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GIFT OF 
 
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.A LAW 
 
 RELATING TO 
 
 Primary Elections 
 
 ILLINOIS 
 
 IN FORCE JULY 1, 1906 
 
 Published by 
 JAMES A. ROSE, Secretary of State 
 
 SPRINGFIELD: 
 ILLINOIS STATE JOURNAL Co., STATE PRINTERS 
 
 1906 
 
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PRIMARY ELECTIONS. 
 
 1. What candidates shall be nomin- 
 ated at primaries exemptions 
 political party defined. 
 
 2. Delegate districts how formed. 
 
 3. Delegate districts further provi- 
 sions. 
 
 4. Date of primaries opening and 
 closing of polls privileges of 
 voters. 
 
 5. State, senatorial and congres- 
 sional conventions calls for 
 number of delegates duties of 
 committees. 
 
 6. Notice of primary duty of county 
 clerks and election judges. 
 
 7. Election judges and clerks are 
 primary judges and clerks 
 vacancies liabilities. 
 
 8. Challengers provided for. 
 
 9. Polling places and polling booths 
 regulations concerning. 
 
 10. Ballot boxes, poll books, etc., to 
 be supplied by county clerks. 
 
 11. Poll book form prescribed. 
 
 12. Tally Sheet form prescribed. 
 
 13. U. S. Senator duty of candidate. 
 
 14. State officers duty of candidates. 
 
 15. Representative in Congress State 
 Board of Equalization duty of 
 candidates. 
 
 16. General Assembly duty of can- 
 didates. 
 
 17. County officers duties of candi- 
 dates. 
 
 18. Petition form prescribed peti- 
 tions now on file. 
 
 19. Petitions duty of Secretary of 
 State. 
 
 20. Ballots -"official primary ballot" 
 "delegate ballot." 
 
 21. Ballots how provided sample 
 ballots. 
 
 22. Ballots what names shall appear 
 on. 
 
 23. Ballot size, color, etc., regulated. 
 
 24. Ballot form prescribed. 
 
 25. Endorsements prescribed. 
 
 26. Ballots county clerks shall de- 
 liver to primary judges. 
 
 27. Ballots delivery and receipt. 
 
 28. Ballots surplus for emergency. 
 
 29. Delegate ballot form prescribed. 
 
 30. Delegate ballots duty of judges. 
 
 31. Opening and closing polls pro- 
 clamation. 
 
 32. Ballot box regulation concerning. 
 
 33. Qualification of voters. 
 
 34. Duties of. voters. 
 
 35. Affidavit of challenged voter 
 form prescribed. 
 
 36. Ballot -how prepared. 
 
 37. Ballot how voted. 
 
 38. Voter may receive assistance. 
 
 39. Adjournment and recess pro- 
 hibited. 
 
 40. Canvass shall be at polling place. 
 
 41. Canvass defective ballots re- 
 turn of unused ballots record. 
 
 42. Canvass further provisions. 
 
 43. Canvass how conducted. 
 
 44. Canvass tally sheets and poll 
 books how made up. 
 
 45. Ballots defective and objected 
 to how disposed of. 
 
 46. Poll books how disposed of. 
 
 47. Return to county clerks duty of 
 county clerks certificate to 
 delegates form prescribed. 
 
 48. Canvassing board how consti- 
 tuted duties prescribed. 
 
 49. Canvassing board further duties 
 prescribed. 
 
 50. Plurality vote -for candidate 
 effect of majority vote of dele- 
 gates in convention. 
 
 51. State canvassing board Secretary 
 of State duties prescribed. 
 
 52. Expenses of primaries how met 
 pay of judges and clerks fixed. 
 
 53. Conventions, county, senatorial, 
 congressional and State dates 
 fixed. 
 
 54. Conventions chairman other 
 officers. 
 
 55. Conventions delegates vacan- 
 cies. 
 
 56. Proxies prohibited. 
 
 57. Nomination certificates form 
 filing. 
 
 58. Vacancies provided for. 
 
 J5 59. Vacancy in office special elec- 
 tions. 
 
 60. Contests regulated. 
 
 61. Offenses enumerated and penalties 
 fixed. 
 
 62. Evidence in prosecutions and con- 
 tests duty of custodians of 
 ballots, etc. 
 
 63. Irregularities no defense in pro- 
 secutions. 
 
 64. Repeal. 
 
 AN ACT to provide for the holding and the regulation of primary elections 
 of delegates to nominating conventions, for the holding of such conventions, 
 filling vacancies and fixing penalties for the violation of the. provisions 
 thereof. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the people of the State of Illinois represented 
 in the General Assembly: That hereafter the nominations of all candidates 
 for all elective State and county offices, clerks of the Appellate Courts, Repre- 
 sentatives in Congress, Members of the State Board of Equalization, Members 
 of the General Assembly, Sanitary District Trustees, and such municipal 
 officers as are to be elected at the November election, by all political parties, 
 shall be made by conventiors of delegates to be elected by means of a primary 
 
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election 'under "the provisions of this act. This act shall not apply to the 
 nomination of candidates for county commissioners in counties not under 
 township organization and township officers. The title "political party" shall 
 mean a party which at the last preceding presidential election, cast for its 
 candidate for presidential elector receiving the highest number of votes at 
 least two per cent of the total vote cast at said election. 
 
 Section 2. The County Central Committee of each political party shall 
 designate and establish delegate districts in their respective counties on or 
 before the third day of July, A. D. 1906, and on or before the first day of 
 March, A. D. 1909, and every four years thereafter. Such delegate district 
 shall consist of not more than seven (7) contiguous election precincts or 
 election districts in as compact a form as possible, as now established or that 
 may hereafter be established for the purpose of a general election, and shall 
 contain, as near as may be, and not exceeding eight hundred (800) voters of 
 any one political party, for the purpose of electing delegates to a State, 
 Congressional, Senatorial, County or Sanitary District, and a Municipal Con- 
 vention for the nomination of such municipal officers as are to be elected at 
 the November election. 
 
 Section 3. No delegate district for the election of delegates to any County 
 Convention shall consist of a larger area than one political town as now 
 organized by law, or of a larger area than a Congressional township in coun- 
 ties not under township organization. Separate delegate districts may be 
 established for the purpose of selecting delegates to county conventions, mak- 
 ing such delegate districts as nearly equal as practicable, having in view the 
 number of party voters in such districts. 
 
 Section 4. Primary elections under this act shall be held in each delegate 
 district at the regularly established polling places in the various precincts for 
 holding general elections on the first Saturday in August, A. D. 1906, and on 
 the last Saturday in April, A. D. 1908, nnd every two years thereafter. The 
 rolls shall open and close at the same hours as provided in the general elec- 
 tion laws for the opening and closing of the polls at general elections. Any 
 person entitled to vote at such primary elections shall, on the day of such 
 election, be entitled to absent himself from any service or employment in 
 which he is then engaged or employed for a period of two hours between 
 the time of opening and closing the polls, and such voter shall not, because 
 of so absenting himself, be liable to any penalty nor shall any deduction be 
 made, on account of such absence, from his usual salary or wages: Provided, 
 however, that application for such leave of absence shall be made prior to 
 the day of the primary. The employer may specify the hours during which 
 said employe may absent himself. 
 
 Section 5. At least thirty-three days before a primary election the State, 
 Congressional, and Senatorial committee, respectively, of each political party 
 shall file in the office of the county clerk of the county within which the 
 primary is to be held, or with the Board of Election Commissioners, a call 
 for the State, Congressional, and Senatorial conventions. Said call shall 
 state among other things, the time and place of holding the State, Congres-. 
 sional, and Senatorial conventions, respectively, the total number of delegates 
 which shall compose each of said conventions, and the call for the State 
 convention shall state the number of delegates that each county is entitled 
 to in the State convention; and the call for the Congressional and Senatorial 
 conventions shall state, among other things, the number of delegates to which 
 each county, or political sub-division of any county, as the case may be, is 
 entitled to in the respective Congressional and Senatorial convention; and 
 the call for the County convention shall be filed in the office of the county 
 clerk of the county within which the primary is to be held, or with the Board 
 of Election Commissioners, at least thirty (30) days before a primary elec- 
 tion, said call shall also state, among other things, the number of delegates 
 that each delegate district is entitled to in the State, Congressional, Sena- 
 torial, County, Sanitary District, Municipal convention for the nomination of 
 such municipal officers as are to be elected at. the November election, respec- 
 tively, which said calls shall each be signed by the chairman and attested by 
 
the secretary of the respective committees. The number of delegates from 
 each of the several delegate districts shall be apportioned equally to the 
 number of votes of such political party in each such district as shown by the 
 last preceding presidential election returns. In case there shall be in any 
 Congressional or Senatorial district, or in any county, more than one com- 
 mittee claiming to be the regular central committee of such district or 
 county, then, and in that case, the central committee selected by the conven- 
 tion, whose candidates were placed on the official ballot in 1904, shall be 
 recognized as the central committee authorized to make the call under this 
 act in the year 1906. 
 
