See Rebstock v. Superior Court of City and County of San Francisco, 1905, 146 Cal. 308. (Interpreting c. 198, Laws of 1901.)

Laws, 1907, c. 340. The governing committee of any political party when filing its application for a place on the primary official ballot is required to file a resolution prescribing the party test necessary for an elector to vote for the delegates to the nominating convention of such party. Persons not possessing the qualifications prescribed may not vote for such party delegates.

A person desiring to vote at any primary election on behalf of any party or for any delegates to any convention is required to write (or have written) on the roster of voters, his name and address and the name of the political party for whose candidates he in good faith intends to vote at the election for which the primary is held.

If challenged, his right to vote must be denied unless he prescribes to the test required by the resolution of the committee of the political party for whose candidates he desires to vote.

The roster of voters must be delivered to the county clerk or registrar of voters and kept as a public record for public inspection for a period of at least two years.

Laws, 1907, c. 352. At the time of registering and of transferring registration, in all places where the primary election law is in force, each elector must declare the name of the political party with which he intends to affiliate at the ensuing primary election or

elections, and the name of such political party must be stated in the affidavit of registration. If the elector declines to state the fact, the fact of such declination is likewise to be stated and no person is entitled to vote at any primary election (by virtue of such registration) unless he has stated the name of the political party with which he intends to affiliate, at the time of such registration. No elector is to be permitted to vote on behalf of any party other than the party so designated in the registration.

In case any elector declines to designate or changes his political affiliation, he is entitled to have the change recorded prior to the close of the registration upon application to the county clerk or registrar of voters. Such application is to be made in person and the elector is required to make affidavit substantially in the following form:

as a

-, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is registered on the great register of the said county of (insert former party affiliation, or that he had declined to designate his party affiliation), that since the date of such registration he had changed his political views and in good faith declares his affiliation with the

party.

The provision requiring an elector at the time of registration to declare his party affiliation in order to be entitled to vote at a primary, is not void for unreasonableness in that it precludes an elector who changes his party affiliation after registration from voting with his new party. Nor is it void as a violation of Const. art. 2, sec. 1, in that it in effect provides an additional qualification to those prescribed therein for electors. Schostag v. Cator, 1907, 151 Cal. 600.

Prohibiting one who has voted at a primary election from

signing a petition for another candidate is not unconstitutional as providing an arbitrary classification of voters. Katz v. Fitzgerald, (Cal.) 1907, 93 Pac. 112.

Colorado. Mills, Ann. St. 1891, sec. 1711. (Not direct.) Excludes any voter from voting at a primary election, who is at the time a member in good faith of a different political party than the one holding such caucus, convention or primary election. The question of the good faith of the voter is to be left to the jury.

See, In re Nominations to Public Offices, 1886, 9 Col. 631. Connecticut. Laws, 1905, c. 273. (Not direct.) A party registration is required previous to the primary.

Qualified electors making application for enrollment are to be listed according to their declared political preference. After the completion of each enrollment, the registrars are required to file twenty-five copies of each party list with the town clerk and are further required to deliver to the chairman of the town committee of each political party which cast 10% or more of the total vote of the town at the last general election, a sufficient number of copies to supply the chairman or clerk of each political primary or caucus to be held before the making of the next enrollment list. In case there is no chairman of a town committee of any political party coming under the provisions of the act then the town clerk is required to furnish the chairman or clerk of each caucus or primary meeting with the party list.

Upon oral or written application to the registrars. any elector enrolled as a member of a party may

have his name transferred to any other party list as he may direct.

Any person made a voter after a regular session of the registrars and prior to the election next succeeding such session may secure a certificate showing that he is entitled to enrollment upon the list of the party named in the application. The certificate is to have. the same effect as though he had been enrolled, and at the time of making the next corrected enrollment list the registrars are to transfer any such name to the regular party list unless otherwise directed by the elec

tor.

Special Law, 1907, no. 321, provides for direct nominations in the town of Manchester.

Delaware. Laws, 1897, c. 393, as amend. by Laws, 1903, c. 285. (New Castle Co. and the City of Wilmington.) If challenged, the person offering to vote must swear or affirm that he is a legally qualified voter under the rules of the party holding the primary. A system of party registration is provided for and no person whose name is not registered in the "voting books of qualified voters for primary elections" is permitted to vote in any primary.

Florida. Laws, 1901, c. 5014, as amend. by Laws, 1903, c. 5248, as amend. by Laws, 1905, c. 5471. The executive or standing committee calling a party primary may declare the terms or conditions on which legal electors, offering to vote at such elections are to be recorded and taken as proper members of the party at whose expense and in whose interest such primary election has been called.

Georgia. Laws, 1890-1, p. 210. If challenged, any elector offering to vote must take an oath that he is duly qualified to vote, according to the rules of the party, holding the primary election.

Idaho. Laws, 1903, p. 360. (Not direct.) It is made unlawful for any person who was not affiliated with the party holding the primary at the last general election, to vote or take any part in such primary; provided that one who since the last election has become of age may vote if otherwise qualified. No person may vote at the primary of more than one political party during any calendar year.

Illinois. Laws, 1908. Any person offering to vote a primary, if challenged, is required to swear or affirm, that he is a member of, and affiliated with, the party; that he has not voted at a primary of another political party within a period of two years; and that he has not signed any nomination petition for nomination of a candidate of any other political party and that he has not signed the nominating papers of any independent candidate for any office to be voted upon at that primary.

In addition to such affidavit the person challenged is required to produce the affidavit of one householder of the precinct who is a qualified voter at the primary and who is personally known or proved to the judges to be a householder in the precinct, who shall swear or affirm, that he verily believes the person challenged to be a member of and affiliated with the party.

Indiana. Laws, 1907, c. 282. Any elector offer