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 constructed and placed that only such persons as are inside said rail can approach 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 rail. Such 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 rail. No person other than the election officers and the challengers allowed by law and those admitted for the purpose of voting, as hereinafter provided, shall be permitted within the guard rail, except by authority of the primary 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.

No person whatever shall do any electioneering or soliciting of votes on primary day within any polling place or within one hundred feet of any polling place.

§ 24. Primary ballot boxes shall be furnished by the same authorities and in the same manner and shall be of the same style and description as ballot boxes furnished for the purpose of general elections, under the general election laws of this State.

§ 25. All necessary primary poll books, tally sheets, return blanks, stationery and other necessary primary supplies shall be furnished by the same authorities upon whom is imposed by law the duty of furnishing such supplies at general elections.

§ 26. The expense of conducting such primary, including the per diem of judges and clerks, furnishing, warming, lighting and maintaining the polling place, and all other expenses necessarily incurred in the preparation for or conducting such primary shall be paid in the same manner, and by the same authorities or officers respectively as in the case of elections.

§ 27. The primary poll books shall be substantially in the following form.

This is to certify that the above and foregoing is a correct list of primary voters at a primary held on the

...

in the

day of..

..precinct, in

...

A. D. county and State of Illinois. That at said primary the undersigned judges and clerks served as required by law and are entitled to pay therefor.

Dated..

19....

Clerks of Primary.

Judges of Primary.

Said primary poll books shall otherwise be in form and shall contain the same certificates 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 the poll books used for the purposes of regular elections.

§ 28. The tally sheets for each political party participating in the primary election shall be substantially in the following form:

"Tally sheets for..

for the

for a primary held on the

(Name of political party) .precinct, in the county of day of

A. D.....

The names of the candidates for nomination and for State central committeemen, senatorial committeemen and precinct committeemen, 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.

§ 29. Any candidate for United States Senator may have his name printed upon the primary ballot of his political party by filing in the office of the Secretary of State, not less than thirty (30) days prior to the date of the April primary, in any year, a petition signed by not less

than three thousand (3000) primary electors, nor more than five thousand (5000) members of and affiliated with the party of which he is a candidate, and no candidate for United States Senator, who fails to comply with the provisions of this Act, shall have his name printed upon any primary ballot: Provided, that the vote upon candidates for United States Senator shall be had for the sole purpose of ascertaining the sentiment of the voters of the respective parties.

§ 30. The name of no candidate for nomination, or State central committeemen, or senatorial committeemen, shall be printed upon the primary ballot unless a petition for nomination shall have been filed in his behalf, as provided in this Act in substantially the following form:

We, the undersigned, members of and affiliated with the.. party and qualified primary electors of said ....

.of

....in the county of

party, in the

and State of Illinois, do hereby petition that the following named person or persons shall be a candidate or candidates of the... party for the nomination for the office or offices hereinafter specified, to be voted for at the primary election held on the

NAME

..A. D.....

...day of

ADDRESS

OFFICE

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 signatures on this sheet were signed in my presence, and are genuine, and that to the best of my knowledge and belief the persons so signing were at the time of signing said petitions qualified voters and that their respective residences are correctly stated, as above set forth.

of

Subscribed and sworn to before me this.

.A. D..

.day

Such petitions 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 candidates, 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 primary electors in their own proper persons only, and opposite the signature of each signer, his resi

dence 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. Such statement shall be sworn to before some officer of the county in which the person making such statement resides, authorized to administer the oaths therein. Such sheets before 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 manner, 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 continuous 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 the name of a signer upon any petition required by this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a forgery, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished accordingly.

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. Such petitions for nomination shall be signed:

(a) If for a State office, by not less than one thousand (1000) nor more than two thousand (2000) primary electors of his party;

(b) If for a congressional or senatorial office, by at least one-half of one per cent of the qualified primary electors of his party in his congressional or senatorial district, as the case may be;

(c) If for a judicial office, by at least one-half of one per cent of the qualified primary electors of his party in the district or division for which the nomination is made;

(d) If for a county office, by at least one-half of one per cent of the qualified primary electors of his party in his county: Provided, that if for the nomination for county commissioner of Cook county, then by at least one-half of one per cent of the qualified primary electors of his party in his county in the district or division in which such person is a candidate for nomination.

(e) If for a city or village office, to be filled by the electors of the entire city or village, by at least one-half of one per cent of the qualified primary electors of his party in his city or village; if for alderman, by at least one-half of one per cent of the voters of his party of his ward;

(f) If for State central committeeman, by at least one hundred (100) of the primary electors of his party of his congressional district;

(g) If for senatorial committeeman by at least ten (10) of the primary electors of his party of the county where the senatorial district is co-extensive with one county or is composed of more than one county; but in case the senatorial district is wholly within the territorial limits of one county, or partly within the territorial limits of one county and partly within the territorial limits of another county,. then such petition shall be signed by at least ten (10) of the primary electors of his party of his senatorial district.

(h) If for a candidate for trustee of a sanitary district, by at least one-half of one per cent of the primary electors of his party from such sanitary district;

(i) If for a candidate for clerk of the appellate court, by at least one-half of one per cent of the primary electors of his party of the district;

(j) If for any other office, by at least ten (10) primary electors of his party of the district or division for which nomination is made. § 31. All petitions for nomination shall be filed as follows:

I. Where the nomination is to be made for an office to be filled by the electors of the entire State, or any division or district greater than a county, including congressional, senatorial and judicial offices, then such petition for nomination shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State not more than sixty (60) nor less than thirty (30) days prior to the date of the primary.

2. Where the nomination is to be made for an office to be filled by the electors of an entire county, and for county commissioners of Cook county, except senatorial offices, the petitions for nomination shall be filed in the office of the county clerk not more than sixty (60) nor less than thirty (30) days prior to the date of the primary;

3. Where the nomination is to be made for an office to be filled by the electors of an entire city or village, including aldermen, such petitions for nomination shall be filed in the office of the city or village clerk not more than thirty (30) nor less than fifteen (15) days prior to the date of the primary;

4. Where the nomination is to be made for an office to be filled by the electors of a town, then such petition for nomination shall be filed. in the office of the town clerk not more than thirty (30) and not less than fifteen (15) days prior to the date of the primary;

5. The petitions of candidates and for State central committeemen shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State not more than sixty (60) and not less than thirty (30) days prior to the primary;