacity to hold all the enrollment blanks which are to be furnished for such place of registration, which shall be similar to the ballot boxes prescribed by law to be used at a general election. He shall also in like manner provide at each polling place on general election day, in each election district wholly outside of a city or village having five thousand inhabitants or more, or partly within and partly outside of any such village, two such voting booths, for the enrollment of voters, the needed articles therefor, and an enrollment box, as above provided. [As amended by chap. 537, Laws of 1916.] § 7. Enrollment blanks. There shall also be prepared by the custodian of primary records at public expense, to be borne in the same manner as the expense of furnishing official ballots, and delivered by such custodian with the enrollment books, such number of enrollment blanks for each election district as will exceed by seventy-five the total number of voters registered in such district. The enrollment blanks shall be printed on white paper, and on the face thereof shall be printed the following, or the substance thereof, the blanks to be filled in in type so far as possible: "Primary enrollment for the year (or village or town) of or town); .. city ; county of assembly district (or ward election district; enrollment number Name of voter ... "I, who have placed a mark underneath the party emblem hereunder of my choice, do solemnly declare that I have this day registered as a voter for the next ensuing election, (or, if the voter was duly registered otherwise than personally, that I have this day voted in the above election district') and that I am a qualified voter of the election district in which I have so registered (or voted), and that my residence address is as stated by me at the time I so registered (or, if registration was not personal, a statement of the voter's present address); that I am in general sympathy with the principles of the party which I have designated by my mark hereunder; that it is my intention to support generally at the next general election, state or national, the nominees of such party for state or national offices, and that I have not enrolled with or participated in any primary election or convention of any other party since the first day of last January. The word 'party' as used herein means a political organization which at the last preceding election of a governor, polled at least ten thousand votes for governor. |