Fourth-Furnishes a voter with a ticket or ballot informing him that it contains a name or names different from those which appear thereon, with the intent to induce him to vote contrary to his intentions; or,

Fifth-Fraudulently or deceitfully changes a ballot of a voter with intent to prevent such voter from voting for such person as he intended: or.

Sixth-Endeavors to prevent the voting of any voter, or the exercise of lawful influence by any person over a voter at such election for himself or for or against any person, by means of violence or threats of violence, or threats of withdrawing custom or dealing in business or trade, or enforcing the payment of a debt or bringing a suit or criminal prosecution, or any other threat of injury to be inflicted by him or by such means; or

Seventh-By bribery or corrupt or unlawful means, prevents or attempts to prevent any voter from attending or voting at such election; or

Eighth Gives or offers to give any valuable thing or bribe to any judge or clerk of such election, as a consideration for some act to be done or omitted to be done contrary to his duty in relation to such election, or shall interfere with or disturb in any manner any election held under the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than two nor more than six months, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS.] [Section 343, original act.] Section 10. The judges of such primary election or elections shall not require any other or further qualifications of voters at such primary election than those provided in this act, and they shall permit a challenger for each adverse interest or party in the result of such primary election to be and remain within each polling place where such primary election is being held, and give ample time and opportunity to any challenger or any other person to challenge each vote as the same is presented; said challengers shall be residents of the primary districts for which they are chosen. The poll list shall contain the name of each voter with his residence in the order which the yotes were cast, and the judges and clerks shall see to it that the ballot cast by each voter shall receive the same number that is entered opposite the name of such voter on such poll list in the order of and as the votes are cast.

FORM OF POLL AND TALLY LISTS.] [Section 344, original act.] Section 11. The following is substantially the form of the poll lists and tally lists to be kept by the judges of election:

POLL LIST

Of the primary election held in the...

..primary election

ward of.... ..in the county of....

A B, C D and

district of the. on the........ day of..........in the year.... E F, judges; and A B and C D, clerks of said........election, were respectively sworn (or affirmed) as the law directs previous to their entering on the duties of their respective offices.

Number and name of electors voting:

We hereby certify that the number of electors voting at this elec

Names of persons voted for, and for what position, and number of votes given for each candidate.

We hereby certify that A B had..

votes for.

that E F had.....

A B,

C D,

E F.

Judges of Election.

OATHS.] [Section 345, original act.] Section 12. Any one of the judges may administer and certify oaths required to be administered during the progress of an election held under this act.

HOW BALLOTS PRINTED.] [Section 346, original act.] Section 13. When the primary election is held for the election of delegates the ballots shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, and when printed or partly printed and partly written they shall be upon plain white paper without distinguishing marks, the paper to be common print paper and the ballots to be 3 by 6 inches in size.

BALLOT BOX-HOW KEPT.[ [Section 347, original act.] Section 14. Before receiving any ballots the board must, in the presence of the persons assembled at the polling place, open and exhibit and then close the ballot box; and thereafter it must not be removed from the polling place, nor the view of the by-standers, until all the ballots are counted, nor must it be opened until after the polls are finally closed.

PROCLAMATION.] Section 348, original act.] Section 15. Before the judges receive any ballots they must cause it to be proclaimed aloud, at the place of election, that the polls are open.

CLOSING THE POLLS.] Section 349, original act.] Section 16. Fifteen minutes before the time when the polls are to be closed the fact must be proclaimed aloud at the place of election, and after the polls are closed no ballots must be received.

CANVASS-HOW MADE.] [Section 350, original act.] Section 17. As soon as the polls are finally closed the judges and clerks must immediately proceed to canvass the votes given at such election. The canvass must be public, in the presence of the by-standers, and must be continued without adjournment until completed, and the result thereof is declared, and must also be conducted at the polling place where the election is held, where, also, the result as to each candidate voted for must be, immediately on the completion of such canvass, publicly proclaimed by each one of the judges successively, in a loud voice, and such proclamation shall be prima facie evidence of the result.

JUDGES CONDUCTING THE CANVASS.] [Section 351, original act.] Section 18. In conducting the canvass, the judges shall first count the whole number of ballots in the box, and if the number of such ballots shall be found to exceed the number of names entered on the polling lists they shall reject the ballots, if any be found, upon which no number is marked, or so many thereof, without opening the same or examining or looking at the names thereon, as may be necessary to make the number of ballots correspond to the number of names entered on the polling lists, but if the number of ballots, after rejecting all the unnumbered ballots, still exceeds the number of names entered on the polling lists, they shall be replaced in the box, and one of the judges shall publicly draw out and destroy so many ballots, unopened, and without examining them, as shall be equal to

such excess.

LISTS-HOW MADE.] [Section 352, original act.] Section 19. The number of ballots agreeing, or being thus made to agree, with the number of names on the list, the list must be signed by the judges and clerks of election, and the number of names thereon must be set down in words and figures at the foot of each list, and over the signatures of the judges, substantially in the form prescribed in section eleven.

