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Such primary elections shall be held on the day established by general state law preceding the general municipal election. The officers of election appointed for the general municipal election shall be the officers of the primary election and it shall be held at the same places so far as possible and the polls shall be opened and closed at same hours. The names of all candidates nominated in accordance with the pro-visions of section 107, and no others, shall be printed upon the ballots to be used at such primary election.
Editor's note: This section was amended by the voters of the city on March 26, 1996.
At least seven days prior to the day of said primary election the city clerk shall cause to be published for three consecutive days, in at least one daily newspaper published in the city, or posted if so directed by the council for three days in three public places in the city designated by the council, the name of all the persons so nominated, and the offices for which the several candidates were respectively nominated as they will appear upon the primary ballots.
The clerk shall cause the ballots to be printed, and, except when voting machines are used, numbered and bound, which ballots shall contain the list of names of candidates and respective offices to be voted for in each municipal precinct as so published or posted, with the following caption: Primary nominating election, City of Alhambra (inserting date thereof).
βTo vote, stamp a cross opposite the name of the candidate voted for, except that when the name of the candidate is written in by a voter the cross shall not be made.β
The names of the offices to be filled shall be arranged on the ballots in the order the officers of the city to be elected are named in this Charter, and the names of the candidates for each office shall be arranged on the ballot of the primary nominating election in alphabetical order. There shall be nothing on any ballot indicative of the party affiliation, source of candidacy or support of any candidate.
Each ballot shall contain blank spaces underneath the printed names of candidates for each office, wherein the voter may write the names of any candidate whose name is not printed on the ballot and for whom he or she may wish to vote, and in such case a cross shall not be stamped opposite such written name.
Editor's note: This section was amended by the voters of the city on March 26, 1996.
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