ELECTIONS. 1329

be alleged to exist, either or any one of said clerks or any citizen or voter
in said county 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 of Dorchester County as defendants, and the said court shall
have the power to make such order for the correction of said books as
may be proper. The cost of such preparation of proper registry books
shall be paid by the County Commissioners of Dorchester County, upon
proper requisitions and vouchers presented by the Board of Supervisors
of Elections of Dorchester County. 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 substitute 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 tran-
scribing said registered voters in Dorchester County subsequent to April 13,
1914, 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 himself 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 subse-
quent 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 registered voter either his party affiliation or the word
" Declined." Each and every voter as he appears at the first primary elec-
tion at which he votes subsequent to April 13, 1914, shall, before he is per-
mitted 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 provided 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 affiliated with a given political party shall have the right
to vote the official ballot of that party and of no other.

There shall be annually a sitting of the registration officers in and
throughout Dorchester County on the day which shall be the fifth day
before the day of the primary election, excluding the day of the primary
election in the computation of said fifth day prior thereto, on which day
all of said registration officers shall sit from 8 o'clock A. M. until 8 o'clock
P. M. in Dorchester County for the purpose of revising the registration
lists by adding new voters, making transfers, etc., so that fair and full
opportunity may be afforded to all voters, duly qualified, to take part in the