Nominating Systems: Direct Primaries Versus Conventions in the United States

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Side 356 - Queretaro, and every naturalized citizen thereof, who shall have become such ninety days prior to any election, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of the state one year next preceding the election, and of the county in which he or she claims his or her vote ninety days, and in the election precinct thirty days, shall be entitled to vote at all elections...
Side 376 - A law may be general and have a local application or apply to a designated class if it operates equally upon all the subjects within the class for which it was adopted.
Side 364 - ... approach the question with great caution, examine it in every possible aspect, and ponder upon it as long as deliberation and patient attention can throw any new light upon the subject, and never declare a statute void unless the nullity and invalidity of the act are placed, in their judgment, beyond reasonable doubt.
Side 495 - The provisions of the statutes now in force in relation to the holding of elections, the solicitation of voters at the polls, the challenging of voters, the manner of conducting elections, of counting the ballots and making return thereof, and all other kindred subjects, shall apply to all primaries in so far as they are consistent with this act...
Side 475 - To vote for a person whose name is printed on the ballot mark a cross (X) in the square at the right of the name of the person for whom you desire to vote.
Side 199 - ... to determine the tests and conditions upon which electors, political parties, or organizations of electors may participate in any such primary election.
Side 248 - The great reformation effected in our general elections through the Australian ballot inspires us with confidence to apply the same method in making nominations, so that every voter may exercise his sovereign right of choice by direct vote without the intervention or interference of any political agency.
Side 476 - After the ballots are printed, before being cut, they shall be kept in separate piles, one pile for each change of position, and shall then be piled by taking one from each pile and placing it upon the pile to be...
Side 479 - ... and have not been -able to do so since appearing at the polling place, said polls shall...
Side 299 - Is still true that you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

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