Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-08-27
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
Full Text Of Mevada's New
Election Law.
VOTERS SHOULD READ AND sTsOr ITO
PROVISIONS.
Fair. aud Clean Injections In the
ru,ure if the Law r. Observed.

AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.
Approved March Is, 1884,
Thu People Of the State Of Nevada. rep
resented in Senate and Assembly. do en-
act ss follows:
srorrox 1. All ballots cast in elections
Tor nnblio officers within this State shall
be printed and distributed at public ex-
pense. as hereinafter provided. The
printing Of general tickets and cards oil
instruction for the electors OF each county
and the delivery Of the same TO the cleo
tion officers, 90 provided for in this ACT,
shall be Q county charge, the payment OF
which shall be provided for In the same
manner a. the payment OF other county
expenses, and in case Of separate elections
for oity. 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 payment OF other city,
county or district expenses.
SEC, q. Any convention, as hereinafter
defined, held for the purpose OF making
nominations for public office, and also
electors 10 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 Q political party,
which, al the last election. before the
holding OF such convention, polled 81
least three per cent Of the entire vote csst
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, aud b a
designate the party or principle which
such tion represents. 10 shall be
signed by the Chairman and Secretary OF
such convention, who shall add to their
signatures their respective places OF resi-
dence, and make oath before an officer
authorized to administer the same, that
the matters stated in such certificate are
true to the best Of their knowledge and
belief, and a certificate Of the said oath
shall be annexed TO said certificate OF
nomination.
SEC. f.. A candidate for public Office
may be nominated other wise than by a
o o~nveution in the manner following: A
o ertihcate 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
tiou 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
signe cd by three voters. Said signatures
need not all be appended to one paper, but
each signer shall add TO 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
tifcate OF such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate OF nomination shall have
the same effect as a certificate OF nomina
ton 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. Oerti-
ficates of nomination Of candidates for all
other public offices shall be filed with the
clerks Of the respective counties wherein
the officers are TO be voted for, aud where
q district embraces more than one county,
such certificates shall be filed with the
Clerk Of each Of said counties.
SEC. 6. 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, under
the provision Of Section 4 OF this Act.
more thar one nominee for each Office TO
be filled, and no person who has voted In
sconvention, either in person or by proxy,
for or against . candidate for any office,
shall join in nominating. in any manner,
any other nominee for that office. and no
person shall aocept q nomination 10 more
than one office.
SEc.7 Certificates OF nomination re
quired to be filed with the Secretary Of
State shall not be filed more than sixty
days nor less than forty days before the
day OF election when the nomination ID
made by q convention, and not more than
sixty days nor less than thirty days before
the day of election when the nomination
is made under the provisions OF section
four of this Act. Should Q vacancy occui
from any cause in the list Of nominees fol
any office. such vacancy may be filled al AMI
time before the day OF election by the con
vention, or by q committee TO which ths
convention has delegated the power Il
fill vacancies, or by petitions, as provided
in section four Of this Act. The Chair
man aud Secretary Of the convention, OIL
Of such committee. or such petitioner
shall make and file with the proper Officer
certificate. setting forth the name Of the
person nominated to fill such vacancy, the
office for which he is nominated. the nam
OF the person for whom the new nominee ID
Is TO be substituted, and such further infor
nation as is required TO be given In an
original certificate Of nomination. Wher
such certificate is filed. the officer with
whom il is filed shall substitute the name oil
the person therein for the original nomi
nee. by printing. il practicable. or by writ
ing the name OF the person thus substi'
tuted.
SEQ. g.. Not less thar twenty-five days
before an election to fill any public office
the Secretary Of State shall certify to the
County Clerk OF each county within the
State the name Of each person, n the
name OF the office for which he is nomin.
ated, as specified in the certificate OF
nomination fled with him.
SEC. 9. Not less than ten days before
an election to fill any public Office or Of
fees, the County Clerk shall cause to be
Published all the nominations certified to
or fled with him. Said nominations shall
be published in q Newspaper printed with
in the county. When no newspaper 10
printed within the county. the publication
shall be made by posting 9 COPY OF the
ballot in q public place in each election
precinct within the county. one Of which
copies shall be posted al the courthouse
door. When publication is made by print
log in newspapers, at least two publications
by such newspapers shall be required. one
OF which shall appear in the last regular
issue Of such paper before election day.
SEC. 10. When proposed Constitution,
constitutional amendment or other ques-
tion is to be submitted for popular vote.