In case it is desired to appoint additional verification deputies to secure signatures to the nomination paper of such candidate, one or more similar documents may be filed to supplement the first document. When the office for which the candidate is proposed is a judicial, school, county, township or municipal office, the words " party," and the

words "of said party," shall be omitted from said document. Or, as an alternative to the foregoing portion of this section and subdivision, verification deputies may be appointed in behalf of a candidate as follows:

2. (b) Five electors may propose candidate. Consent of candidate. Form of nomination paper. Additional deputies. Any five qualified electors of any county or city and county who are registered as intending to affiliate with the same political party may join in proposing a candidate for nomination to any office to be voted on in such county or city and county at the next ensuing primary election, and in appointing verification deputies to serve within such county or city and county in securing signatures to the nomination paper of such candidate for such office. If the office is an office the .candidate for which is to be voted on in more than one county, he may be proposed for nomination as herein provided by five of the registered qualified electors in each of the counties in which such electors may desire to circulate a nomination paper in his behalf. The signatures of the said five qualified electors shall be verified free of charge before any officer authorized to administer an oath, and the document containing such signatures shall be filed with the county clerk of the county or city and county in which said five qualified electors reside, at or before the time the nomination paper of the candidate is left with the county clerk or registrar of voters for filing or for examination as provided in subdivision four of this section. In said document the five signers shall make affidavit that the candidate therein named for the office therein specified has given his consent to be thus proposed for nomination to such office; and shall also state that the verification deputies therein appointed are duly registered qualified electors of said county or city and county; and the verification deputies therein appointed shall be recognized as the duly authorized verification deputies to secure signatures to the nomination paper of such candidate in such county or city and county.

Form of nomination paper. Said document shall be substantially in the following form:

We, the undersigned, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that we are each qualified electors of the county of state of California, and that

we are each registered as intending to affiliate with the

we do hereby propose

city of (or in the town of)

who resides at No.

-, county of

party and street in the

as a candidate for to be voted for at day of August, 19—; and has consented to this

the nomination of such party for the office of the primary election to be held on the we do solemnly swear (or affirm) that said proposal of his name as candidate for the nomination for said office. We hereby appoint the following registered qualified electors of this county as verification deputies to obtain signatures in this county to the nomination paper of said to said office of

Subscribed and sworn to before me this (Seal)

Notary public (or other official). Additional deputies. In case it is desired to appoint additional verification deputies to secure signatures to the nomination paper of said candidate, one or more similar documents may be filed, to supplement the first document. When the office for which the candidate is proposed is a judicial, school, county, township, or municipal office, the provisions of this subdivision shall apply, except that the five qualified electors shall make no statement of their party affiliation and may be affiliated with different parties or with no party; and the candidate proposed for nomination shall not be so proposed as the candidate of any party.

3. Obtaining signatures to nomination papers. Verification deputies appointed as provided in subdivision two of this section to obtain signatures to the nomination paper of any candidate for any office to be voted for at any primary election, may, at any time not more than sixty-five days nor less than forty days prior to such election, obtain signatures to such nomination paper of such candidate for such office; each signer of a nomination paper shall sign but one such paper for the same office, except that in case two or more persons are to be elected to the same office at the same election, an elector may sign the nomination papers of as many persons as there are persons to be elected to such office, and such act on the part of such elector shall not be deemed in conflict with the signer's statement hereinafter provided. In the case of primary elections other than August primary elections or May presidential primary elections, signatures may be obtained not more than forty days nor less than twenty-five days prior to such election.

Presentation in sections. Affidavit of deputies. Sections returned to five electors. He shall also declare his intention to support such candidate for nomination, and shall add his place of residence, giving his street and number if any. His election precinct shall also appear on the paper just preceding his name, and he shall write the date of his signature at the end of the line just after his residence. Any nomina

tion paper may be presented in sections, but each section shall contain the name of the candidate and the name of the office for which he is proposed for nomination. Each section shall bear the name of the city or town, if any, and also the name of the county or city and county, in which it is circulated, and only qualified electors of such county or city and county, registered as intending to affiliate with the political party by which the nomination is to be made shall be competent to sign such section. Any section circulated within any incorporated city or town shall be signed only by registered qualified electors of such city or town. Each section shall be prepared with the lines for signatures numbered, and shall have attached thereto the affidavit of the verification deputy who has obtained signatures to the same, stating that all the signatures to the attached section were made in his presence, and that to the best of his knowledge and belief, each signature to the section is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be; and no other affidavit thereto shall be required. The affidavit of any verification deputy obtaining signatures hereunder shall be verified free of charge by any officer authorized to administer an oath. Such nomination paper so verified shall be prima facie evidence that the signatures thereto appended are genuine and that the persons signing the same are registered qualified electors, unless and until it is otherwise proven by comparison of such signatures with the affidavits of regis tration in the office of the county clerk or registrar of voters. Each section of the nomination paper, after being verified, shall be returned by the verification deputy who circulated it to one of the five electors by whom the said verification deputy was appointed; and in this manner all the sections circulated in any county shall be collected by said five electors of that county and shall be by them arranged for filing or for examination, as provided in subdivision four of this section, and shall then be by some one of them filed or left for examination and filing. In case said verification deputy was appointed directly by the candidate according to the provisions of subdivision two (a) of this section, the collecting, arranging, and filing, or leaving for examination and filing, of the sections of the nomination paper shall be done by the candidate, or on his behalf, instead of by the "five electors" as herein before provided. Each section of the nomination paper shall be in substance as follows:

