Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1918 — QUALIFICATIONS FOR PRIMARY VOTING [ARTICLE]

QUALIFICATIONS FOR PRIMARY VOTING

*T 1. Each qualified voter of the precinct, who was a registered voter at the last preceding general election, has a right to vote. The fact that his name appears on the registration book is sufficient evidence 'of his right. 2. Any person who will be a l qualified voter at the next general j election, whose name (Joes not appear on the registration book, is entitled to vote if he makes an affi- ' davit that be is a qualified voter of his precinct. .3. Any qualified legal voter who will be twenty-one years of age before the next general election is entitled to vote the primary ticket ! of the party he intends to join, and I for his candidate he intends to vote J and if his right is challenged be 'can qualify at the next general election, and that he intends to ’support and vote for the nominees of the party whose ticket he seeks ' to vote. If a voter is challenged he must make affidavit to prove his qualifica- . tions as a legal voter and his party 'affiliations at last general election 'and if he did not vote, then his intention as to the party he will support at the next general election. Every voter must register in order to vote at the next general elec-' tion and he may do so by filing with the primary election inspector of his precinct an application for registration properly filled out. signed and sworn to. Every voter who expects to stay in his precinct till the next general election, should register in this way, but need not do so in the primary election.