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resided In a certain county or city from the fact that the section was circulated in such county or city. To permit either Inference would defeat the object of the constitutional provisions. The place of circulation and the place of residence must each be shown by itself on every section. And the signatures cannot be counted on a section which does not thus show where It was circulated nor can a signature be counted on any section unless It is followed by the signers residence and voting precinct. The inspection of the petition shows that these constitutional provisions were not complied with In all instances in the canvass made by respondent. Undoubtedly a signer to a referendum petition in giving his residence may use common and wellknown abbreviations If there are such designating his county or city but his residence must not be left to guesswork or mere inference. And ditto marks have such a clear and definite meaning that their use cannot be held objectionable. It is also Nike Air Max claimed by relators Nike Air Max 90 that upon some of the sections of the petition there are many names places of residence and voting precincts all apparently in the same handwriting and that from this It should be concluded that the names were written thereon fraudulently and that they should be rejected from the canvass. An examination of the petition lends some plausibility to this claim; but similarity of handwriting is too much a matter of opinion and the whole proposition is too indefinite to be acted upon in such a Coach Outlet Store Online canvass as the secretary of state is required to make. It is also claimed by relators that signatures were counted upon sections of the petition to which no proper affidavit was attached. The Constitution requires that:Each section shall have attached Coach Outlet Store Online thereto the Christian Louboutin Outlet affidavit of the person soliciting signatures to the same stating his own qualifications and that all the signatures to the attached section were made in his presence that each signature to the section is the genuine signature of the person signing the same and no other affidavit thereto shall be required.Without such affidavit a section has no validity whatever. It must among other things state the qualifications of the solicitor by whom it is made. He is required to be an elector within the county in which the section was circulated. When the Constitution says:Any qualified elector of the state shall be competent to solicit such signatures within the county in which he is an electorit impliedly and by a wellknown rule of construction precludes him from soliciting signatures in any county in which he is not an elector. The signatures upon any section must be excluded from the count unless the affidavit attached thereto affirmatively shows that the person making it was an elector of the county in which the section was clculated. The affidavit must also have been made before the section was filed with the county clerk and it cannot be Coach Outlet Store Online changed after such filing. After the various sections of the referendum petition from the counties of Wayne and Kent had been received at the office of the secretary of state they Nike Shoes Australia were returned by respondent to the clerks of those counties respectively. Afterwards they were again transmitted Christian Louboutin Outlet to the office of the secretary of state. Relators claim that this act of respondent in returning such sections of the petition was unauthorized and illegal and that It destroyed the validity of every section returned because relators say various changes were made by interested
