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Review of enrollment book.

Proviso.

Enrollment of voters.

party enrollment, or the corrections and additions made in the enrollment book of each election precinct, to each of which copies he shall attach his certificate that the same is a true and correct copy of the party enrollment, or of the corrections and additions to the same.

SEC. 10. On the dates named herein for the enrollment of voters, the various enrollment boards shall review the enrollment book and correct the same in the same manner as corrections are made in the registration book for said precinct, provided for under the provisions of the general election law: Provided, That in precincts in which no election is held on the first Monday in April, the enrollment board thereof shall not be required to be in session on the preceding Saturday. The custodian of said enrollment book shall deliver the same to the board of enrollment for the purposes of review and correction as herein provided. The said enrollment board shall enroll all qualified electors who make application for and are entitled to enrollment as members of any political party. Independents. Whenever any qualified elector shall apply for enrollment, but shall neglect or refuse to give the name of his party, or if he has none, he shall be enrolled as an "independent." Whenever a qualified elector is entitled to enrollment, he shall be enrolled by the said board as a member of the particular* Application. political party which he names. Application for enrollment shall be made either upon the blanks herein before provided for or by making application personally to said board on any enrollment day.

Duty of chairman.

Enrollment

on primary day.

Change of residence.

Proviso.

SEC. 11. At the close of enrollment on enrollment day, it shall be the duty of the chairman of the board having in charge the party enrollment in any election precinct, to cause two black lines to be drawn across the page under the last name enrolled under each alphabetical letter in the party enrollment book, and shall cause to be written between said lines the words "Last name enrolled under this letter, the..... day of. . . . . . . . . .19 . . . .,” filling in the date of said enrollment. SEC. 12. Any qualified elector in any election precinct in this State, who failed to have his name enrolled on any enrollment day by reason of sickness, unavoidable absence from the election precinct, or other reasonable cause, and who is a qualified elector in said precinct on a primary election day; or any person who may have become twenty-one years of age or a qualified elector after enrollment day, may have his name enrolled by the board of primary election inspectors on any primary election day upon making oath as provided in the general election law relative to the registration of electors on election days. Any person who was duly enrolled in the manner herein provided, but who has changed his residence to any election precinct other than that in which he was enrolled, may be enrolled in the new election precinct and may vote therein: Provided, That he has resided in the election precinct in which he seeks to be enrolled for a period of twenty days and that he obtain from a member of the enrollment

board in which he formerly resided a certificate stating that he was duly enrolled in such district and that he is entitled to enrollment in the new district, which certificate shall contain all of the data set forth in the enrollment book; or that he satisfy the said enrollment board or board of primary election inspectors, in any other manner, of the existence of such facts.

affiliation.

SEC. 13. Whenever an enrolled voter has changed his party Change of affiliation and desires to be enrolled as a member of another party political party, he may personally make application on any enrollment day, or on any primary election day, for re-enrollment, to the enrollment board, or the board of primary election inspectors, and said board shall thereupon re-enroll the name of said enrolled voter and at the same time draw a pen mark through the name of said enrolled voter as previously enrolled and opposite said name as previously enrolled shall write the word "re-enrolled" and the date of said re-enrollment: Pro- Proviso as to validity of vided, That when any enrolled voter shall become re-enrolled petitions. under authority of this section, the said re-enrollment of such enrolled voter shall not affect the validity of any petition theretofore signed by such enrolled voter as a member of a particular political party.

SEC. 14. The question of the direct nomination of party when question may be candidates of any political party for city, county, legislative or submitted or congressional offices may be submitted or re-submitted to the resubmitted. enrolled voters of such political party within such city, county or district upon petition therefor, signed by a number of enrolled voters of such political party within such city, county or district, which number shall constitute not less than Per cent of twenty per cent. of the total number of enrolled voters of such voters. political party in such city, county or district.

whom

SEC. 15. The petition referred to in the preceding section Petitions, relative to city offices shall be addressed to the city clerk; and when and to relative to a county or legislative district wholly within one addressed. county, shall be addressed to the county clerk; and petitions relative to legislative or congressional district offices, comprising more than one county, to the Secretary of State, and shall be delivered to the city clerk, county clerk or Secretary of State, at least thirty days before the first Monday of April on which the proposition is to be voted upon by the enrolled voters of the particular political party.

form of.

SEC. 16. Such petition shall embrace but one object: The Petition, proposition to select by direct vote, party candidates for representative in congress, for State senator, for representative in the State legislature, for county offices or city offices, shall each be petitioned for on separate petitions. The said petition shall be in substantially the following form:

To the (City Clerk, County Clerk or Secretary of State):
We, the undersigned, enrolled voters of the...

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Notice of primary to vote on question.

Duty of commissioners.

Form of ballot.

Canvass of votes.

Date of general primary.

fully petition that the question of direct nomination of party candidates for... ..shall be submitted (or re-submitted) to the enrolled voters of the said political party in said (city, county or district) on the first Monday of April, next.

(Signed).

SEC. 17. The said city clerk, county clerk or Secretary of State, as the case may be, shall examine said petition and if it is found that a sufficient number of enrolled voters have signed said petition, he shall give notice, as near as possible, in the manner now provided by law for giving notice of general elections in this State, that at an election to be held pursuant to the provisions of this act on the first Monday in April thereafter, the proposition will be submitted or re-submitted to the enrolled voters of the particular political party in said city, county or district, referred to in such petition or petitions, whether the nomination of party candidates of that political party for the offices named in said petition or petitions shall thereafter be made in such city, county or district, by direct vote, and the proper board of election commissioners under the general election law shall cause to be printed on the ballot to be used at such primary election, in substance, the following words:

Instruction: Make a cross in the square to the left of the words "Yes" or "No" on each proposition submitted. Direct nomination of candidates of the...

