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nomination.® The papers thus filed were to be “kept open, 
under proper regulations, to public inspection”.'^ 
The secretary of state, or the city clerk, in case of a city 
election, was authorized to prepare an official ballot containing 
the names of candidates nominated as above indicated.® The 
enactment, in fact, contained a modified form of the Austra- 
lian ballot. For the former unofficial party ballot there was 
substituted an official secret ballot, the form, preparation, and 
distribution of which were carefully regulated by law.® 
The nominating procedure was further regulated twelve 
years later (1903) by the enactment of an enrollment law. 
Participation in a caucus of a political party was limited by 
the act to persons legally enrolled.^® A legal voter became 
enrolled as a member of a political party by filing with the 
town or city clerk a written and signed declaration giving 
his name, residence, place of last enrollment, and the party in 
which last enrolled. Following a new enrollment which in- 
dicated a change of party, the voter was denied the right to 
vote in any political caucus within six months.^^ A legally 
qualified voter not previously enrolled, it was provided, could 
enroll, however, even during a party caucus by making oath 
that he was “a member of that political party” and intended 
“to vote for its candidates at the election next ensuing”, and 
that he had not “taken part or voted at the caucus of any 
other political party in the six months last past”. Separate 
enrollment books for each political party were to be kept by 
the city or town clerk. These books were public records to 
be open to public inspection.^^ 
Political party caucuses held for the purpose of nominating 
candidates or choosing delegates to a delegate convention 
were required to comply with specified restrictions. Voting 
for delegates to a nominating convention should be by ballot 
only. Notices of caucuses, signed by the chairman and secre- 
tary of the city or town committee, should be posted in at least 
® Maine, Acts and Resolves, 1891, chap, cii, sec. 6. 
^ Ibid., sec. 9. 
® A place on the official ballot could also he obtained by candidates nominated by 
nomination papers signed by one thousand qualified voters for a state office, and by not 
less “than one for every one hundred persons who voted at the next preceding guber- 
natorial election” for an office in an electoi’al district, municipality, or ward. Ibid., 
sec. 4. 
® Ibid., amended by Acts and Resolves, 1893, chap, cclxvii. 
1*’ Ibid., sec. 1. 
Ibid., sec, 2. 
12 Ibid., sec. 3. 
