Archived Bill Info

"BRADY"

An act to amend sections ten, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen of an act entitled "An act regulating certain political parties providing for and regulating the nomination of candidates of such political parties for certain public offices the election of delegates and alternate delegates to National party conventions and of certain party officers including State committeemen a method whereby electors of such political parties may express their choice of candidates for the office of President of the United States and the payment by the several counties and their re-imbursement by the State of the expenses of the same authorizing the State committee of a political party to make and to alter, amend and revoke rules and providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act and for the punishment of certain offenses provided for herein and repealing inconsistent legislation," approved the twelfth day of July, Anno Domini, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen (Pamphlet Laws seven hundred and nineteen) so as to provide fully how many official and specimen ballots shall be provided for each party at the primaries and to whom the same shall be delivered, what other election materials shall be furnished and what printed instructions shall be given voters and election officers how the official ballots shall be given to qualified electors, how party membership shall be evidenced and how and when it may be challenged, how the vote shall be counted, recorded and returned by the election officers; what shall be done with the ballots voted, their stubs and the unused spoiled and void ballots, tally papers, oaths of election officers, affidavits of voters et cetera, lists of voters of each party, triplicate and other return sheets and who shall have the custody of same to require the return and public inspection of all the spoiled and unused ballots from each election district before the computation of any returns therefrom; to prescribe the method of computing and canvassing such returns publicly to provide who shall constitute the return board for any county wherein one or more of the commissioners are candidates at any primary; to regulate the manner of correcting apparent errors in certain returns and the opening of ballot boxes and the recounting of votes when any county commissioner or judge of the Court of Common Pleas deems it necessary in order to obtain a correct county or upon the petition of three electors averring fraud or error to assure the right of any authorized representative of any party or candidate to hear record and check-up the returns as read as well as to inspect the same and any other public documents relating to any primary election to allow any person aggrieved by any decision of the county commissioners to appeal therefrom to the court of common pleas of the proper county; to make certain violation of said act as amended hereby misdemeanors and to provide penalties for the punishments of such offenses and to repeal inconsistent legislation.

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Referred to Committee on Elections, March 11.

Reported as committed, March 12.

Passed first reading, March 17.

Time extended two weeks, April 22.

Time extended two weeks, May 12.

Recommitted to Committee on Elections, June 11.