 Section 6. At least five days before each primary election, the county 
 clerk of each county, or where there is a board of election commissioners, 
 such board shall prepare a printed, or partly printed and partly written 
 notice of such primary election for each delegate district in such county, 
 which notice shall state the name of the political party calling the primary, 
 the time and places of holding the primary election, the hours during which 
 the polls shall be open, the various conventions to compose which delegates 
 are to be chosen at such primary election, and shall also mail two copies of 
 such notice to each primary election judge, duly addressed to his residence 
 or place of business. It shall be the duty of each primary election judge to 
 post both of said notices in a public and conspicuous place in his election 
 precinct at least three days prior to such primary election. 
 
 Section 7. The judges and clerks of the general election in ea?h election 
 precinct, or election district, as the case may be, shall be and are hereby 
 constituted judges and clerks of all primary elections in their respective 
 precincts; no more than two of such judges and clerks, and where there is a 
 board of election commissioners, no more than one such clerk, shall be 
 affiliated with the same political party. If at the time -for the opening of a 
 primary election, one or two of the primary judges or clerks are absent or 
 refuse to act, the judge or judges present, as the case may be, shall appoint 
 some qualified primary elector or electors in such precinct of the same politi- 
 cal parties, to fill such vacancy or vacancies. If all of the judges be absent 
 or refuse to act the primary electors present, residing in the election precinct 
 shall elect three of their number to act as such primary judges. The persons 
 so elected must be of the same political party and of like number, as those 
 persons whose places they are selected to fill. The judges and clerks so 
 selected and appointed, shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, 
 and be subject to the same penalties as regularly constituted primary election 
 judges and clerks. 
 
 All persons actually serving as judges and clerks at any primary election, 
 whether sworn in or not, shall be deemed to be, and are hereby declared to 
 be, officers of the county court of the respective county; and such persons 
 shall be liable to punishment by such court in a proceeding for contempt for 
 any misbehavior as such judge or clerk, to be tried in open court on oral 
 testimony, in a summary manner, without written pleadings; but such trial 
 or punishment for contempt of court shall not be any bar to any criminal 
 proceedings against such primary judges or clerks for any violation of this 
 Act. 
 
 Section 8. The judges of election shall permit each different ticket of 
 delegates to be represented by a challenger, chosen by a majority of those 
 named for delegates on such ticket. Such challengers shall be protected in 
 the discharge of their duties by the judges of such primary election and peace 
 officers; and shall be permitted to remain within the polling place in such 
 position as will enable them to see each person as he offers his vote, and said 
 challenger may remain within the polling place throughout the canvass of 
 the vote, and until the returns are signed. All challengers shall be qualified 
 electors in their respective precincts, and shall have the same powers as 
 challengers at general elections. 
 
 Section 9. All officers upon whom is imposed by law the duty of designat- 
 ing and providing polling places for general elections shall provide in each 
 such polling place so designated and provided, a sufficient number of booths 
 
for such primary election; which booths -shall be provided with shelves, such 
 supplies and pencils as will enable the voter to prepare his ballot for voting 
 and in which voters may prepare their ballots screened from all observation 
 as to the manner in which they do so; and the guard rail shall be so con- 
 structed and placed that only such persons as are inside said rail can ap- 
 proach within six feet of the ballot box and of such voting booths. The 
 arrangement shall be such that the voting booths can only be reached by 
 passing within said .guard rail. Snch booths shall be within plain view 
 of the election officers, and both they and the ballot boxes shall be within 
 plain view of those outside the guard rh.il. No person other than the election 
 officers and the challengers allowed by law, and those admitted for the pur- 
 pose of voting as hereinafter provided, shall be permitted within the guard 
 rail, except by authority of the election officers to keep order and enforce 
 the law. The number of such voting booths shall not be less than one to 
 every seventy-five voters or fraction thereof who voted at the last preceding 
 election in the precinct or election district. 
 
 Section 10. The County Clerk of each county, or the Board of Election 
 Commissioners, as the case may be, shall prepare and deliver to the judges 
 of each election precinct or election district, one regular election ballot box, 
 two lists of registered voters, wherever such lists are printed, and two 
 registry poll books for such precinct or district, also sufficient poll books, 
 tally sheets, blank affidavits, oaths, statement of votes, and all other blanks, 
 papers and supplies necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Section 11. The registry poll books shall be substantially in the following 
 form: 
 
 REGISTRY POLL BOOK. 
 
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 This is to certify that the above and foregoing is a correct list of primary 
 
 voters at a primary election held on the day of A. D. 
 
 , in the precinct or election district, in the 
 
 delegate district of county of and State of 
 
 Illinois. That at said, primary election the undersigned judges and clerks 
 served as required by law and are entitled to pay therefor. 
 
 Dated. . , 190. .. 
 
 Clerks of Primary Election. 
 
 Judges of Primary Elections 
 
Said registry poll books shall otherwise be in form and shall contain the 
 same certifications as nearly as may be as the poll books used in the regular 
 election; and shall be signed and attested in the same manner, as nearly as 
 may be, as poll books used for the purposes of regular election. 
 
 Section 12. The tally sheets for each political party participating in the 
 primary election shall be substantially in the following form: 
 
 "Tally sheets for (Name of political party) for the 
 
 precinct or election district, in the delegate district, in the 
 
 of county of , for a primary 
 
 election held on the day of ; A. D. 19 " 
 
 The names of the delegates shall be placed on the tally sheets of each 
 political party by the primary clerks in the order in which they appear on 
 the primary ballot. 
 
 Section 13. Any member of a political party desiring or intending to be- 
 come a candidate for the office of United States Senator shall have his name 
 printed upon the official primary ballot of his party in each delegate district 
 by filing in the office of the Secretary of State not less than thirty days be- 
 fore the date of the primary election a request in writing therefor, and the 
 Secretary of State shall, not less than twenty-five days prior to the date of 
 the primary election, certify to the county clerk of each county, and Board 
 of Election Commissioners, where such board exists, the names of all candi- 
 dates for United States Senator, stating in such certificate the political affil- 
 iation of such candidate. The vote upon candidates for United States Senator 
 shall be had for the sole purpose of ascertaining the sentiment of the voters 
 in the respective parties. 
 
 Section 14. Any candidate for nomination for an elective State office, ex- 
 cept Trustees of the State University, shall have his name printed upon the 
 official primary ballot: Provided, at least thirty (30) days prior to the date 
 fixed by law for the primary election, he shall file a petition in the office of 
 the Secretary of State, signed by at least 1,000 qualified primary electors of 
 his party. 
 
 Section 15. Any candidate for nomination for Representative in Congress, 
 or for member of the State Board of Equalization, shall have his name printed 
 upon the official primary ballot: Provided, at least thirty (30) days prior to 
 the date fixed by law for the primary election, he shall file in the office of the 
 Secretary of State a petition signed by at least two (2) per cent of the 
 qualified primary electors of his party in his congressional district. 
 
 Section 16. Any candidate for nomination for member of the General As- 
 sembly shall have his name printed upon the official primary ballot: Pro- 
 vided, at least thirty (30) days prior to the date fixed by law for the primary 
 election, he shall file in the office of the Secretary of State a petition signed 
 by at least two (2) per cent of the qualified primary electors of his party 
 in his senatorial district. 
 
 Section 17. Any candidate for county judge, county clerk, judge of the 
 probate court, clerk of the probate court, clerk of the circuit court, recorder 
 of deeds, county treasurer, county superintendent of schools, county surveyor, 
 sheriff, coroner and State's attorney, shall have his name printed upon the 
 official primary ballot: Provided, at least thirty (30) days prior to the date 
 fixed by law for the primary election he shall file in the office of the county 
 clerk of his county a petition signed by at least two (2) per cent of the quali- 
 fied primary electors of his party in his county. 
 
