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done by the said clerks and the new books, after being transcribed, shall
correspond in all respects, and if they do not correspond at the conclusion of
the work, or if any error in transcribing be alleged to exist, either or any
one of said clerks or any citizen or voter in any one of said Counties may file
a petition in the Circuit Court within ten days after said work is finished,
naming said clerks and the Board of Supervisors of Elections as defendants,
and the said Court shall have the power to make such order for the correc-
tion of said books as may be proper. The cost of such preparation of proper
registry books shall be paid by the County Commissioners of the County
in which such sub-division shall be made, upon proper requisitions and
vouchers presented by the Boards of Supervisors of Election. Any political
party that polled more than one per cent, of the votes cast at the last election
may, through its political committee, if it has one, or by citizens representing
said party, if there be no political committee, name a watcher and substi-
tute watcher who shall be permitted to attend at the transcribing of said
names and have power to examine the said books during the sittings of said
clerks for the said work and for a period of five days thereafter in the
presence of said Board of Supervisors. In the books of registry so provided
for to be used in transcribing said registered voters in each and every
County of the State, subsequent to the passage of this Act, there shall be
provided a distinct column headed " Party Affiliations," and the Board of
Registers shall enter in this column the name of the political party, if any,
to which the voter is inclined and with which the voter desires to have him-
self recorded as affiliated. It shall be the duty of the Board of Registry to
explain to each voter that the statement of such party affiliation does not
bind him to vote for the candidate of such party at any given election; also
that he has the right to decline to state any party affiliations; but that no
one who is not recorded upon the registry as affiliated with a particular
political party will be qualified to vote at subsequent primary elections of
said political party. Whenever a voter declines to state his party affiliations,
the word " Declined " shall be written opposite his name in such column so
that there shall be written in such column opposite the name of every regis-
tered voter, either his party affiliation or the word " Declined." Each and
every voter as he appears at the first primary election at which he votes sub-
sequent to the passage of this Act shall, before he is permitted to vote at said
primary, state to which party he is inclined and to which party he desires to
have himself recorded as affiliated, and the Board of Registers, then sitting
as judges of election, shall thereupon and at once enter in the column pro-
vided for party affiliations the name of the political party to which the
voter is inclined and with which he desires to affiliate, and in said primary
and all primary elections thereafter held, any person so registered as affili-
ated with a given political party shall have the right to vote the official ballot
of that party and of no other.

All persons arriving at the age of twenty-one years, after the closing of
the next preceding registration, or who shall attain the age of twenty-one
years before the general election for which the primary election is held,
entitled to be registered as qualified voters, shall be entitled to vote upon
proving, under oath, to the satisfaction of a majority of the Judges of