AFTER LISTS SIGNED. JUDGES TO COUNT THE VOTES.] [Section 353, original act.] Section 20. After the lists are thus signed, the judges must proceed to count and ascertain the number of votes cast for each person voted for. The ballots must be taken out and opened by one of the judges, and by him distinctly read aloud and inspected by the other two judges.

TALLIES-HOW MADE.] [Section 354, original act.] Section 21. The clerks must write down each office or position to be filled, and the name of each person voted for to fill such office, and keep the number of votes for each person for each office by tallies as they are read aloud.

LISTS TO BE SIGNED BY JUDGES.] [Section 355, original act.] Section 22. As soon as all the votes are counted, there must be attached to the tally lists, lists containing the names of the persons. voted for and for what office, and the number of votes given for each candidate, the number being written at full length, and such lists. must be signed by the judges and clerks substantially in the form given in section eleven.

TO DESTROY THE BALLOTS STATEMENTS AND LISTS TO BE FILED WITH COUNTY CLERK.] [Section 353, original act.] Section 23. After counting the votes. proclaiming the result and signing the lists, as above provided, and cause the statements provided for in section eight, and one copy of the lists to be delivered to the secretary signing the notice of election, and one of the judges must retain the other lists together with the ballots for twenty days after the election, and such statements and lists returned to the said secretary shall be by him, after the expiration of twenty days, delivered to the county clerk of the county in which such election was held, and by that officer kept with the other books and papers of his office, open like other public records to public inspection, for the space of three months, at the end of which time, if no legal proceedings have been instituted in which such lists or statements may be useful as evidence, said county clerk may then destroy the same.

CERTIFICATES TO BE ISSUED.] [Section 357, original act.} Section 24. The primary election judges or a majority of them must issue certificates of election to all persons who are chosen to fill any position by the vote of their primary election district.

PENALTY FOR VIOLATING THIS ACT.] [Section 358, original act.] Section 25. If any person shall be guilty of any violation of this act, for which no punishment is herein specially provided, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not less than one month nor more than six months, or punished by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

PENALTY FOR ILLEGAL VOTING.] [Section 359, original act.] Section 26. It shall be unlawful for any person to vote at any primary election, or at any election called to select delegates to any convention, called either for the purpose of nominating a candidate or candidates for any elective office, or for the purpose of selecting other delegates to such convention, unless such person so voting or offering to vote, would be a qualified elector in the district embraced within the call for said primary election, if the same was a general or special election, held under and in conformity with the general election laws of this State.

VIOLATING ACT-PENALTY.] [Section 360, original act.] Section 27. Any person violating the provisions of the preceding section shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not less than three nor more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court.

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PRIMARY ELECTIONS.

IN COUNTIES OF 125,000 OR OVER-MAY BE ADOPTED IN OTHER

COUNTIES.

AN ACT providing for primary elections of delegates to nominating conventions of political parties or organizations, and to promote the purity thereof by regulating the conduct thereof, and to support the privileges of free suffrage thereat by prohibiting certain acts and practices in relation thereto, and providing for the punishment thereof.

WHERE HELD-CONVENTIONS DEFINED.] SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly. That in every county, city, village, or incorporated town, respectively, in this State to which this act shall apply as hereinafter provided, the primary elections for delegates to constitute the various conventions of the different political parties or organizations of such county, city, village, or incorporated town, or any part thereof, held for the nomination of candidates for public office in this State and any part thereof, and for the Congress of the United States, whose names are to be printed on the official election ballots printed and distributed at public expense in such county, city, village, or incorporated town or any part thereof, shall hereafter be held under and pursuant to this act. A convention to nominate candidates for public office to be voted for by the electors of the entire State shall be known as a "State convention;" a convention to nominate candidates for public office to be voted for by the electors of an entire county shall be known as a "county convention;" a convention to nominate candidates for public office to be voted for by the electors of an entire city. village or incorporated town shall be known as a "city convention;" a convention to nominate candidates for public office to be voted for by the electors of an entire township shall be known as a "town convention:" a convention to nominate candidates for public office to be voted for by the electors of an entire ward shall be known as a "ward convention:" all other nominating conventions in this State shall be known as "district conventions."

PARTIES ENTITLED—TWO PARTIES NOT TO HOLD PRIMARIES ON SAME DAY Section 2. Any political party or organization which at the last preceding general election in this State polled at least ten (10) per cent, of the entire votes cast in such county, city, village or incorporated town shall be entitled under this act to hold one primary election on any day between November and April next following and preceding any regular spring election. and another primary election on any day between April and November next following and preceding any regular November election. Certificates of nomination and nomination papers for the nomination of candidates for office to be within the time and in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of an act entitled "An act to provide for the printing and distribution of ballots at public expense, and for the nomination of candidates for public office, to regulate the manner of holding elections and to enforce the secrecy of the ballot,"