 Section 18. All petitions required under this Act shall consist of sheets of 
 uniform size, and each sheet shall contain above the space for signatures an 
 appropriate heading giving the information as to name of candidate or candi- 
 dates, in whose behalf such petition is signed; the office, the political party 
 represented, place of residence, and such other information or wording as 
 required to make same valid; and the heading of each sheet shall be the 
 same. Such petitions shall be signed by qualified voters in their own proper 
 persons only, and opposite the signature of each signer his residence address 
 shall be written (and if a resident of a city having a population of over 10,000, 
 by the then last preceding federal census, the street number of such residence 
 shall be given.) No signature shall be valid or be counted in considering the 
 
validity or sufficiency of such petition unless the requirements of this section 
 are complied with, except as herein otherwise provided. At the bottom of each 
 sheet of such petition shall be added a statement, signed by an adult resident 
 of the political division for which the candidate is seeking a nomination, 
 stating his residence address (and if a resident of a city having a population 
 of over 10,000 by the then last preceding federal census, also stating the 
 street and number of such residence,) certifying that the signatures on that 
 sheet of said petition were signed in his presence, and are genuine; and that 
 to the best of his knowledge and belief the persons so signing were at the 
 time of signing said petition qualified voters of the political party for which 
 a nomination is sought, and in cities, villages and incorporated towns in 
 which voters are or may be required to be registered as a condition precedent 
 to the right to vote at general elections, then only such registered voters 
 shall be qualified to sign any such petition or petitions. Such statement shall 
 be sworn to before some officer of the county in which the person making such 
 statement resides, authorized to administer oaths therein. Such sheets, being 
 filed, shall be neatly fastened together in book form, by placing the sheets in 
 a pile and fastening them together at one edge in a secure and suitable man- 
 ner, and the sheets shall then be numbered consecutively. The sheets shall 
 not be fastened by pasting them together, end to end, so as to form a contin- 
 uous strip or roll. Said petition, when filed, shall not be withdrawn or added 
 to, and no signatures shall be revoked except by revocation filed in writing 
 with the clerk or other proper officer with whom the petition is required to 
 be filed, and before the filing of such petition. Whoever, in making the sworn 
 statement, above prescribed, shall knowingly, wilfully and corruptly swear 
 falsely, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and on conviction thereof shall be 
 punished accordingly. Whoever forges any name of a signer upon any peti- 
 tion required by this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a forgery, and on convic- 
 tion thereof shall be punished accordingly. 
 
 If, prior to the taking effect of this Act, any candidate for the nomination 
 for any office for which petitions are required to be filed by this Act, and to be 
 filled at the general election to be held on the Tuesday next after the first 
 Monday in November, A. D. 1906, shall have filed petitions with the Secretary 
 of State or with the County Clerk of any of the counties of the State, the same 
 shall be deemed and held to be good and valid, and a sufficient compliance 
 with the requirements of this Act. 
 
 Petitions of candidates for nomination for offices herein specified, to be 
 filed with the same officer, may contain the names of two or more candidates 
 of the same political party for the same or different offices, and shall be in 
 substantially the following form: 
 
 "We, the undersigned, members of and affiliated with the party 
 
 and qualified electors of said party, in the county of and 
 
 State of Illinois, do hereby petition that the following named person or per- 
 sons shall be a candidate or candidates of the party for the nom- 
 ination for the office or offices hereinafter specified, to be voted for at the 
 primary election to be held on the day of A. D 
 
 Name. 
 
 Office. 
 
 Address. 
 
 John Jones 
 Thomas Smith 
 
 Governor 
 Sheriff 
 
 Belvidere, Illinois. 
 Oakland, Illinois. 
 
 Name Address 
 
 State of Illinois, ) 
 County, f< 
 
 I, , do hereby certify that I am upwards of the age of 
 
 twenty-one years, that I reside at No street, in the of 
 
 County of and State of Illinois, and that the signa- 
 tures on this sheet were signed in my presence, and are genuine, ar.d that to 
 
the best of my knowledge and belief the persons so signing were at the 
 time of signing said petition qualified voters, and that their respective resi- 
 dences are correctly stated, as above set forth. 
 
 State' of Illinois, ) 
 
 County, f Sk 
 
 being duly sworn on his oath, deposes and says that the 
 
 statements made by him in the foregoing certificate by him signed, are true 
 in manner and form as therein stated. 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me, this . day of A. D. 
 
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 Section 19. Not less than twenty-five (25) days prior to the date of the 
 primary election, the Secretary of State shall certify to the County Clerks, or 
 Boards of Election Commissioners, as the case may be, of each county, the 
 names of all candidates for United States Senator, and all candidates for the 
 nomination for all State officers, as specified in this Act and in the petitions 
 on file in his office, together with the names of all candidates for the nomina- 
 tion for Representative in Congress, members of the State Board of Equaliza- 
 tion and members of the General Assembly which are to be voted for in such 
 county, stating in such certificates the political affiliation of each candidate 
 for the nomination, as specified in said petition. 
 
 Section 20. At such primary election the method of voting shall be by 
 ballot. Two forms of ballots shall be used. One form of ballots shall be 
 known and designated as the "Official Primary Ballot," and shall be printed 
 and distributed at public expense, as hereinafter provided. The other form 
 of ballot shall be known and designated as the "Delegate Ballot," and shall 
 be furnished at private expense. No "Delegate Ballot" shall be furnished at 
 public expense. 
 
 Section 21. The county clerk of each county, or the Board of Election 
 Commissioners, as the case may be, shall prepare and cause to be printed the 
 "Official Primary Ballot" of each political party for each delegate district in 
 his or their respective county or jurisdiction, and he or they shall also ten 
 (10) days prior to the date of the primary print and freely distribute at pub- 
 lic expense a sufficient number of "Sample Ballots" to meet the public demand, 
 the same to be printed on paper of the same color or tint as the "Official Pri- 
 mary Ballot" of the respective party, and printed thereon shall be the words 
 "Sample Ballot," in large capital letters, and no such sample ballot shall be 
 voted or counted at the primary of any political party. 
 
 Section 22. It is hereby made the duty of the county clerk or the Board 
 of Election Commissioners, as the case may be, in each county to cause to 
 be printed upon the official primary ballot of each political party for each 
 delegate district in his or their county or jurisdiction, the name of each 
 candidate whose petition has been filed in his or their office, as herein pro- 
 vided; and also the name of each candidate whose name has been certified to 
 his or their office by the Secretary of State. 
 
 Section 23. The "Official Primary Ballot" of each political party shall be 
 separately printed upon paper of uniform quality, texture and size, and in 
 black ink; but the "Official Primary Ballot" of no two political parties shall 
 be of the same color or tint within any one county. 
 
 The "Delegate Ballot" of each political party shall correspond in color with 
 the "Official Primary Ballot" of such political party. The "Delegate Ballot" 
 of each political party shall be of uniform size and ten and one-half (10%) 
 inches in length and seven (7) inches in width. 
 
 The county clerk shall at least thirty (30) days prior to the date of the 
 primary election, post in a conspicuous place in his office an announcement 
 of the color of the primary ballots of the respective parties, and shall also 
 at least thirty days prior thereto publish such announcement for at least 
 one week in at least two newspapers of general circulation in the county. 
 
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 Section 24. The "Official Primary Ballot" of each political party for each 
 delegate district shall be arranged and printed substantially in the manner 
 following: 
 
 1. At the top of the ballot shall be printed in large capital letters words 
 designating the ballot. If a Republican ballot, the designating words shall 
 be "Republican Primary Ballot." If a Democratic ballot, the designating 
 words shall be "Democratic Primary Ballot," and in like manner for each 
 political party. 
 
 2. Beginning not less than one inch below the designating words, the 
 name of each office to be filled shall be printed in capital letters, and in the 
 following order, to-wit: United States Senator, Governor, Lieutenant Gover- 
 nor, Secretary of State, Auditor of Public Accounts, Treasurer, Superintend- 
 ent of Public Instruction, Attorney General, Clerk of the Supreme Court, 
 Clerk of the Appellate Court, Representative in Congress, member of the 
 State Board of Equalization, Members of the General Assembly, and such 
 county officers as are specified in section seventeen of this act. Below the name 
 of each office shall be printed in small letters the directions to the voter, to 
 "Vote for one." Below the name of each office also shall be printed in 
 capital letters the names of all candidates (alphabetically arranged, accord- 
 ing to surnames) for the nomination for said office which are entitled to be 
 placed upon the respective party "Official Primary Ballot." The names of 
 all candidates upon the official primary ballot shall be printed in type of 
 uniform size, and the names shall be printed in a column. Immediately in 
 frone of and opposite the name of each candidate, shall be printed a square 
 and all squares upon the "Official Primary Ballot" shall be of uniform size. 
 Spaces between the names of candidates under each office shall be uniform, 
 and sufficient spaces shall separate the names of candidates for one office 
 from the names of candidates for another office to avoid confusion. A blank 
 space shall be left under the name of each office, and to the left of said blank 
 space shall be printed a square; that is to say, the primary elector is entitled 
 to vote for one candidate, in which said blank space the primary elector may 
 write the name of the candidate of his choice. 
 
 3. That is to say, the official primary ballot shall be prepared, arranged 
 and printed substantially as follows: 
 
 PRIMARY BALLOT 
 
 (Name of party) 
 of the 
 
 DELEGATE DISTRICT in the 
 
 of County of , in 
 
 the State of Illinois. 
 
 FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR. 
 
 (Vote for one.) 
 [] Clarence O. Blakeslee 
 [] Earl Y. Carr 
 
 FOR GOVERNOR. 
 
 (Vote for one.) 
 [] Theodore Gill 
 [] Robert Houston 
 
 FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. 
 
