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 Section 70. Organization and conduct of official primaries. 71. Qualifications of voters at official primaries. 72. Challenges at official primary elections. 73. Expense of official primaries. 74. Primary districts, officers and polling places. 75. Notice of official primaries. 76. Restrictions as to place of primaries. 77. Removals from, and filling vacancies in, boards of primary election officers. 78. Primary poll clerks. 79. Ballots, booths, books, blanks and supplies. 80. Delivery of ballots and manner of voting. 81. Unofficial ballots. 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. 1 New article added by chap. 891, Laws of 1913. 2 Schedule of section headings and title amended by chap. 820, Laws of 1913. Section 88. Preservation of ballots. 89. Canvass of statements of results; certificates of election to party position. 90. Filling vacancies and determination of tie vote after primaries. 91. Primaries held to nominate candidates for special elections. 92. Unofficial primaries. 93. Penalty for violation. § 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 from three o'clock in the afternoon until nine o'clock, in the evening, for voting thereat. 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. 5. In each year an official primary election shall be held on the fifth 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. [As amended by chap. 820, Laws of 1913.] § 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 or assembly district in a city and 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, assembly district 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, each election district shall constitute a primary district. Except in a city or village having more than five thousand inhabitants there shall be for each pri |