Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-06-13
ELECTION LAW.
Full Text OF the Australian Ballot Law
Which Goes Into Effect at The
Next Election.
A Very Important law For All Electors
to Study az 1t Radically Changes
All Election Duties.
1t Also Changes the Mode Of Preparing
Ballots BY the Voter and Man.
ner of Voting.

An act to Promote the Independence OF
Voters at Public Elections, and to Enforce the
Secrecy OF the Ballot. Be it enacted, etc
SECTION l. All ballots cast in elections for
public officers within the State of South Dakota
except school, district or school township offi-
GERS and township oficersj shall be printed
and distributed 0t public expense as herenaf-
ter provided. The printing OF ballots and
cards Of instruction for the electors in each
county, and the delivery Of the same TO
the election officers, as hereinafter pro-
vided, the payment of which shall be provided
for in the same manner az othel county expen-
ses, but the expense OF printing aud delivering
the ballots shall, in the case OF municipal elec-
tions, be a charge upon the city or town in
which such election shah be held
SEC 2 Any convention or primary meeting,
as hereinafter defined, held for the purpose Of
making nominations 10 public office. and also
electors to the number hereinafter specified,
may nominate candidates for public Office to be
filed by election within the state. A conven-
- tion or primary meeting within the meaning of
this act, is AN organized assemblage OF electors
or delegates representing . political party OF
principle.
SEC 3. All nominations made by such con-
vention or primary meeting shall be certified as
follows: The certificates OF nomination shall
be I'm writing shall contain the name Of each
person nominated, his residence his business
his business address, and the Office for which he
ts r.-ued. and shall designate in not more than
Eve words the party or principle which such
convention or primary meeting represents, and
It shall be signed by the presiding oficer and
secretary of such convention or primary meet
ing who shall add to their signatures their res
pective places OF residence. their business and
business addresses Such certificates made
out as herein required shall be delivered by the
secretary or president OF such convention or
primary meeting, TO the Secretary of State or
TO the County Auditor as hereinafter required.
SEC l. Certificates Of nomination Of candi-
dates to be filled by the electors OF the entire
state, or any division or district greater than a
county, shall be filed with the Secretary OF
State Certificates OF nomination for county
and precinct officers shall be filed with the Au-
dior Of the respective counties whereia the Of
hcers are to be elected Certificates of nomt-
nation for municipal officers shall be fled wit
the clerks Of the respective municipal corpora
tions wherein the officers are to be elected
The certificates for the nomination Of joint
member of either branch of the Legislature,
shall be filed In the offices OF the County Audi-
tor OF all counties to be represented by such
Joint member.
SEQ s. Candidates for public office may be
nominated otherwise than by convention or
primary meeting in the manner following: A
certificate Of nomination containing The name
OF the candidate for the office TO be filed,
with such information as is required to be gwen
f,,n fHaHf for In of
act. shall 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 sig
natures shall be two hundred or more when the
nomination is for an Office to be filed by the
electors of the entire state. and need not ex-
ceed twenty when the election is for an office to
be filed by the electors Of a county district or
other division less than the state, and need not
exceed five when the nomination is for an Office
to be filed by the electors of a township, pre-
cinct or ward Provided. that the said sigma
lures need not all be appended to one paper.
Each eiector signing certificate shall add to
his signature his place Of residence his bust
ness and his business address. Such certificate
may be fled as provided for in Section Of this
act in the same manner and with the same ef-
feet as a certificate Of nomination made by q
party convention or primary meeting
SEC g. No certificate OF nomination shall
contain the name of more than one candidate
for each Office TO be filled. No person shall
join in nominating more than one person for
each ofice to be filled, except as otherwise
provided by law. and no person shall accept q
nomination TO more than one office.
6Ec z. The Secretary Of State and the audi
tors Of the several counties aud of the several
municipal corporations shall cause to be pre-
served in their respective offices for two
years all certificates OF nimination flied in
thei respective offices under the pro-
visions Of this act. ALI such GER
tfncates shall bs open 70 public in
spection under proper regulations to be made
by the officers with whom the same are filed
$40 g. Certificates of nomination TO be iled
with the Secretary Of State. shall DO iled not
less than thirty days before the day fxed by
law for the election of the persons In nom'a>
tion. Certificates Of nomination herein direct
Cd 20 bs fed with The County Auditor shall be
nlsd not more than sixty days and not less than
twenty days before slsotion: certificates for the
nomination OF candidates for municipal Offices
shall be fisd with the clerks OF the respective
municipal corporations not moro than thirty
DAYS aud not less than three dsys previous to
Ne day Of ELECTION. Provided. That she provis-
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