 (Vote for one.) 
 [] Franklin X. Van Keuren 
 [] Hosea N. Wiggs 
 [] Thomas L. Yancey 
 
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 FOR SECRETARY OF STATE. 
 
 (Vote for one.) 
 [] Harry B. Miller 
 [] Isaac T. Spilman 
 [] 
 
 FOR AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. 
 
 (Vote for one.) 
 [] John Grear 
 [] Thomas Jones 
 [] 
 
 FOR TREASURER. 
 
 (Vote for one.) 
 [] William P. Werner 
 [] Harry N. Zwick 
 [] 
 
 FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 
 
 (Vote for one.) 
 [] Seaburn K. Parker 
 [] Frank R. Porter 
 [] David Wilkinson 
 
 FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL. 
 
 (Vote for one.) 
 [] Percy N. Brown 
 [] Robert Forrester 
 [] Howard Kimmel 
 
 FOR CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT. 
 
 (Vote for one.) 
 [] C. E. Teaney 
 [] John B. Winthrop 
 
 FOR CLERK OF THE APPELLATE COURT. 
 
 (Vote for one.) 
 [] John Y. Smith 
 [] Orville C. Watkins 
 
 FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS. 
 
 (Vote for one.) 
 [] Anthony K. Howell 
 [J William N. Saunders 
 
 FOR MEMBER OF THE STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. 
 
 (Vote for one.) 
 [] August Boland 
 [1 C. D. Plumlee 
 
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 FOR STATE SENATOR. 
 
 (Vote for one.) 
 [] Charles O. Rogers 
 [] William K. Sims 
 
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 FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 
 (Vote for one.) 
 
 [] Thomas B. Horn 
 [] James R. Simmons 
 
 FOR COUNTY JUDGE. 
 
 (Vote for one.) 
 [] Francis R. Dry 
 
 (And so on for each county office specified in section 17 of this act.) 
 
 Section 25. On the back, or outside, of the "Official Primary Ballot" of 
 each delegate district, so as to appear when folded, shall be printed the 
 words "Official Primary Ballot," followed by the designation of said dele- 
 gate district, the date of the primary election, and a fac simile of the signa- 
 ture of the county clerk or of the chief clerk of the Board of Election Com- 
 missioners, as the case may be. 
 
 Section 26. The county clerk or the Board of Election Commissioners, 
 as the case may be, shall cause to be delivered to the primary judges of 
 each election precinct or election district, not less than twelve hours before 
 the time fixed for the opening of the polls of the primary election, the 
 official primary ballots of each political party; and the number thereof for 
 each political party in each election precinct or election district shall be one 
 hundred ballots for each fifty votes cast in said election precinct or election 
 district by said political party at the last preceding general election. 
 
 Section 27. The official primary ballots shall be put up in separate 
 sealed packages, with marks on the outside clearly designating the election 
 precinct or election district for which they are intended, and the number 
 of ballots enclosed for each political party, and a receipt therefor shall be 
 given by the primary judge to whom such ballots are delivered, which re- 
 ceipt shall be filed by the county clerk or Board of Election Commissioners, 
 as the case may be, in his or their office. 
 
 Section 28. The county clerk or Board of Election Commissioners, as the 
 case may be, shall provide and retain in his or their office until after the 
 primary election, an ample supply of extra official primary ballots for each 
 political party and for each election precinct or election district, and if at 
 any time before or during the primary election any of the official primary 
 ballots shall be lost, destroyed or exhausted, on written application, signed 
 by such primary judges or any one of them, then said clerk or board shall 
 immediately cause to be delivered to said primary judges such supply of 
 extra official primary ballots as may be required to comply with the pro- 
 visions of this Act. 
 
 Section 29. The "delegate ballot" of each political party shall be arranged 
 substantially as follows: 
 
 1. At the top of the ballot shall be printed in large capital letters words 
 designating the ballot. If a Republican ballot, the designating words shall 
 be "Republican delegate ballot." If a Democratic ballot, the designating 
 words shall be "Democratic delegate ballot," and in like manner for each 
 political party. Then shall follow the date of primary, designation of the 
 delegate district and election precincts comprising the same. 
 
 2. Beginning not less than one inch below the designating words, the 
 name of the conventions to which delegates are to be chosen shall be 
 printed in capital letters, and in the following order, to-wit: State con- 
 vention, congressional convention, senatorial convention, county convention, 
 sanitary district convention and municipal convention for the nomination 
 of candidates to be elected at the November election. 
 
 3. Below the name of each convention shall be printed in a vertical 
 column the names of the requisite number of delegates to which the dele- 
 gate district is entitled in each of said conventions, respectively. 
 
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 4. That is to say, the delegate ballot shall be arranged substantially as 
 follows: 
 
 DELEGATE BALLOT 
 
 to be voted at delegate district of the of 
 
 in county of in the State of Illinois. 
 
 FOR DELEGATES TO THE STATE CONVENTION. 
 John Most 
 Hiram Wheeler 
 
 FOR DELEGATES TO THE CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION. 
 William Hackney 
 Aaron Langley 
 Eb. Frost 
 Ed. Moore 
 
 FOR DELEGATES TO THE SENATORIAL CONVENTION. 
 Louis Moss 
 Robert Thomas 
 Ralph Hampton 
 Levi Francis 
 Wallace Conn 
 
 FOR DELEGATES TO THE SANITARY DISTRICT CONVENTION. 
 Hezekiah Williams 
 Harrington Clanahan 
 Henry Haines 
 
 FOR DELEGATES TO THE MUNICIPAL CONVENTION. 
 
 Reginald Stubbles 
 Bruno Arkbauer 
 William McLain 
 
 FOR DELEGATES TO THE COUNTY CONVENTION 
 
 COUNTY DELEGATE DISTRICT. 
 
 Taylor Button 
 Jacob Woods 
 Jos. Morris 
 Andrew Redden 
 Patrick O'Brien 
 Benjamin Morley 
 Samuel Harris 
 Albert Kersten 
 
 Section 30. The primary judges shall receive from any person or per- 
 sons, and permit to be freely and equally exposed in separate and orderly 
 piles, within the polling place, near the ballot box, and within reach of 
 the voters, a sufficient supply of each of the various delegate ballots of each 
 political party. 
 
 Section 31. Upon the opening of the polls one of the primary election 
 judges shall make proclamation of the same; and at least thirty minutes 
 before the closing of the polls, proclamation shall be made in like manner 
 that the polls will be closed in half an hour. 
 
 Section 32. Before voting begins the ballot box shall be emptied, and it 
 shall be opened and shown to those present, to be empty, after which it 
 shall be locked and the key delivered to one of the primary judges, and such 
 ballot box shall not be moved from public view from the time it was 
 shown to be empty until after close of the polls. 
 
 Section 33. No person shall vote at any primary election unless he shall 
 be a legally qualified voter, and unless he has resided in the election 
 precinct or election district at least thirty (30) days prior to the date of 
 the primary election, and unless he declares his party affiliation, as required 
 
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 by this act, and in all cases where registration is required, as a condition 
 precedent to voting at regular elections, only registered voters shall be 
 permitted to vote at such primary election. 
 
 And no person shall be allowed to vote at a primary election who shall 
 have signed the petition of a candidate of any party with which he does 
 not affiliate, when such candidate is to be voted for at the primary election. 
 
 And no person shall be allowed to vote who shall have signed the nom- 
 inating petition of an independent candidate for any office for which office 
 candidates are to be voted for at said primary election, or if he shall have 
 voted at the primary election of another political party within the period 
 of one year next preceding such primary election. 
 
 Section 34. Any person desiring to vote at a primary election shall state 
 his name, residence and party affiliation to the primary judges, one of whom 
 shall thereupon announce the same in a distinct tone of voice, sufficiently 
 loud to be heard by those present in the polling place. If the person 
 desiring to vote is npt challenged, one of the primary judges shall give 
 to him one, and only one, official primary ballot of the political party 
 with which he declares himself affiliated, on the back of which such primary 
 judge shall endorse his initials in such manner as they may be seen when 
 the official primary ballot is properly folded. If the person desiring to 
 vote is challenged, he shall not receive an official primary ballot from the 
 primary judges until he shall have established his right to vote, as here- 
 inafter provided. No person who refuses to state his party affiliation shall 
 be allowed to vote at a primary election. 
 
 Section 35. Whenever a person offering to vote at a primary election is 
 challenged, the person so challenged shall make and subscribe an affidavit in 
 the following form, which shall be presented to and retained by the primary 
 judges and clerks, and returned by them with the registry poll books: 
 State of Illinois, ) 
 
 County of f 
 
 I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of 
 
 the United States, of the age of twenty-one years or over, and am qualified to 
 vote under and by virtue of the constitution and laws of the State of Illinois, 
 and am a legally qualified voter of this precinct and delegate district; that I 
 now reside at (insert street and number, if any) in this pre- 
 cinct and delegate district, and am a member of and affiliated with the 
 
 party, and have not voted at a primary election of another 
 
 political party within a period of one year prior to this date. 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of A. D. 
 
