OF CALIFORNIA WITH FORMS FOR THE MAKING OF NOMINATIONS THEREUNDER 1. Direct Primary Law-For September Election 1912 TOGETHER WITH ANNOTATIONS AND ANALYSIS BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BILLS, And Forms Approved by the Secretary of State and the Attorney General DISTRIBUTED BY FRANK C. JORDAN, Secretary of State In Accordance with a Resolution of the State Senate of California, Adopted December 23, 1911 JK 2075 Cla 1912 PROVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA RELATIVE TO CALIFORNIA PRIMARY LAWS SEC. 21. The legislature shall have the power to enact laws relative to the election of delegates to conventions of political parties; and the legislature shall enact laws providing for the direct nomination of candidates for public office, by electors, political parties, or organizations of electors without conventions, at elections to be known and designated as primary elections; and also to determine the tests and conditions upon which electors, political parties, or organizations of electors may participate in any such primary election. It shall also be lawful for the legislature to prescribe that any such primary election shall be mandatory and obligatory. The legislature shall also have the power to establish the rates of compensation for primary election officers serving at such primary elections in any city, or city and county, or county, or other subdivision of a designated population, without making such compensation uniform, and for such purpose such law may declare the population of any city, city and county, county or political subdivision. Provided, however, that until the legislature shall enact a direct primary election law under the provisions of this section, the present primary election law shall remain in force and effect. [Amendment adopted November 3, 1908.] HON. FRANK C. JORDAN, BERKELEY, January 20, 1912. Secretary of State, Sacramento, California. DEAR SIR: You have called my attention to the following resolution adopted by the Senate December 23, 1911: Resolved, That the State Printer be, and he is hereby, instructed to print 10,000 annotated and indexed copies of the direct primary law, as amended at the present extra session, and the presidential primary law, said Acts being bound together; and further be it Resolved, That the Secretary of State is hereby authorized to receive the same for public distribution, and that 40 copies of said combined Acts be sent to each member of the legislature; and further be it Resolved, That the author of the said Acts be requested to assist in the annotating and indexing thereof, such work to be performed without compensation. In conformity with the last clause of this resolution, I am sending you to-day the following items which you may perhaps think worth while to print with each of these statutes: (1) A table of contents of each law, and suggestions as to the forms required, subject to the approval of your office and the office of the attorney general. (2) An annotation of each law, in the form of marginal notes opposite the various sections and subdivisions. (3) An analysis of each law, non-technical, and tracing in order the steps of its practical operation. (4) An index of each law, in the form of marginal notes opposite the points made in the analysis, referring each point therein to its proper section and subdivision. This marginal index, together with the tables of contents, will, I believe, meet all the requirements of those desiring facilities for ready reference on any feature of this legislation. I trust that these various methods of treatment will, from different angles, prove adequate, or at least helpful, to those who wish to make an investigation or study of either of these laws. Yours very truly, C. C. YOUNG. DIRECT PRIMARY LAW. (1) Secretary of state's notice of election to county clerks and registrars. (2) Publication of notice in newspapers of county. 5. Preparation, signing, and filing of nomination papers. (1) Form of paper signed by voter in nominating candidate. (2) Form of oath signed by verification deputies and earliest date of (3) Manner and earliest date of voter's signature of nomination papers. (a) Examination of papers by county clerk. (b) Who may not serve as verification deputies. (5) Statements of legislative candidates regarding United States.senator. (6) Number of signatures necessary for nomination. (7) Basis of percentage in requirement for nomination. (8) New districts following reapportionment. (9) Independent candidates and ineligibility of defeated candidate. (10) Number of signatures required for judicial or school office. (11) Record of candidate's filing of nomination papers. Place of filing nomination papers and number to be filed. (1) Papers to be filed with secretary of state. (2) Papers to be filed with county clerk. (3) Papers to be filed with city clerk. (4) Limitation on number of papers to be filed. (5) Limitation on number of signatures to be secured. Filing fees-how much and where paid. (1) For state office or for United States senator. (2) For congressional or district office. (6) Offices requiring no filing fee. (7) Prompt payment of filing fee necessary. (8) Filing fee of candidates "written in" on ballot. Disposition and apportionment of filing fees. Expenses of election-how paid. (1) List of candidates sent to county clerk by secretary of state. |