The Delta independent., 1891-06-03
rHE new ELECrIos BILL.
4 Measure 81 Great Importance and
Taterest 10 the s'eopIe OF C0lorsAo.

4 Measure 81 Great Importance and
fnterest 70 the i"Ople OF COlorsAo.
We take from the Denver News the fol.
Toying extracts from the election bill recent.
~ passed by the Legislature. All the i'm
portant provisions are given:
SECTION /. All baiots cast in elections
for public officers or for the decision of any
question submitted to electors. within this
State, shall be printed and distributed at
public expense. The printing of ballots and
cards Of instruction for the voters in each
county and the delivery of the same to the
election officers as hereinafter provided, shall
bea comfy charge, the payment of
which shall Le provided for in the same man
per IS the payment of other county expenses,
but the expense Of printing and delivering
ballots and cards of i struction to be used in
municipal elsctions shall bs charge upon
the city or town in which such election shall
bs held.
SEC. 2. This chapter shall not apply to
any election for school officers held at any
time other than . regular election fer state,
county aad city officers, nor to any special
election at which no persons are to be voted
for for any city. county or state office.
SEC. 8. Any convention of delegates of a
political party wl6ch presented candidates at
the last preceding election, held for the pur-
pose Of making nomination to public Office,
and also voters to the number hereinafter
specified, may nominate candidates for pub
lie Offices 70 be hlled by election within this
state.
CERTIFICATES OF NOMINATION.
Sec. 4. All nominations made by such
convention or committee shall be certified as
follows: The certificate Of nomination
which shall be in writing. shall contain the
name of the Office for which each person is
nominated, the name, postofice address, If
any, and residence Of each such person, and,
II In city. the street number Of resid ence
and place of business, if any, and shall des.
ignate, in not mere than five words, the
party which snch convention or COMMITTEES
represents.
SEC. 5. Certificates Of nomination Of can.
didates for offices to be filled by the voters
Of the entire state, or Of any division or
district greater than a county shall be fled
with the secretsry of state certificates of
nomination Of candidates for Offices to be
filled BY the vsters Of any city or town shall
be fled with the clerk of such city or town.
All other certificates Of nomination shall be
6led with the clerks Of the respective
counties wherein the officers are to be elected
SEC. s. Candidates for public office may
bs nominated otherwise than by conven.
tion or committee in the manner following:
A certificate of nomination containing the
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Allied, With SUCH informatioA as Ia required
70 Be given in certificates provided for by
section of this act, except that said
certificate shall designate in not more than
i've words, ilstesd Of the party, the political
Or other name WHICH the sigpers shall select,
shall be signed by voters residing within the
district or political division in and for which
the officer or officers are to be elected, to the
number Of at least 500. when the nomination
It for an office to be fllsd by the voters of
the entire state;. of At least 100 when the
pomination Is for an Office to be filled by the
voters Of . district less than . state aud
greater than . county; of at least 80 when
the nomination is for an Office to be filed by
oil the voters of . ward, town or other divis.
sion less than = county, other than city.
CERTIFICATES OF NoMINATioNs.
eKc. I. No certificate Of nomination shall
contain the names Of more candidates for any
Sn3ee than there are offices to fill.
SEC. 9. The secretary of state shall cause
70 be preserved in ms sfice, for the period.
cftwo years, all certificates Of nomination
Aled therein under the provisions of this act;
and each county clerk or city clerk, shall
cause to be preserved in his s6ice for like
period, all certificates of nomination fled
therein. All such certificates shall be open
70 public inspection, and under proper
regulations to be made by the officers with
whom the same are filed.
yILINo OF CERTIFICATES OF NOMINATION.
6Ro. .. When nominations are made by
convention or committee, the certificates
Of nomination 30 be fled with the secretary
ofstste shall be filed not more than sixty
nor lees than thirty days before the day Of
election, and the certii q. ties of psn,ination
herein directed to be filed with the county
clerk. shall be filed not nisre than sixty nor
less than fifteen days before election.
SEC. 10. The secretary of stats shall i'm.
msdiately upon the expiration of the time
within which certificates Of nomination niay
b. aied with him and corrections thereof
made, certify to the county clerk of each
county within which any of the voters may
by law vote for the candidates named in the
certificate, the name and description Of each
such candidate together with the other
details mentioned in such certificate nomi-
nation - fled with the secretary of state.
POSTING OF NOMINATIONS.
SEC. IL. Far at least sig successive days
before an election To Gil any public office,
the county clerk of each county or the city
or town clerk of each town. shall give sotice
In net less than two nor more than four
newspapers published within the county,
. list Of all nominations to Offices certified to
him under the provisions Of this act.
In making additional publications, county
clerks shall keep in view the object of giving
information a. far AZ possible to the largest
number Of voters Of all political parties, and
in no event shall such additional publication
ba made in two ne " spnters representinv the