 190.. 
 
 Judge of Election. 
 
 In addition to such affidavit the person so challenged shall produce the 
 affidavit of one householder of the election precinct or election district who 
 shall be a qualified voter at such primary election, and who shall be personally 
 known or proved to the judges to be a householder in the election precinct or 
 election district, which affidavit shall be in the following form: 
 State of Illinois, } 
 
 County of f Sk 
 
 I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a householder 
 
 of this election precinct or election district and entitled to vote at this pri- 
 mary election, that I am acquainted with (name of the 
 
 party challenged) whose right to vote at this primary election has been chal- 
 lenged: that I know him to be an actual lona fide resident of this election 
 precinct or election district, and that he has resided herein thirty days and I 
 verily believe he has resided in this county ninety days; and in this State 
 
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 one year next preceding this primary election; that I verily believe he is a 
 member and affiliated with the party. 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of A. D. 
 
 190.. 
 
 Judge of Election. 
 
 Section 36. On receiving from the judges an official primary ballot of his 
 party, and having a delegate ballot of his party, the voter shall forthwith and 
 without leaving the polling place, retire alone to one of the voting booths and 
 prepare such official primary ballot by making a cross (X) in the square in 
 front of and opposite the name of each candidate of his choice for each office 
 to be filled. 
 
 Section 37. Before leaving the booth the voter shall fold his official pri- 
 mary ballot in such manner as to conceal the marks thereon. He shall also, 
 before leaving the booth, fold the delegate ballot to be 'voted by him in such 
 manner that none of the printed or written matter on the inside thereof 
 shall be visible. Said voter shall then vote forthwith by handing the primary 
 judge the official primary ballot received by such voter and by delivering to 
 the primary judge one, and only one, delegate ballot of the party with which 
 he declares himself affiliated. Such primary judge shall thereupon mark with 
 pencil the initials of his own name on the back of such delegate ballot as it 
 is folded. Thereupon the primary judge shall deposit such official primary 
 ballot and such delegate ballot, in the ballot box. The primary clerk shall 
 thereupon enter in the registry poll books the name of the voter, his residence 
 and his party affiliation/ 
 
 Section 38. Any primary elector who may declare upon oath that he can- 
 not read the English language, or that by reason of any physical disability he 
 is unable to mark his official primary ballot, shall, upon request, be assisted in 
 marking his official primary ballot in the same manner as provided by the 
 general election laws of this State; and shall also, upon request, be assisted 
 in selecting and preparing his delegate ballot. 
 
 Section 39. After the opening of the polls at a primary election, no ad- 
 journment shall be had, nor recess taken -until all the votes cast at such pri- 
 mary election shall have been counted and canvassed. 
 
 Section 40. The votes shall be canvassed in the room or place where the 
 primary election is held and the primary judges shall not allow the ballot 
 box or any of the ballots, or the registry poll books, or any of the tally sheets 
 to be removed or carried away from such room or polling place until the 
 canvass of the votes is completed and the returns carefully enveloped and 
 sealed up. Each of the judges is hereby empowered to administer and certify 
 oaths required during a primary election. 
 
 Section 41.- If a primary, elector marks more names upon any official pri- 
 mary ballot than there are persons to be nominated as candidates for an office, 
 or if, for any reason, it is impossible to determine the primary elector's choice 
 of a candidate for the nomination for an office, his official primary ballot shall 
 not be counted for the nomination for such office. 
 
 No official primary ballot or delegate ballot, without the endorsement of the 
 judges' initials thereon, shall be counted. Any judge wilfully omitting to en- 
 dorse his initials on official primary ballots or delegate ballots, as required by 
 this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine not 
 exceeding one hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 Official primary ballots' not counted shall be marked "defective" on the back 
 thereof; and official primary ballots to which objection has been made by 
 either of the primary judges or challengers shall be marked "objected to" on 
 the back thereof; and a memorandum signed by the primary judges stating 
 how .it was counted shall be written upon the back of each official primary 
 ballot so marked, and all official primary ballots marked "defective" or 
 "objected to" shall be inclosed in an envelope and securely sealed, and so 
 marked and endorsed as to clearly disclose its contents. 
 
 All official primary ballots not voted, and all that have been spoiled by 
 voters while attempting to vote, shall be returned by the primary judges to 
 
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 the County Clerk or Board of Election Commissioners and a receipt taken 
 therefor, and shall be preserved three months. Such official shall keep a 
 record of the number of official primary ballots delivered for each polling 
 place, the name of the person to whom and the time when delivered, and 
 he or they shall also enter upon such record the number and character of 
 official primary- ballots returned, with the time when and the persons by 
 whom they are returned. 
 
 Section 42. Unless delegate ballots comply substantially with this act in 
 size and color, the same shall be void for all purposes, and shall not be re- 
 ceived, deposited or counted by any primary judge at any such primary 
 election; and all delegate ballots not in accordance with the provisions of this 
 act, and which by any mistake may have been deposited in the ballot box shall 
 be void and shall be marked "defective" on the back thereof; but no delegate 
 ballot shall be defective because the primary elector depositing the same has 
 named upon it a less number of delegates than such primary elector is en- 
 titled to vote for. If the primary elector votes for more persons than there 
 are delegates to be elected to a certain convention, or if for any reason it is 
 impossible for the primary judges to determine the voter's choice, such dele- 
 gate ballot, or part thereof, shall not be counted. Delegate ballots not counted 
 shall be marked "defective" on the back thereof and delegate ballots to which 
 objection has been made by either of the primary judges or challengers shall 
 be marked "objected to" on the back thereof, and a memorandum signed by 
 the judges, stating how it was counted, shall be written upon the back of each 
 delegate ballot so marked; and all delegate ballots marked "defective" or 
 "objected to" shall be inclosed in an envelope, securely sealed, and so marked 
 and endorsed as to clearly disclose its contents. 
 
 Section 43. Immediately upon closing the polls, the primary judges shall 
 proceed to canvass the votes polled in manner following: 
 
 (1) They shall first separate the official primary ballots from the delegate 
 ballots, rejecting all ballots upon which the initials of a primary judge do not 
 appear. 
 
 (2) The primary judges shall then proceed to ascertain the number of 
 names entered on the registry poll books under each party affiliation. 
 
 (3) If the official primary or delegate ballots of any political party exceed 
 the number of names of voters of such political party entered on the registry 
 poll books, the official primary ballots and the delegate ballots of such political 
 party shall be folded and replaced in the ballot box, each separately, and the 
 box closed and well shaken and again opened; and one of the judges, who 
 shall be blindfolded, shall draw out and destroy so many of the official primary 
 ballots and delegate ballots respectively of such political party as shall be 
 equal to such excess. 
 
 (4) The primary judges shall thereupon arrange the official primary bal- 
 lots and the delegate ballots of each political party in separate piles. 
 
 (5) The primary judges shall then proceed to count the official primary 
 ballots of each political party separately; and as the primary judges shall open 
 and read the official primary ballot, each primary clerk shall carefully and 
 correctly mark upon the tally sheets the votes which each candidate of the 
 party whose name is written or printed on the official primary ballot has re- 
 ceived in a separate column for that purpose, with the name of such candi- 
 date, the name of his political party and the name of the office for which he 
 is a candidate for nomination, at the head of such column. 
 
 (6) The primary judges shall then proceed to count the delegate ballots 
 of each political party separately, in accordance with the provisions of an 
 act entitled "An Act to dispense with individual tally marks in .can- 
 vassing the so-called 'straight ticket' at all elections hereafter held in 'this 
 State; and concerning the duties of the clerks in the canvass of votes at 
 such election," approved May 13, 1905, in force July 1, 1905. 
 
 Section 44. As soon as the ballots of a political party shall have been 
 read, and the votes of said political party counted, as provided in the last 
 above section, the primary clerks shall foot up the tally sheets so as to 
 show the total number of votes cast for each candidate of each said 
 
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 political party and the total number of votes cast for each delegate to 
 the State, Congressional, Senatorial, Sanitary District, Municipal, where 
 municipal officers are to be elected at the November election, and County 
 conventions respectively, and the total number of votes cast by said political 
 party and certify the same to be correct. Thereupon the primary judges 
 shall set down in the registry poll booKS, under the name of said political 
 party, the name of each candidate voted for upon the official primary 
 ballot, written at full length, the name of the office for which he is a can- 
 didate for nomination, the total number of votes which said candidate 
 received, and the total number of votes cast by said political party at said 
 primary election, and the primary election judges shall certify the same to 
 be true and correct; said entry in the registry books to be made sub- 
 stantially in the following form: 
 
 PARTY. 
 
