1913_public local laws_663_8
CHAPTER 662 AN ACT TO REGULATE PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN BEAU- FORT COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN THE INCORPORATED CITIES OR TOWNS THEREIN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Challenges shall be made, heard, and determined, respectively, in the same manner as in the laws governing elections in North Carolina or the cities and towns in the county of Beaufort, as the case may be. The registration books in all primaries under this act shall be open for a period of ten days, and shall close on the second Saturday preceding the day for holding any primary, and challenge shall be made, heard, and determined during the week preceding the day for holding the primary: Provided, the foregoing provisions shall not be construed to prevent any elector from challenging any one who offers to vote on the primary day: Provided further, in the event there is no registration, that the board of elections or the governing body of any city or town, as the case may be, shall appoint two poll-holders for each political party entering said primary. Any person offering to vote may be challenged by any elector, and if the party affiliation of the voter is in doubt, he shall be required to make oath of such affiliation. Any person otherwise qualified who has not voted in the last two general elections shall have the right to elect his party affiliation: Provided, he does not yote against any candidates of the party in whose primary he enters at the ensuing general election. The test in all cases shall be the party affiliation of the person subject to the foregoing provisions in the last general election, and any person who voted in said general election for candidates of one political party mentioned in this act and who desires to enter the primary of another political party shall make oath, upon being challenged, either to support the candidates of the political party that he enters in the ensuing general election or that he will not vote in opposition to any candidate of that party. No person shall be allowed in said primaries to vote for candidates of but one political party.