general election, or at a special election held to fill a vacancy in such office, or at a town meeting. 16. 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. 17. 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. 66 18. 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. [As amended by chaps. 649 and 891, Laws of 1911, and chap. 820, Laws of 1913.] 4 ARTICLE 2 Enrollment of Voters Section 4. Delivery of enrollment books. 5. Enrollment books. 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. 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 4-b 14-b. Special enrollment upon becoming of age. 15. *Enrollment in the year nineteen hundred and eleven. 4 Entire article amended by chap. 891, Laws of 1911. 4a New section added by chap. 52, Laws of 1912. 4b New section added by chap. 244, Laws of 1914. So in original. Section 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. 4-c 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. § 4. Delivery of enrollment books. 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 election of the respective election districts in his town one-half hour before the opening of the polls. § 5. Enrollment books. 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. 4c Repealed by chap. 244, Laws of 1914. § 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 and envelopes 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 election districts wholly outside of a city or village having five thousand inhabitants or more, two such voting booths, for the enrollment of voters, the needed articles therefor, and an enrollment box, as above provided. § 7. Enrollment blanks and envelopes. There shall also be prepared and distributed by the custodian of primary records in the manner and at public expense as provided in this chapter for the furnishing of official ballots, such a number of enrollment blanks and envelopes for each election district, as will exceed by twenty-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 city ; county of assembly district (or ward election district; enrollment number "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 any candidate for any office nominated by it to be voted for by all of the electors of the state. Party (Insert emblem.) O (Insert emblem.) о Party "Make a cross X mark, with a pencil having black lead, in the circle under the emblem of the party with which you wish to enroll, for the purpose of participating in its primary elections during the next year." The circle underneath the emblem shall be one inch in diameter, and in them nothing shall be printed. The party emblems shall be the same as those which were on the ballots for each party respectively at the last preceding general election, and such emblems shall be so arranged on each blank that the emblem of the majority party at the last preceding general election of a governor shall be first, and the other emblems shall follow in order in accordance with the vote cast for such office at such election; over each emblem shall be printed, in type clearly legible, the name of the party represented by such emblem. The enrollment blanks shall have thereon only the emblems of those parties to which this article is applicable and shall be distributed inclosed within the enrollment envelopes having corresponding enrollment numbers. The enrollment envelopes shall be of such size as to permit inclosure therein, without folding, of the enrollment blank, and of such weight and texture of paper as to make it impossible to read or decipher the printed matter on the blank when the same is sealed on the inside thereof. Nothing shall be printed or written upon the enrollment envelopes, except the following words, or the substance thereof, blanks to be filled in in type as far as possible: of "Enrollment number. Primary enrollment for year city (or village or town) of ward or town); .; amended by chap. 820, Laws of 1913.] ; county assembly district (or election district." [As § 8. Delivery of enrollment blanks to voters who register personally. When, in any political subdivision of the state, a voter shall, at any of the regular meetings for registration in any year, present himself personally, for registration, to the board of election inspectors in any election district, his name and residence address shall be entered at the proper place in the two original enrollment books for that district. After he shall have been registered as a qualified voter of that election district for the next ensuing general election, the board of election inspectors, or a member thereof, shall forthwith and before such voter leaves the place of registration, enter his enrollment number, beginning with number one for the first voter enrolled on the first day, and so on in numerical order, opposite his name, in the first column of the registration books and the enrollment books, and shall write the name of the voter on the blank having the enrollment number which shall be opposite his name on the registration and enrollment books, and shall fill in the other blank spaces on the enrollment envelope and blank, and shall deliver to such voter the enrollment envelope and the blank having his name on it. No voter shall be given more than two sets of enrollment blanks and envelopes in any event, nor more than one set unless he shall spoil, deface, improperly mark, or otherwise destroy the first set given him. In case a second set is given him, the member of the board of election inspectors in charge of the enrollment books shall draw a line through such voter's enrollment number in the first column in said enrollment and registration books, and shall insert in such space in said columns the number which shall be upon the new set to be given him, which number shall always be the lowest number of the enrollment blanks and envelopes then unused in such election district. The procedure specified in this |