 At the primary election held in this election precinct (or election dis- 
 trict) on the day of A. D. 19 , the respective 
 
 candidates whose names were written or printed on the official primary 
 ballot of said party, received respectively the fol- 
 lowing votes: 
 
 Name of Candidate. 
 
 Title of Office. 
 
 Number of Votes. 
 
 John Smith 
 Sam Jones 
 Frank Martin 
 William Preston 
 
 Tom Johnson 
 Frederick Johns 
 
 Governor 
 Governor 
 Attorney General 
 Representative in 
 Congress 
 State Senator 
 County Judge 
 
 100 
 70 
 150 
 
 206 
 74 
 59 
 
 And so on for each candidate. 
 
 Total number of votes cast by said party 
 
 We hereby certify the above and foregoing to be true and correct. 
 Dated this day of A. D. 19 
 
 Primary Judges. 
 
 The primary judges shall also set down in the registry poll books the 
 name of each candidate voted for, for delegates to the State, Congressional, 
 Senatorial, County, Sanitary District and Municipal conventions for the 
 nomination of such municipal officers as are to be elected at the November 
 elections respectively, of each political party, the designation of the con- 
 vention to which he is a candidate for delegate, the total number of votes 
 which said candidate for delegate to the respective conventions received; and 
 the judges shall certify the same to be true and correct; said entry in the 
 registry poll books to be made substantially in the following form: 
 PARTY. 
 
 At the primary election held in this election precinct (or delegate dis- 
 trict) on the day of A. D. 19 the following named 
 
 persons received the number of votes set opposite their respective names for 
 delegates to the following described conventions, to-wit: 
 
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 STATE CONVENTION. 
 
 Name of Candidate for Delegate. 
 
 Number of Votes Received. 
 
 John Smith 
 Charles Brown 
 William Lee 
 James Jones 
 
 100 
 125 
 100 
 200 
 
 CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION. 
 
 I 
 Name of Candidate for Delegate. Number of Votes Received. 
 
 I 
 
 John Smith 
 
 100 
 
 Charles Brown 
 
 125 
 
 William Lee 
 
 100 
 
 James Jones 
 
 200 
 
 SENATORIAL CONVENTION. 
 
 Name of Candidate for Delegate. 
 
 Number of Votes Received. 
 
 John Smith 
 Charles Brown 
 William Lee 
 James Jones 
 
 100 
 125 
 100 
 200 
 
 SANITARY DISTRICT CONVENTION. 
 
 Name of Candidate for Delegate. 
 
 Number of Votes Received. 
 
 Harrington Clanahan 
 Hezekiah Williams 
 William McLain 
 Henry Haines 
 
 200 
 125 
 100 
 200 
 
 MUNICIPAL CONVENTION. 
 
 Name of Candidate for Delegate. 
 
 Number of Votes Received. 
 
 J. C. Williams 
 A. Carman 
 W. A. Royer 
 M. Smith 
 
 200 
 125 
 100 
 200 
 
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 COUNTY CONVENTION. 
 
 Name of Candidate for Delegate. 
 
 Number of Votes Received. 
 
 John Smith 
 Charles Brown 
 William Lee 
 James Jones 
 
 100 
 125 
 100 
 200 
 
 We hereby certify the above and foregoing to be true and correct. 
 Dated this day of A. D. 19 
 
 Primary Judges. 
 
 Section 45. After the votes of a political party shall have been counted 
 and set down, the tally sheets footed, and the entry made in the registry 
 poll books, as above provided, all the official primary ballots and delegate 
 ballots of said political party, except those marked "defective" or "objected 
 to" shall be strung upon a strong thread or twine or wire, separately for 
 official primary ballots and delegate ballots, in the order in which they have 
 been read, and shall thereupon be carefully sealed in an envelope, which 
 envelope shall be endorsed as follows: 
 
 "Election precinct (or election district) ballots of the party 
 
 of the election precinct (or election district) of the 
 
 of the in the County of and the State of Illinois." 
 
 Section 46. The registry poll books, with the certificate of the primary 
 judges written thereon, and the tally sheets, together with the envelopes con- 
 taining the ballots, shall be carefully enveloped and sealed up together, 
 properly endorsed, and put into the hands of the primary judges, who shall 
 within forty-eight hours thereafter deliver the same to the county clerk or 
 Board of Election Commissioners, as the case may be, at his or their office, 
 who shall safely keep the same for three months. 
 
 Section 47. Within forty-eight hours after the vote in each precinct has 
 been canvassed, the judges of each precinct shall return to the county clerk, 
 or the board of election commissioners, as the case may be, the tally sheets 
 showing the vote for delegates in such precinct of each party. And it shall 
 be the duty of the county clerk or the board of election commissioners, as the 
 case may be, to add together the vote of all the precincts in each delegate 
 district for each delegate to each convention, and such county clerk, or board 
 of election commissioners, as the case may be, shall prepare a certificate of 
 election as delegate, to each of the number of persons, corresponding in num- 
 ber to the number of delegates to be elected for each party, in such delegate 
 district, who have received the highest number of votes in such party for 
 delegate or delegates to such conventions of such party. In case, in any party 
 two or more persons shall receive the same and the highest number of votes 
 cast for delegates to any convention, and such delegate district is not entitled 
 to the number of delegates receiving such vote, the county clerk or the board 
 of election commissioners, as the case may be, shall decide by lot which per- 
 son or persons shall be entitled to such certificate of election, and shall there- 
 upon issue and deliver such certificate to each such person so entitled or to 
 his agent authorized in writing to receive the same. Such certificate shall be 
 prima facie evidence of the right of the person named thereon to a seat in 
 the convention therein named, and shall be substantially as follows: 
 
 " Party Credentials. 
 
 Credentials of delegates of the party of the 
 
 delegate district in the county (or ward) of 
 
 and State of Illinois, to the convention of 
 
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 We (or I) hereby certify that at a primary election held in said delegate 
 
 district, consisting of the election precinct or precincts on the 
 
 day of A. D. 190 (name of delegate) 
 
 was duly elected a delegate to represent the party in the 
 
 convention; and that said is a duly qualified 
 
 delegate of the party, of said delegate district, and as such is 
 
 entitled to a seat in the convention to be held at 
 
 on the day of A. D. 190. . . and is instructed 
 
 to vote for one ballot for the following candidates for the following offices, 
 to-wit: 
 
 In Witness Whereof, I (or we) have hereunto set my (or our) hand (or 
 hands) this day of A. D. 190. . . 
 
 Section 48. As soon as the complete returns are delivered to the county 
 clerk, or board of election commissioners, as the case may be, he, or they, 
 shall, with the assistance of the county judge, canvass all the returns and 
 make separate tabulated statements for each political party. Each of such 
 statements shall show, in appropriate columns and under proper headings, 
 the total number of votes cast in each delegate district for each candidate for 
 nomination for office. Each county clerk and each Board of Election Com- 
 missioners, within five days after the primary election, shall send to the 
 Secretary of State the total vote for each candidate for United States Senator 
 of each political party. 
 
 Section 49. Each statement, provided to be made in the foregoing section, 
 and each sheet of paper forming a part of such statement, shall be subscribed 
 by the county clerk or the board of election commissioners, as the case may 
 be, and the county judge. One such statement shall be properly sealed, sent 
 to or delivered to the chairman of the county central committee of the party, 
 and another copy of such statement shall be properly endorsed and together 
 with the ballot box, ballots, books, blanks, reports and other papers and 
 records shall be preserved by the person, officer or board of election commis- 
 sioners, as the case may be, who is charged by the general election laws with 
 the duty of preserving election returns; and such ballots and records shall be 
 preserved by such person, officer or board, as the case may be, for the period 
 of three months, and may be examined, in case of contest, by like officials as 
 now provided by the general laws in case of contest over the result of an 
 election. 
 
 Section 50. If, upon the completion of the canvass of such returns, it ap- 
 pears thereupon that any candidate of any party for the nomination for any 
 State, congressional or senatorial office has received a plurality of all the 
 votes cast for candidates for nomination for such office in any delegate dis- 
 trict such candidate shall have cast for, him the votes of all the delegates 
 from such delegate district to the convention before which he is a candidate, 
 for at least the first ballot. Nominations shall be made by majority vote of 
 all of the delegates elected to each convention. 
 
 Section 51. As soon as the returns are all in the office of the Secretary of 
 State, they shall be canvassed by the same persons, officials or board as are 
 directed by the general election laws to canvass returns after a general elec- 
 tion. Such canvassing board shall,, without delay, open the returns and 
 certify tabulated statements thereof separately for each political party. Such 
 statement shall show under appropriate headings the total number of votes 
 cast, and the total vote for each candidate for United States Senator. Such 
 canvassing board shall cause to be delivered to the Secretary of State within 
 five days next following such county convention a statement as to the vote 
 cast for each candidate for United States Senator by each political party. 
 The Secretary of State shall cause to be delivered to the secretary of the 
 
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 State convention of the respective political parties next following such 
 primary election a statement showing the total vote cast for each such can- 
 didate for United States Senator and the total vote polled. 
 
