Show Changes in voter laws of the state will affect 1966 general election Voters of Duchesne County were reminded this week that the 1965 legislature altered the Utah election code in three significant These include requirement of registration and primary election participation by political of registration and revision of the political calendar Commencing in all applicants for registration will be required to identify their party Those who re- fuse to do or who avow no partisan will be registered as All registration lists and books will reflect either the party allegiance or the status of every Republican and Democratic primary ballots will be printed Republican registrants will receive only the Republican primary Democrat registrants will receive only the Democrat primary All such ballots will be cast in a common and will be separated as to party by election absent the unlikely event of an will not participate in the primary They will be entitled neither to a Republican ballot nor to a Democratic Persons automatically qualified as 1966 electors by reason of voting in the 1964 general election will not be required to register prior to the 1966 The legislature provided for them by specifying in 1966 primary election officials will ask those automatically registered their party enter it on the registration book and hand them the appropriate primary Once a person may change his Democratic or label only by filling a of in the form prescribed by with the county clerk or his registration agent at least ten days prior to the primary election in which he wishes to vote under the new The legislature also relaxed registration which previously have been somewhat Two aspects of these changes merit specific there will not be unrestricted registration during regular office hours by the county except for a ten day period preceding any it was necessary for an applicant for registration by the clerk to swear that he had been absent from the county on all previous registration This is no Ion- ger which in that an applicant for registration need pay no attention whatever to his neighborhood registration If the registration book is in the clerk's he will enter the name of the person registering with If the book is in the custody of the registration the clerk will send the registration oath and any other necessary papers to the registration agent who will enter the temporarily absent from their respective counties may now by means of a notarized in the form prescribed by with the county This type of registration is limited to ministers or or persons so absent by reason of employment It fills a gap which existed under prior |