Papers and Addresses on Primary Reform Read at the Annual Meeting of the Michigan Political Science Association Held at Ann Arbor, February 9 and 10, 1905 - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...ballot is by petition. Such petition must be filed at least thirty days before the primary, for all officers representing more than one county with the secretary of state, for all other officers, except city officers, with the county clerk, and for city officers with the city clerk. In addition to the signers' name, it must contain their address, and date of signing. It formally proposes A. B., giving his address, as a candidate for the specified office at the primary in question. Curiously, it says nothing about the particular party ticket upon which he is to be nominated, but recites the partisan affiliations of the signers, and contains a declaration that they intend to support the candidate named for the office. No signer shall sign more than one paper for the same office, and all signers of each separate paper shall reside in the same precinct, except in case of state officers, when they must all reside in the same county. Each such nomination paper must have appended to it an affidavit of a qualified elector that he is personally acquainted with all the signers; that he knows them to be electors of the precinct or county as the case may be; that he knows they signed the same with full knowledge of the contents; that their residences and the dates of signing are correctly stated, and that he himself intends to support the same candidate. It is difficult to see what more could reasonably be required to insure the bona fides of the nomination papers. That men may not be nominated or candidated against their will, each candidate must file with his papers a declaration that he will qualify and serve if nominated and elected. The number of signers required varies for different offices, as follows: (a) If for a state office, at least one...
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