purpose of adding to the register the names of any legal voters entitled to vote at such election, and erasing therefrom the name of any person not so entitled to vote; and such county board shall proceed in all respects as is provided for the revision by them of the register for the general election.

31. Whenever the boundaries of any election district in any township, city or other municipality within this state shall have been changed or any new district created between the time of holding the general election and the time of holding the next charter, local or special election, or where the boundaries of any election district shall not be the same as at the general election, it shall be the duty of the county board of elections, on being notified thereof, to appoint a board of registry and election for such election district, in the manner hereinbefore provided for the appointment of district boards of registry and election; and such district board shall thereupon proceed to make and revise a register of all the names of the legal voters in such election district; such register shall be made and revised so far as is practicable at the times and in the manner hereinbefore provided for the making and revising of the register for the general election; in all newly-created municipalities, the registry for the first election shall be made as herein directed, unless otherwise provided by any general law relating to such newly-created municipalities.

Proceedings Applicable to all Registrations.

Proceedings public.

of district boards to be

32. The proceedings of every board of registry shall be open to the public, and all persons entitled to the right of suffrage in the election district shall be entitled to be freely heard in relation to the revision and correction of the registers; whenever a voter shall be registered by Registration affidavit a separate affidavit shall be required for each

by affidavit.

Disposition of affidavits.

Who may vote.

Penalty for illegal registration, etc., by board.

False registration.

Penalty.

person so registered, which shall contain the address of the affiant and be signed by him; such affidavits shall be preserved in the custody of the member of the board of registry and election acting as judge until the completion of the registry; all such affidavits shall then be delivered by such judge to the county board of elections, who shall give a receipt for the same, stating the number received; and the said county board of elections, shall preserve such affidavits for six months after election, or until required to produce the same by any court or tribunal authorized to require their production as evidence in such court or tribunal.

33. No person, except as hereinafter provided, shall be allowed to vote unless his name shall be found on the register; and if any member or members of the board of registry and election shall willfully refuse to enter in the canvassing-books or upon the registers the name of any person legally entitled to vote, or shall register the name of any person contrary to the provisions of this act, or on the day of election shall receive the vote of any person whose name shall not appear on the revised and corrected register, unless such name shall have been ordered added thereto in the manner herein provided, such member or members shall be punished, on conviction, by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

34. Any person who shall cause or procure his name to be registered in more than one election district, or shall cause or procure his name or that of any other person to be registered, knowing that he or the person whose name he has procured to be registered, is not entitled to vote in the election district wherein said registry is made, at the next election to be held therein, or who shall falsely personate any registered voter, shall be punished for each offence by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment for a term not ex

ceeding five years, or both, at the discretion of the court. (a)

by affidavit.

35. Every board of registry and election shall place Registration upon said registers the name of any person who shall appear before them and satisfy them by an affidavit in writing that such person will, on the day of the next ensuing election, be entitled, under the constitution and laws of this state, to exercise the right of suffrage in that election district; and any person swearing falsely in Penalty. any such affidavit shall be guilty of perjury, and incur the penalty thereof; every such affidavit shall within Disposition two days be forwarded to the county board of elections, to be by them kept as provided in the thirty-second section of this act.

36. If any person shall, after being registered in one election district, move into another election district in the same county, he may apply to the board of registry and election, on election day, to have his name erased from the register and a certificate given him to that effect, which certificate shall be signed by said board, or a majority thereof, and on presentation of such certificate to the board of election of the district where he then resides, his name and residence (including street and number, if any) shall be placed on the register of such district, where he shall then be allowed to vote; provided, that said latter board may require him to make a statement, under oath, to satisfy themselves of his right to vote; the presentation of such certificate shall be noted on the register and the certificate preserved, and at the close of the election attached to the register and filed therewith with the county clerk.

37. Whenever the time fixed by law for holding any municipal, local or charter election falls upon the day

(a) A conviction cannot be sustained by this section solely upon the fact that defendant procured the name of an unqualified voter to be registered, but it must further appear that he knew when he caused such registration to be made that the person so registered was not entitled to vote at the next election. The significant word of the section is "knowing." State v. McBarron, 37 Vr. 680.

of affidavits.

Procedure

where voter

has removed district.

to another

Procedure

where election

falls on

registration day.

Nomination

of candidates by conventions, etc.

fixed by law for the meeting of the boards of registry to prepare a register for the ensuing general election, such meeting of the boards of registry shall be held upon the day following such municipal, local or charter election.

Nomination by Convention.

38. Any convention of delegates or nominating body of a political party as hereinafter defined, and also individual voters by petition, to the number and in the manner hereinafter specified, may nominate candidates for public office, whose names shall be printed, written or placed upon the ballots as hereinafter provided and directed; a "convention of delegates" or "nominating body of a political party," within the meaning of this of a political act, is an organized assemblage of delegates or voters,

"Convention of delegates" and "nominating body

party" defined.

representing a political party which, at the general election next preceding the holding of such convention or nominating body, polled for members of the general assembly at least two per centum of the total vote cast in the state, county or other division or district in and for which the nomination is made.

39. All nominations made by any such convention of delegates or nominating body shall be certified in a written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, certificate of nomination, which shall contain the name of each person nominated, his residence and post-office address, the office for which he is named, and shall designate in not more than three words the title or name of the party or principles which such convention or nominating body represented; said certificate shall be signed by the presiding officer and secretary of such convention or nominating body, who shall add to their signatures their respective places of residence and post-office addresses, and severally make oath before an officer qualified to administer the same, that the affiants were re

spectively such officers of such convention or nominating body, and that said certificate and the statements therein contained are true as they verily believe; and a certificate that such oath has been taken shall be made and signed by the officer administering the same and endorsed upon or attached to such certificate of nomination. (a)

Names of factions; how selected

is divided.

40. In case of a division in any party and claim by two or more factions to the same party name or title, when party the secretary of state or the county or municipal clerk, as the case may be, shall give the preference of name or title to the convention of delegates or nominating body held at the time and place designated in the call of the regularly-constituted party authorities; and if the other faction shall present no other party name or title, the secretary of state or county or municipal clerk, as the case may require, shall select a name or title and place the same at the head of the list of candidates of said faction on the ballot; if two or more conventions be called by authorities or bodies claiming to be the regularly-constituted authority or body of any party, the secretary of state or county or municipal clerk, as the case may require, shall select suitable names or titles to distinguish the several factions, and the ballots shall be printed accordingly.

Nominations by Petition.

41. Besides the nomination of candidates by a convention of delegates or nominating body of a political party, as hereinbefore provided, candidates for public office may also be nominated by "petition" in manner following: Such petition shall be addressed to the secretary of state or clerk of said county, city or other mu

(a) As to amending a defective certificate of nomination, see section 235 post.

Nomination

of candidates

by petition.

Contents of petition.