1904.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 1908

Board of Registry to explain to the voter that the
statement of the said party affiliation does not bind
him to vote for the candidates of said party at any
given election; also that he has the right to decline to
state any party affiliation, but that no one who is not
recorded upon the registration book as affiliated with
a particular political party will be qualified to vote at
subsequent primary elections of said political party.
Whenever the voter declines to state his party affili-
ation the word 'declined,' shall be written opposite
the name under said column, so that there shall be
written in each column opposite the name of each reg-
istered voter either his party affiliation or the word
"declined" and in all primary elections held in the
year 1907 and biennially thereafter any person so
registered as affiliated with the given political party
shall have the right to receive and vote the ballot of
that party and of no other, and at any intermediate
registration subsequent to the general registration in
1907 such voter may appear before the board of regis-
try and upon his identity being established to a ma-
jority of the board of registry he shall have the right
to require the said board of registry to make, alter or
strike out any entry in the column headed "Affilia-
tion" opposite his name on the registration book. It
shall be the duty of the board of registers, to enter in

the column headed "Remarks" the fact that such en-
try was made, altered or stricken out and the date
thereof.

"Sec. 17. If at any primary held under the provis-
ions of this act any person shall falsely impersonate
any voter or other person and vote or attempt or offer
to vote in or upon the name of such voter or other
person, or shall vote or attempt to vote in or upon the
name of any other person whether living or dead, or
in or upon any false, assumed or fictitious name or in
or upon any namt: not his own, or shall knowingly,
willfully, fraudulently vote more than once for any
candidate for the same office or shall vote or attempt or
offer to vote in any election precinct without having a
legal right to vote therein or shall vote more than once
or in any more than one election precinct or having once