Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1916 — PRIMARY ELECTION BOARDS. [ARTICLE]

PRIMARY ELECTION BOARDS.

(qualification* Required and Other Information of Interest to the Voter. ■ . Do:;.ocratic precinct chairmen of Jasper county should* make their selections lor members of the' primary election board in their respect’ve precincts and forward the names to County Chairman F. R. Erwin at Fair Oaks. He makes the recommemlations and notifies the board of election .commissioners whom he wants appointed and the latter MUST appoint Ihe men ivromnuqided if liis recommendations are made in writing to the board at least FIVE DAYS before the primary. Remember that a judge must be a freeholder. and no one can sit on a board who is related to any of the •undid..t« s. as far removed as second cousin, even. Judges must also have been a resident freeholder at least one year or a resident householder at least two years proceeding the primary. This qualification also applies to inspectors, but clerks and sheriffs need only be legal voters. The Republicans being the dominant party in the county will appoint lhe inspectors—tliis is also done by the board of election commissioners on recommendation of the | county chairman—but. the Democrats will be entitled to one judge, Lone clerk and one sheriff. The Progressives gel one judge and one sheriff. The Republicans only have the inspector and . one clerk. This makes the primary board equally divided in number among the three parties participating in the primary, each of whom is also entitled to a poll-book bolder, but the latter if Paid must be paid by his party and not by the county. Members of the primary board v. ill receive $3 per day for their services, instead of $2 as provided under the regular election law. This applies also to the sheriffs, who only receive $1.50 per day under the regular election law. Any person is entitled to vote in the primary who will be a legal voter of his precinct at the regular November election. That is, suppose one has moved from one precinct to another or has not resided the required length of time either in the state, township or precinct, hut will have been a resident thereof the required time by the date of the November election: —six months in state, 60 days in the township, 30 days in precinct—he is entitled to a vote in tbe primary. But he must qualify himself to the election board, giving the facts, etc. 1 ffone is not 21 years of age at the time of the primary but will be of legal age in time to vote at the regular election, he' also is entitled to a vote in the primary. The election boards will have thh last official registration lists of their respective precincts on their table for the primaries and will know who is entitled to vote at such primary except as above stated If one did not either register or vote at the last general election lie may vote at the primary by complying with the requirements as provided Dy the new voter in such precinct. The complete official primary ticket, of ail three parties except for precinct committeemen and delegates to the state convention, will be published for two weeks before the primary in The Democrat, arid instructions will also lie published making everything plain to the voter.