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All such propositions may be submitted upon one ballot to the enrolled voters of a particular political party. Whenever more than one proposition is submitted upon one ballot, each proposition shall be separated by a black line one-sixth of an inch wide to enable each proposition petitioned for to be voted upon by itself. The color of the ballots shall be the same as is herein prescribed for the official primary election ballots. The size and form of the ballots, other than as herein directed, shall be prescribed by the said board of election commissioners. The votes cast at such election shall be canvassed, and returns thereof made in like manner as is provided for the canvassing of votes and the making of returns of any general election held in such city, county, or district, by the terms of existing law.

SEC. 18. A general primary election, for all political parties, shall be held in every election precinct in this State on the first Tuesday of September preceding every general November election, at which time the enrolled voters of each political party shall vote for party candidates for the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and United States Sena

tor: Provided, That no nomination for the office of United Proviso. States Senator shall be made unless such official is to be elected at the next session of the legislature.

nomination of.

senator.

tative.

SEC. 19. In any congressional district in this State in Congressmen, which the enrolled voters of any political party have decided, or in which the enrolled voters of any political party shall hereafter decide, in accordance with the provisions of this act, in favor of the direct nomination of a candidate for representative in congress, there shall be nominated at the said September primary election, by direct vote of the enrolled voters of such political party within such district, a party candidate for representative in congress. In any senatorial dis- State trict in this State in which the enrolled voters of any political party have decided, or in which the enrolled voters of any political party shall hereafter decide, in accordance with the provisions of this act, in favor of direct nomination of party candidates for State senator, there shall be nominated at the said primary election, by direct vote of the enrolled voters of any such political party, a party candidate for State senator. In any representative district in this State in which the Represenenrolled voters of any political party have decided or in which the enrolled voters of any political party shall hereafter decide, in accordance with the provisions of this act, in favor of the direct nomination of a party candidate or candidates for representative in the State legislature, there shall be nominated at the said primary, by direct vote of the enrolled voters of such political party within such district a party candidate or candidates for representative in the State legislature. In City and any city or county in this State in which the enrolled voters county of any political party have decided, or in which the enrolled voters of any political party shall hereafter decide, in accordance with the provisions of this act, in favor of direct nomination of party candidates for city or county offices, when the officers thereof are to be voted for at the November election following, there shall be nominated at the said primary election by direct vote of the enrolled voters of any such political party within such city or county, party candidates for such city or county offices. Whenever the enrolled voters of any Delegates to political party within any county shall decide to nominate county conparty candidates for county offices to be voted for at the November election, by direct vote, or in case the enrolled voters of any political party have so decided under act number one hundred eighty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, there shall also be elected at the September primary, by direct vote of the enrolled voters of such political party in such county, as many delegates as such political party in such county shall be entitled to by the call issued by the county committee of such political party for the county convention thereafter to be held by such political party in said county in that year for the purpose of electing delegates to the State convention called for the purpose of nominating candidates for State offices. In case of any vacancy in any dele- Vacancy.

officers.

vention.

State central

certify num

ber of delegates.

To apportion delegates.

Delegates to county con

vention.

gation from any election precinct, township, or ward, to the county convention, such vacancy shall be filled by the delegates present from the ward or township in which the vacancy occurs. The State central committee of each political party committee to shall, at least thirty days before the September primary herein provided for, certify to the board of election commissioners of each county and to the chairman of the county committee of such party, the number of delegates to which such county shall be entitled in the State convention of such party, and the said State central committee shall apportion such delegates to the several counties in proportion and according to the number of votes cast for the candidates of such party for Secretary of State in each of said counties respectively at the last preceding November election. The name of any candidate for delegate to the county convention shall not be printed upon the official primary election ballot. The provisions of this act shall not be construed to apply to or be operative in the counties of Alpena, Kent, Muskegon and Wayne, except where such counties or parts of counties form and constitute a part only of a congressional or legislative district, in which case the provisions of this act shall be operative in said county, or parts of counties, relative to the nomination of party candidates for representative in congress, State senator, or representative in the State legislature, and except in regard to the nomination of party candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and United States Senator. Whenever this act is operative in the said counties of Alpena, Kent, Muskegon and Wayne, all penal provisions of this act shall be effective and shall be enforced in the same manner as in any other county in the State.

Certain counties excepted.

Penal provisions.

Board of election com

furnish

SEC. 20. It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners to missioners of each county in this State to prepare and furnish the necessary official primary election ballots which may be required for use by any political party at the September Ballots, what primary. Such ballots shall contain the name of the political

ballots.

to contain, how designated, etc. Colors.

party for which they are to be used, the voting precinct, city
or township, and county and the instructions as to the method
of voting. Said ballots shall be printed on different colored
paper for each political party, but no party ballot shall be
printed on yellow paper. Ballots for the Republican party
shall be printed in black ink upon a good quality of white
paper. Ballots for the Democratic party shall be printed in
black ink upon a good quality of blue paper. Ballots for the
Prohibition party shall be printed in black ink upon a good
quality of red paper, and if there are other political parties,
the board of election commissioners shall print ballots therefor
in black ink upon a good quality of a different colored paper
from that as above designated. Ballots other than those
furnished by the board of election commissioners, according
to the provisions of this act, shall not be used, cast or counted

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