Form of each section. County of any).

Nomination paper of

the office of

city (or town) of

(if

candidate for

party nomination for

I, undersigned, am a qualified elector of the city (or town) of —, county of

state of California, and am registered as intending to affiliate with the party; and I hereby nominate who resides at No. street, city of, county of -, state of California, as a candidate for the nomination of the party for the office of to be voted for at the primary election to be held on day of August, 19-. I have not signed the nomination paper

the

of any other candidate for the same office, and I further declare that I intend to support for such nomination the candidate named herein.

I furthermore declare that I have not signed the nomination paper of this candidate or any other candidate for office, as candidate of any other party at such primary election.

Verification Deputy's Affidavit.

I, —, solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have been appointed according to the provisions of subdivision two, section five of the direct primary law, as a verification deputy to secure signatures in the county of to the nomination paper of as candidate for the nomination of the -; that all the signatures on this section of said nomination paper, numbered from one to inclusive,

party for the office of

were made in my presence, and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, each of said signatures is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be.

In case of judicial office, etc. In the case of a nomination paper for any candidate for a judicial, school, county, township or municipal office, the provisions of this subdivision shall apply, except that no such nomination paper nor any section thereof shall contain the name of any political party and any nomination paper for any candidate for a judicial office, school office, county office, township office, or municipal office may be signed by any registered qualified elector of the county or city and county, whether registered as being affiliated with any, or with no, political party.

4. Arrangement prior to filing. Prior to the filing of a nomination paper for any candidate, the sections thereof must be numbered in order and fastened together by cities or towns or portions of the county not included in such cities or towns, substantially in the manner required for the binding of affidavits of registration by the provisions of section one thousand one hundred thirteen of the Political Code; provided, that the sections of the nomination paper may be preceded by an index of precincts, arranged by cities, towns or outside territory in the numerical or alphabetical order of such precincts for each such city, town or outside territory and showing after the name or number of such precinct the numbers of the sections on which the names of the electors registered in such precinct are to be found, and after the number of each section, the number (in parenthesis) of times such names are to be so

found on such section. Such index shall be in substantially the following form:

Candidates voted for in more than one county. Examination by clerk. Time for filing. Nomination papers. Persons who may not verify signatures. Statement of candidate. And provided, further, that for all nominations of candidates to be voted for in more than one county, or throughout the entire state, the nomination papers, properly assembled, may be consolidated and fastened or bound together by counties; but in no case shall nomination papers signed by electors of different counties be fastened or bound together.

Examination by clerk. The county clerk or registrar of voters of any county or city and county shall examine all nomination papers herein provided for which purport to have been signed by electors of his county or city and county, and shall disregard and mark "not sufficient" any name appearing on such paper or papers which does not appear in the same handwriting on an affidavit of registration in his office made on or before the date when such name was signed, or which, except in the case of nomination papers of candidates for judicial, school, county, township or municipal offices, the signers of which may be registered as of any or of no party, does not appear on said affidavit as intending to affiliate with the party named in such nomination papers. Such officer shall, within five days after any nomination papers are filed with him or left for examination, examine the same as herein provided, and affix thereto a certificate reciting that he has examined the same and stating the number of names signed thereto which have not been marked "not sufficient" as hereinabove provided.

Time for filing nomination papers. All nomination papers which by this act are required to be filed in the office of the secretary of state, shall be left with the county clerk or registrar of voters for examination, as above provided, at least forty days prior to the August primary election or the May presidential primary election, and shall, with such certificate of examination attached, within five days after being so left, be forwarded by such county clerk or registrar of voters to the secretary of state, who shall receive and file the same. All nomination papers which by this act are required to be filed in the office of the city clerk or secretary of the legislative body of any city or municipality shall be left with the county clerk or registrar of voters for examination, as above provided, at least twenty-five days prior to the primary election at which such nominations are to be made, and shall,