Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-01-09
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
Full Text of Nevada's New
Election Law.
VOTERS SHOULD READ AND sIsuv ITS
PROVISIONS.
Fair and Clean Elections In the
ru,ure ~ the Law IL Observed.
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.

Approved March IS, 1884,
The People Of the State Of Nevada, rep
resented In Senate aud Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
SECTION 1. All ballots cast in elections
for public officers within this State shall
be printed and distributed at public ex.
ponse, as hereinafter provided. The
printing Of general tickets and cards OF
Instruction for the electors Of each county,
and the delivery Of the same TO the elec-
lion officers, as provided for in this Act,
shall be 9 county charge, the payment oil
which shall be provided for in the Same
q az the payment OF other county
expenses, and In case OF separate elections
for city, town or district officers, the print
ing and delivery OF tickets and cards OF
instruction shall be charged upon the city,
town or district in which said tickets and
cards are TO be used, the payment OF
which shall be provided for In the same
manner as the pay OF other city
county or district expenses.
SEQ. q. Any convention, as hereinafter
defined, held for the purpose OF making
nominations for public Office, and also
electors TO the number hereinafter speci-
fed, may nominate candidates for public
Offices, 10 be filed by election within the
State. A convention within the meaning
of this Act Is an organized assem- blage oil
delegates representing a political party,
which, at the last election, before the
holding OF such convention, polled al
least three per cent OF the entire vote cast
in the State, county, district or other polit
ical division, for which the nomination is
made.
SEC. 8. All nominations made by such
convention shall be certified as follows:
The certificate Of nomination, which must
be in writing, shall contain the name OF
each person nominated, his residence and
Office for which he is nominated, and shall
designate the party or principle which
such convention represents. II shall be
signed by the Chair man and Secretary OF
such convention, who shall add to their
signatures their respective places OF resi-
dence, and make oath before IN officer
authorized TO administer the same, that
the matters stated in such certificate are
true to the best OF their knowledge and
belief, and q certificate OF the said oath
shall be annexed TO said certificate Of
nomination.
SEC. 4. A candidate for public Office
may be nominated other wise Than by a
convention In the manner following: A
Certificate OF nomination containing the
name Of the candidate to be nominated,
with the other information required 10 be
given in the certificate provided for 10 Sec
tion three OF this Act, shall be signed by
electors residing within the district or
political division for which candidates are
TO be presented, equal in number to at
least three per cent Of the entire vote cast
at the last preceding election in the State,
district or political division for which the
nomination is to be made; provided. that
such certificate shall not be valid unless
sign cd by three voters. Said signatures
need not all be appended to one paper, but
each signei shall add 10 his signature his
place Of residence. One OF the signers OF
each such certificate shall swear that the
statements therein made are true TO the
best Of his knowledge and belief, and q GER
tiicate OF such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate OF nomination shall have
the ssme effect 90 q certificate of nomina
tion made by q party convention.
SEC. 5. Certificates OF nomination of
candidates for offices 10 be voted for by
the electors OF the entire State, shall be
filed with the Secretary OF State. Certi-
ficates OF nomination OF candidates for all
other public Office shall be filed with the
Clerks OF the respective counties wherein
the off GERS are to be voted for, and where
q district embraces more thar one county,
such certificates shall be filed with the
Clerk OF each Of said counties.
SEC. Q. No certificate OF nomination
shall contain the name Of more than one
candidate for each Office to be filed. No
person shall join in nominating, under
the provision of Section 4 Of this Act.
more than one nominee for each office to
be filled, aud no person who has voted In
Q convention, either in person or by proxy, /
for or against Q candidate for any Office,
shall join In nominating. in any manner, 6
any other nominee for that Office, and no
person shall accept a nomination 10 more Z
than one ofios. I
SEo.7 Z. Certificates OF nomination re- I
quired to be filed with the Secretary OF Q
State shall not be filed more than sixty q
days nor less thar forty days before the I
day OF election when the nomination ia '
by . convention, aud not more than 9
sixty days nor less than thirty days before 9
The day OF election when the nomination
10 made under the provisions OF section Q
Jour OF this Act. Should 9 vacancy occur s
from any cause in the list Of nominees for
any office, such vacancy may be filed at any
lime before the day Of election by the con-
or by q committee TO which the
has delegated the power to
vacancies, or by petitions, as provided {
n section four OF this Act. The Chair ]
nan and Secretary of the convention, or
such committee, or such petitioners
hall make and file with the proper officer
certificate, setting forth the name Of the
'erson nominated TO fill such vacancy, the |
'fice for which he is nominated, the name
the person for whom the new nominee il
8 TO be substituted, and such further infor-
nation as Ia required TO be given in an
lFiOinal aartiG a. 40 - non,snA Uh..
uch certificate is filed, the officer with
vhom ID is filed shall substitute the name of
he person therein for the original nomi.
Zee. by printing, il practicable, or by writ
ng the name OF the person thus substi-
uted.
SEC. s. Not less than twenty five days
,efore 81 election TO fill any public Office
he Secretary Of State shall certify to the
Clerk OF each county within the
,tste the name OF each person, and the
iame OF the office for which he is nomin
ted. as specified in the certificate OF
filed with him.
SEC. 9. Not lees than ten days before
IN election to fill any public Office or Of
ices. the County Clerk hall cause TO be
published all the nominations certified to
'r died with him. Said nominations shall
published In . newspaper printed with
n the county. When no newspaper 10
printed within the county. the publication
hall be made by posting . copy Of the
ballot in 9 public place In each election
within the county. one Of which
shall be posted al the courthouse |
ioor. When publication is made by print
ng in newspapers. al least two publications
~ such newspapers shall be required. one
" which shall appear in the last regular
ssue Of such paper before election day.
SEC. 10. When q proposed Constitution,
amendment or other cues
ion 10 to be submitted for popular vote,
he Secretary OF State shall certify the
to the several County Clerks. and said
county Clerks shall publish the same az
for In section 9 OF this Act.
Sec. IL. II shall be the duty Of the
jounty Clerk TO provide printed ballots
or every election for public ohioers. In