The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-07-31
NEW BALLOTLAW.
A FULL TEXT OF IT'S PROVIS-
IONS GIVEN.
HOW YOU ARE REQUIRED TO VOTE.
The Herald" Presents to It's Many
Readers the New Election Law
Recently Adopted by the
State Legislature.
YOU ARE REQUIRED TO VOTE.


An act to regulate the nomination
and election of public officers recurring
certain expenses incident thereto to be
paid by theseveral counties and certain
other expenses to be paid by the com
mon wealth and furnishing certain Of
ticers in regard to such elections.
Sec. l. Be it enacted by the senate
and house of representatives of the
common ealth of Pennsylvania, in
general assembly met, and it IL hereby
enacted by the authority of the same.
That from and after March |, 1892, all
ballots cast in elections for public Of.
ticers within this wealth shall
he printed and distributed at public
expense as hereinafter provided.
The printing of the ballots and
of the cards of instruction for
the elections in each county and
the delivery Of the same to the
election officers, as hereinafter pro-
vided and all other expenses incurred
under the provisions of this act shall
he a county charge, unless herein
otherwise provided, the payment of
which shall be provided for in the
same manner ~ the payment of other
election expenses. 1t shall be the duty
of the secretary of the commonwealth
to prepare forms for all the blanks
made nee .sssry or advisable by this
act and to furnish copies Of the same
to the county commissioners of each
county, who shall procure further cop
les If the same at the cost Ofthe county
and furnish them to the election off
GERS or other persons by whom they
are to be used in such quantities as may
be necessary to carry out the provisions
of this act.
See. 2. Any convention of delegates or
primary meeting of electors, oil caucus
held under the rules of a political party,
OF any board authorized to certify nom
nations representing a political party,
which, at the election next preceding
polled at least 3 per cent. of the largest
entire vote for any office cast in the
state or in the electoral district or divi-
sion thereof, for which such primary
I meeting, caucus, convention or board
desires to make or certify nominations
may nominate one candidate for each
flee which is to be filled in the state
or in the said district or division at the
nextensuing election by causing acerti-
ficate of denomination to be drawn up and
filed as hereinafter provided; provided
that any political party which polled
3 per cent. of the entire vote in the.
state at the election mex preceding at
which a state officer was voted for,
may make and certify nominations ac.
cording to the provisions of this section
for any electoral division or district of
the state, Notwithstanding that such
political party may have polled less
than 3 per cent Of the entire vote at
the last preceding election in said
electoral district or division. Every
such certificate of nomination shall be
signed by the presiding officer and the
secretary or secretaries of the conven-
ton or primary meetings or ucu o.
board, who shall add thereto their
places of residence and shall be sworn
or affirmed to by them before an officer
qualified to administer oaths, TO l. r
TO the best of their %knowledg' and
belief, and IA certificate of the oath shall
be annexed to the certificate of Lonli-
nation.
Sec. 8. Nominations of candidates
for any public office may also be made
by nomination papers signed by quail
fed electors of the state or of the cleo
toral district or division thereof for
which the nomination is made and
filed in the proper office, as provided
in section 8 of this act. Where the
nomination is for any Office to be filled
by the voters of the state at large the
number OF qualified electors of the
state signing such nomination paper
shall be at least oue-half of l per cent. of
the largest vote for any officer elected
in the state at the last preceding cleo
ton at which a state officer was voted
for. In the case of all other nomi-
nations the number of qua'ified electors
of the electoral district or division
signing such nomination paper shall
be at least 3 pr cent, of the largest
entire vote for any officer elected at the
last preceding election in the said cleo
toral district or division for which said
nomination papers are designed to be
made. Each elector signing nOmina-
ton paper shall add TO his signature his
place of residence aud occupation, and
no person may subscribe to more than
one nomination for each office to be
filled. The signatures to each nomina.
ton paper and the qualification Of the
signers snail be vouched for by the
affidavit of at least five of the signers
thereof, which affidavit shall accom-
pany the nomination paper; provided
llldL n"bllllhhbaou papers WnlCu are uoA
signed and made out in strict COM
| p~liance with all the requirements OF
this act shall be invalid.
NOMINATION PAPERS MUST BE Elk
PLICIp.
Sec. A. All certificates of nomination
and nomination papers shall specify.
One ~, The party or policy which
such candidate represents expressed il
not more than three words in this
case Of electors of president aud vice
president of the United States the