 Section 52. The expense of providing polling places, booths and other 
 supplies required in this Act for holding primary elections shall be paid in 
 the same manner and by the same officials as general or regular election 
 expenses. The primary election judges and clerks shall receive the same pay, 
 be paid by the same officials and in the same manner as judges and clerks 
 under the general election laws of this State. 
 
 Section 53. All county conventions shall be held on the Thursday imme- 
 diately following said primary election day. 
 
 All senatorial conventions shall be held on the second Tuesday immediately 
 following the said primary election day: Provided, that where a county 
 constitutes a senatorial district, the senatorial convention for such district 
 shall be held on the same day as the county convention, and the delegates 
 elected to the county convention shall be ex-officio delegates to the senatorial 
 convention, and the county committees of such counties shall be ex-officio the 
 senatorial committees for such senatorial district. 
 
 All congressional conventions shall be held on the second Thursday im- 
 mediately following said primary election day. 
 
 All State conventions shall be held on the third Tuesday after the primary 
 election. 
 
 Section 54. No person other than a delegate shall be elected as an officer 
 of any convention, and the chairman of all conventions shall be elected by a 
 roll call. After the election of the chairman, the convention shall proceed to 
 elect such other officers of the convention as it may determine. 
 
 Section 55. None but legally qualified voters residing in the delegate dis- 
 trict to be represented shall be eligible as delegates to any convention of such 
 party. Judges and clerks acting as such at any primary election shall be 
 ineligible as delegates to any such convention, except such judges of election 
 as hold their positions by virtue of being the holders of an elective office. 
 No person shall act as a delegate in any such convention except when elected 
 as a delegate, according to this Act: Provided, that in the absence of a 
 delegate or delegates, then the delegates present representing the district 
 shall select some one to represent such absent delegate or delegates. If no 
 delegates from a given district are present, then the delegates from the ward, 
 division or township shall select any qualified member or members of the 
 party as delegates to fill such vacancy or vacancies: Provided, that any and 
 all delegates who are selected to represent such absent delegates shall stand 
 instructed to vote in the convention the same as such absent delegate or 
 delegates were instructed to vote. 
 
 Section 56. No delegate to any convention held under the provisions of 
 this act shall have any power or authority to name or appoint any proxy or 
 substitute to vote for or in his stead, and no proxy or substitute appointed 
 by any delegate shall be binding or effective on any convention or conventions 
 held under the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Section 57. For all nominations made by conventions held under the pro- 
 visions of this Act, a certificate of nomination shall be duly made .and filed. 
 
 Every such certificate of nomination shall state: 
 
 (1) The name of the candidate nominated. 
 
 (2) The office to which he is nominated. 
 
 (3) The party which he represents, expressed in not more than five words. 
 
 (4) His place of residence, with the street and number thereof, if any. 
 Every such certificate of nomination shall be signed by the presiding officer 
 
 and by the secretary of the convention, who shall add to their signatures their 
 places of residence. Such certificates of nomination shall be sworn to by 
 them to be true, to the best of their knowledge and belief, and a certificate of 
 the oath shall be annexed to the certificate of nomination. 
 
 Such certificate of nomination for candidates for State, Congressional and 
 Senatorial offices shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State at least 
 
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 thirty (30) days previous to the day of election for which the candidates are 
 nominated. 
 
 Certificates for nomination for county offices shall be filed in the office of 
 the county clerk of the respective counties at least thirty (30) days previous 
 to the day of such election. 
 
 Section 58. Any convention of any political party is hereby authorized to 
 fill vacancies in the manner prescribed by said convention. 
 
 Section 59. When a vacancy shall occur in any elective office and a 
 special election shall become necessary to fill the same, the managing com- 
 mittee of the several political parties for the territorial area in which such 
 vacancy occurs shall nominate the candidate or candidates for the respective 
 parties to fill such vacancy. 
 
 Section 60. Any candidate whose name appears upon the official primary 
 ballot of any political party in any delegate district may contest the primary 
 election held in said county or any of the districts thereof, as to the office 
 for which he was a candidate for nomination by filing with the clerk of the 
 county court of the county in which such district is located a petition in 
 writing, setting forth the grounds of contest, which petition shall be verified 
 by affidavit of the petitioner. Any candidate for a delegate whose name 
 appears upon the delegate ballot of any political party in any delegate dis- 
 trict may contest the primary election held in said delegate district as to 
 the position of delegate to the convention for which he was a candidate, by 
 filing with the clerk of the county court of his respective county a petition 
 in writing, setting forth the grounds of contest, which petition shall be veri- 
 fied by affidavit of the petitioner. 
 
 Authority and jurisdiction are hereby vested in the county court, and in the 
 judge thereof in vacation, to hear and determine primary election contests. 
 When a petition to contest a primary election shall be filed in the office of 
 the clerk of the county court, said petition shall forthwith be presented to 
 the judge thereof, who shall note thereon the day of presentation, and shall 
 also note thereon the day when he will hear the same, which shall not be 
 more than five days thereafter, and shall order issuance of summons to each 
 defendant named in the petition. 
 
 Summons shall forthwith issue to each defendant named in the petition, 
 and shall be served in the same manner as is provided in cases in chancery. 
 The case may be heard and determined by the county court in term time, or 
 by the judge thereof in vacation, at any time not less than two days after 
 service of process, and shall have preference in the order of hearing to all 
 other cases. The petitioner shall give security for all costs. 
 
 If, in the opinion of the court in which the petition is filed, the grounds for 
 contest alleged are insufficient in law, the petition shall be dismissed. If the 
 grounds alleged in the petition are sufficient, the court shall proceed in a 
 summary manner, and may hear evidence, examine the returns, recount the 
 ballots and make such orders and enter such judgments as justice may 
 require. The court shall hear and determine the case before the date fixed 
 by law for the county convention. The judgment of the court shall be final. 
 
 Section 61. No spiritous, malt, vinous or intoxicating liquor shall be sold 
 or given away, nor shall any saloon or bar room or place where such liquor 
 is sold or given away, be open during the holding of any primary election. 
 Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be fined in a si^m not 
 less than $25 nor more than $100. It shall be the duty of the sheriff, coroner, 
 constable and other officers of the county, and magistrates and mayors of 
 cities to see that the provisions of this section are enforced. 
 
 (1) If any person whose vote is challenged, or any witness sworn under 
 the provisions of this Act, shall knowingly, wilfully and corruptly swear 
 falsely, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and on conviction thereof shall 
 be punished accordingly. 
 
 (2) Whoever unlawully votes more than once at any election, or offers to 
 vote after having once voted at such election, shall, on conviction thereof, 
 be fined in a sum not exceeding $1,000, or imprisoned in the county jail not 
 exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. 
 
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 (3) Whoever wilfully aids or abets any one not legally qualified to vote 
 at an election, in voting or attempting to vote at such election; or, 
 
 Second. Furnishes an elector with a ticket or ballot informing him that 
 it contains a name different from that which appears thereon, with intent to 
 induce him to vote contrary to his inclinations; or, 
 
 Third. Changes a ballot of an elector, with intent to deprive such elector 
 of voting for such person as he intended; or, 
 
 Fourth. By unlawful means prevents or attempts to prevent any voter 
 from attending or voting at an election; or, 
 
 Fifth. Gives, or offers to give, any valuable thing or bribe to any judge or 
 clerk of an election, as a consideration of some act to be done or omitted to 
 be done contrary to his official duty in relation to such election, shall on 
 conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not exceeding $1,000, or imprisoned in 
 the county jail not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. 
 And any judge or clerk who shall receive, request or demand any bribe or 
 reward forbidden by this Act shall, upon conviction, be liable to the same 
 penalties as are prescribed in this Act for the giving or offering to give such 
 bribe or reward. 
 
 Any person who shall solicit, request, demand or receive, directly or in- 
 directly, any money, intoxicating liquor or any other thing of value, or the 
 promise thereof, either to influence his vote, or to be used, or under the 
 pretense of being used to procure the vote of any other person or persons, or 
 to be used at any poll or other place prior to or on the day of an election for 
 or against any candidate for office, or for or against any measure or question 
 to be voted upon at such election, shall be deemed guilty of the infamous 
 crime of bribery in elections, and upon conviction thereof in any court of 
 record, shall be sentenced to disfranchisement by the judge of such court 
 for a term of not less than five and not more than fifteen years, and to the 
 county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, and to pay 
 the cost of prosecution and stand committed to the county jail until such 
 costs are fully paid. That for a conviction of a second offense under this 
 section, the first being alleged and proven, such offender shall be by sentence 
 of the court forever thereafter disfranchised and deprived of the right to 
 vote at an election in this State, and be imprisoned in the county jail not 
 less than one year, and be committed to jail in default of the payment of 
 costs of prosecution until such costs are fully paid. Prosecutions may be 
 had under this section by indictment in the circuit court, or by information 
 in the county courts, and the effect of a sentence of disfranchisement in 
 either of said courts, both having jurisdiction of offenses hereunder, shall 
 be to deprive such persons sentenced of the right to vote at any general or 
 special election, or town meeting, within this State for the period of time 
 fixed by the court where such person shall be convicted under this section. 
 Any candidate or other paying, furnishing or promising to pay or furnish or 
 bribing such person, with money, intoxicating liquor, or any other thing of 
 value, or the promise thereof, shall not be liable to punishment therefor, 
 but shall be a competent witness and compelled to testify in prosecutions 
 under this section. Solicitation of any person of a loan of money, or the 
 purchase of anything of value, or any other subterfuge, shall be deemed a 
 violation thereof. 
 
