Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-03-13
AUSTRALIAN ELECTION LAW.
rs. B. No. 1871

An Act Providing for Printing and Distributing
Ballots ut Public Expense, and to Regulate Vot-
ing at All General Elections, Except Municipal,
Town or School Elections.
Be i Enae,1a Gy he Legislative Assrmdy Of Tie
SECTION /. All ballots cast at cleo
tions for public officers within this State
Except municipal and town officers and
all school officers except Superintendent
and distributed at public expense, as
hereinafter provided. The printing of
ballots and cards of instruction for the
electors in each county and the deliv-
cry of the same to the election officers, as
hereinafter provided, shall be a county
charge, the payment of which shall be
provided for in the same manner as the
T. payment of other county expenses.
E 2. Any convention, held for the
purpose of making nominations for pub
lie Office, and also electors to the num-
Der hereinafter specified, may nominate
candidates for public Office, to be filled
. by election within the State. A conven-
( ton, within the meaning of this act, is
an organized assemblage of electors or
delegates, representing a political party
or principle.
SEC. 3. All nominations made by such
convention shall be certified as follows:
The certificate of nomination, which
shall be in writing, shall contain the
name of each person nominated, his resi-
dence, his business, his address and the
office for which he is named, and shall
designate, in not more than five words,
the party or principle which such on
signed by the presiding officer and secre-
tary of such convention, who shall add
to their signatures their respective place
of residence, their business and address.
Such certificate, made out as herein re-
quired, shall be delivered by the secre-
tary or president of such convention by
registered letter or in person, without
charge, to the Secretary of State or to
the county auditor, as hereinafter re-
quired.
SEC. 4. Certificates of nomination of
candidates for Offices, to be filled by the
electors of the entire State, or of any d.
vision or district greater than a county,
and forSall legislative officers, shall be
filed with the Secretary of State. Ger
tificates of nomination for county officers
shall be filed with the auditor of the re-
~spective counties wherein the officers
are to be elected.
SEC. S. Candidates for public Office
may be nominated otherwise than by con-
vention, in the manner following: A GER
tificate of nomination, containing the
name of a candidate for the office to be
g. filled, with such information as is re-
:. quired to be given in certificates pro-
Z be signed by electors residing within the
district or political division in and for
which the officer or officers are to be
elected, in the following numbers: The
number of signatures shall not be less
than 200 when the nomination is for an
office to be filled by the electors of the
entire State, and need not exceed 100
when the election is for an office to be
filed by the electors of a county, dis
Irict or other division less than a State:
Provided, That the said signatures need
lot all be appended to paper. Each
doctor signing a certificate shall add to
lis name his place of residence, his busl-
less and his address. Such certificate
nay be filed as provided for in Section 4
4 this act, in the same manner and with
tie same effect as a certificate of nomi-
ntion made by a party convention.
SEC. 6. No certificate Of nomination
aall contain the name of more than one
andidate for each office to be filled.
10 person shall join in the nomination
1 more than one person for each office
be filled, and no person shall accept a
Illumination to more than one office.
NSEc. 7. The Secretary of State and
Nuse to be preserved in their respective
,Nices for six months all certificates of
Elimination filed in their respective off
ar rs under the provisions of this act. All
flch certificates shall be open to public
sspection under proper regulations, to
"A made by the officers with whom the
me are filed. The board of county
commissioners of each county in the
hdate shall, at their first session after the
king effect of this act, divide their re-
Inactive counties into election precints
3$s d establish the boundaries of the
nEne. The entirety of civil townships,
3ies or villages as voting precincts shall
pol preserved as much as possible, except
len such preservation would conflict
refh the provisions of this section. In
1Eh case the civil township, city or vii
Vie shall be divided into two or more
points; but in no case shall a precinct
indcomposed of parts of two civil town
dps or part of a township and city or
1Iage or part thereof. Such board of
commissioners shall designate one vot-
ON place in each precinct, and each pre-
&T4 ncb Sudl1 COutdlu TWO uuuuF0O ana
saSy electors, or less, based on the num-
dSlr of votes cast at the last general cleo.
ia; but no precinct shall contain more
mtan three hundred electors. If, at any
}ftion hereafter, three hundred or more
Eattes shall be cast at any voting place, it
- jill be the duty of the Inspector in
onash precinct to report the same to the
ius1rd of county commissioners, who
pas3l, at their next regular meeting, d.
Mp such precinct as nearly as possible
spradhat the new precincts formed thereof
HceAl each contain two hundred and
SaS electors, as nearly as practicable.
mar}EC.s 8. Certificates of nominations to
M}led with the Secretary of State shall
onfled not more than sixty days and not
had than thirty days before the day fixed
plachw for the election of the persons in
V Jination. Certificates of nomination
~ i'm directed to be filed with the au-
o \ Nh shall be filed not more than sixty
ali I'll and not less than twenty days be-