 Second. Any person who shall have been legally convicted and disfran- 
 chised by a court of competent jurisdiction, who shall before the expiration 
 of his term of disfranchisement, vote or offer to vote at any general or special 
 election, or town meeting within this State, shall, upon indictment and con- 
 viction thereof in a court of competent jurisdiction, be confined in the pen- 
 itentiary for a term of years, not less than one or more than ten years. 
 
 (6) Whoever is disorderly at any election shall forfeit a sum not exceed- 
 ing $25. 
 
 (7) Whoever bets or wagers any money, property or other valuable thing 
 upon the result of an election which may be held under the Constitution or 
 laws of this State, or bets or wagers money, property or other valuable thing 
 upon the number of votes which may be given to any person at an election, 
 
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 or upon who shall receive the greatest number of votes at an election; or 
 agrees to pay any other person any money, property or other valuable thing, 
 in an event that an election shall result in one way, or in the event that 
 any person shall or shall not be elected, or shall receive a greater number of 
 votes than others, upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not ex- 
 ceeding $1,000, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding one year, or 
 both, in the discretion of the court. 
 
 If any judge of an election shall permit a person to vote whose vote is 
 challenged, without the proof required in this Act; or, 
 
 Second. Shall knowingl-y and wilfully permit a person to testify as a 
 witness contrary to the provisions of this Act; or, 
 
 Third. Shall knowingly permit a person to vote who is not qualified ac- 
 cording to law; or the same election for the same office, except as allowed 
 by law; or, 
 
 Fourth. Shall knowingly receive and count more than one vote from the, 
 same person at the same election for the same office, except as allowed by 
 law; or, 
 
 Fifth. Shall refuse to receive the vote of a qualified elector at such elec- 
 tion, who will make the affidavit and proof required by this Act; or, 
 
 Sixth. Shall be guilty of any fraud, corruption, partiality or manifest mis- 
 behavior; or, 
 
 Seventh. Shall open or unfold any ballot when the same is presented to 
 be deposited in the ballot box; or, 
 
 Eighth. Shall wilfully neglect to perform any of the duties required of 
 him by this Act, shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of contempt 
 of the county court. 
 
 (9) If any clerk of an election shall wilfully neglect to perform any 
 duty required of him as clerk of election, or shall be guilty of fraud, cor- 
 ruption or misbehavior as such clerk, he shall, on conviction, be fined in a 
 sum not exceeding $500, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six 
 months, or both, in the discretion of the court. 
 
 (10) If any judge, clerk or messenger, after having been deputed by the 
 judges of election to carry the poll books, tally lists and votes of such elec- 
 tion to the place where by law they are required to be canvassed, wilfully or 
 negligently fails to deliver such poll books, tally lists or ballots, within the 
 time prescribed by law, with the seal unbroken, he shall, upon conviction, 
 be fined in a sum not exceeding $500, or imprisoned in the county jail not 
 exceeding six months, or both, in the discretion of the court. 
 
 (11) If the county clerk wilfully neglects or refuses to perform any duty 
 required of him by this Act, he shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum 
 not exceeding $500, and shall be liable to the person injured by reason of 
 such neglect or refusal, in an amount not exceeding $500, to be recovered in 
 an action on the case. 
 
 (12) If any county clerk or justice of the peace shall be guilty of fraud, 
 corruption or misbehavior in canvassing the votes or making any abstract 
 of votes or issuing any certificate of election, he shall, on conviction, be fined 
 in any sum not exceeding $500, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding 
 one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. 
 
 (13) Whoever shall wilfully and wrongfully take or carry away from the 
 place where it has been deposited for safe keeping, or deface, mutilate or 
 change any poll book, ballot or tally list, or any name or figure therein, shall 
 on conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding $1,000, or imprisoned in the 
 county jail not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. 
 
 If any judge of election, clerk or other officer of election, of whom any duty 
 is required in this Act, or by the general laws of this State, for the omission 
 of which duty no punishment is provided, shall be guilty of any wilful 
 neglect of such duty or of any corrupt or fraudulent conduct or practice in 
 the execution of the same, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged 
 guilty of a misdemeanor under this Act. 
 
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 Any person or member of a board, or any judge of election, clerk or other 
 officer, who is guilty of stealing, wilfully and wrongfully breaking, de- 
 stroying, mutilating, defacing, falsifying or unlawfully removing or secret- 
 ing, or detaining the whole or any part of any ballot box or receptacle for 
 ballots, or any record, registry of voters, or copy thereof, oath, return or 
 statement of votes, certificate, .poll list, or of any paper or document provided 
 for in this Act; 
 
 Or who shall fraudulently make any entry, erasure, or alteration therein, 
 except as allowed and directed by the provisions of this Act, or who per- 
 mits^any other person so to do, shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged 
 guilty of a felony under this Act. 
 
 Every person who advises, procures or abets the commission of any of the 
 acts mentioned in the last preceding two paragraphs, shall, upon conviction 
 thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony under this Act. 
 
 If any person knowingly or wilfully shall obstruct, hinder or assault, or 
 by bribery, solicitation or otherwise interfere with any judge of election, 
 clerk or challenger, in the performance of any duty required of him, or 
 which he may be by law authorized or permitted to perform; 
 
 If any person, knowing that he is not qualified to vote at such primary 
 election, takes a place in any line of voters waiting to vote at an election, 
 or if any person, after having voted at such election, takes a place in such 
 waiting line, or if any person repeatedly takes a place in such waiting line 
 without voting when the opportunity comes, and who systematically gives up 
 his place in such waiting line, such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be 
 adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor under this Act. 
 
 If any person shall commit any act prohibited herein, or refrain from doing 
 any act or duty required to be done herein, and if any person shall in any 
 manner be guilty of a violation of this act, whether the same is denominated 
 an offense or not, and for which no punishment is herein specially pro- 
 vided, such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a 
 misdemeanor under this Act. 
 
 Any person adjudged guilty of an offense denominated a misdemeanor 
 under this Act, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor 
 more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or shall be imprisoned in the 
 county jail not less than one month nor more than two years, or any such 
 person may be punished by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Any person adjudged guilty of an offense denominated a felony in this Act 
 shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one 
 year nor more than five years. 
 
 If any person shall wilfully disobey any lawful command of any judge 
 of election, given in the execution of his duty as such, at any such primary 
 election, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misde- 
 meanor under this Act. 
 
 If, on any day of primary election, or during the canvass of the votes cast 
 thereat, any person shall cause any breach of the peace or be guilty of any 
 disorderly violence, or threats of violence, whereby any such election or can- 
 vass shall be impeded or hindered, or whereby the lawful proceedings of any 
 judge of election or clerk, or other officer of such election or challenger, are 
 interfered with, or cause intoxicating liquors to be brought or sent to the 
 polling place, every such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor under this Act. 
 
 Any person who votes with a certain party at such primary election, when 
 he knows he is not qualified so to vote under the provisions of this Act, shall, 
 upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor under this Act. 
 
 Section 62. In all prosecutions and in all contests under this Act it shall 
 be the duty of the county clerk or of the board of election commissioners, or 
 other officer, having the custody thereof, to produce, open, exhibit and offer 
 in evidence any notice, ballot box, register book, bundle of ballots, returns, 
 statements, or other documents or papers relating to the particular prosecu- 
 tion or contest for the purpose of enabling a full investigation. 
 
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 Section 63. Irregularities or defects in the mode of calling, giving notice 
 of, convening, holding or conducting any primary election authorized by law 
 shall constitute no defense to a prosecution for a violation of this Act. When 
 'an offense shall be committed in relation to any primary election an indict- 
 ment for such offense shall be sufficient, if it allege that such election was 
 authorized by law, without stating the call or notice of election aforesaid, the 
 names of the judges or clerks holding such election, or the names of the per- 
 sons voted for at such election. Judicial notice shall be taken of the holding 
 of any election thereunder on any primary election day. 
 
 Section 64. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 Approved May 23, 1906.