The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-06-18

all fallots the names Of candidates
shall be separated by rules extending
to the extreme right of the colum u !.
All ballots shall contain the name of
each and every candidate whose nom-
ination for any office specified in
the ballot has been certified to and
filed according TO the provisions OF
this Act, and no other name. The
names Of The cand idates for each
office shall be arranged under the
designation of the office in alphabet
ical order, according to surname,
except that the name of candidates
for Presidential Electors shall be
arranged in groups as presented in
the several certificates of nomination
and the names of the candidates for
President and Vice President shall
precede the proper groups Of Pres
idential Electors; The political des-
ignation Of each candidate shall be
printed opposite his name. There
shall be left at the end of the list of
candidates for each office one blank
space to be used when substituting
names to fill vacancies. There shall
be margin at the right hand side of
the names at least ne-half inch wide
SO that the voter may clearly indicate
in the way hereinafter descri0 bed the
candidate or candidates for whom
he wishes to vote. Whenever any
question is to be submitted to the vote
of the people, it shall be printed up
on the ballots IN such manner as to
or h In ho 0I fN
question in The manner hereinafter
provided. There shall be printed on
the ballots opposite the designation
OF each Office such words as will aid
the voter tO indicate his choice of
candidates, such as .svote for One,"
"vote for three" and the like.
Sec. Ii. All ballots, when printed,
shall be bound in stub books of fifty
and one hundred ballots each. A
record of the mum ber of ballot print
ed for them shall be kept by the
respective County Clerks.
Sec. IA. The County Clerks shall
provide for each election precinct
in the county wherein less than
twenty-five voters are registered fifty
ballots, and Ia all other precincts one
hundred ballots for each fifty or
fraction of fifty voters registered in
the precinct.
Sec. Is. Whenever it shall appear
by affidavit, that an error or omis-
sion has occurred in the publication
of the name or description OF any of
the candidates Nominated, or in the
printing of ballots, any member of
the Board of County Commissioners,
upon applications by any voter, shall
issue an order repairing the County
Clerk TO correct such error.
Sec. l6. Before the opening of the
polls, at any election, the County
Clerk shall cause TO be delivered to
the Board of Election of each election
precinct in his county the proper
number of tickets of the kind to be
used in the election precinct. In case
of prevention Of an election in any
precinct by reason Of the loss or des-
truction of the ballots intended for that
precinct, or for any other cause, the
Inspector or other election officer for
the precinct shall make an affidavit
setting forth the fact and transmit it
TO the Governor of the State. Upon
receipt of such affidavit, and upon the
application of any candidate for any
office to be voted for by the voters of
such precinct, the Governor shall or
der a new election in such precinct.
Sec. H. At the same time and in
the same manner as Inspectors and
Judges OF Election are now appoint
ed in the State, there shall be ap-
pointed two Clerks of election, who
shall have charge of the ballots on
election day, and shall furnish them
to the voters in the manner herein
after provided for. Said Clerks OF
Election shall possess the same quail
lfications, and receive the same COM
pensation as inspectors OF Election.
Said Clerks shall be selected from the
political parties which polled the lsrg-
est and the next largest votes in the
precinct at the last preceding general
election.
Sec. Is. The Board OF County Com
missioners shall provide at each
polling within the county, sutflci-
ent number OF places, booths or
ompartments, in which voters may
conveniently mark their ballots, so
that in the marking thereof they may
be screened from the observation OF
others, and guard rail shall be SO
placed that only such persons as are
inside said rail shall approach within
six feet of the ballot box, and OF such
booths or compartments. The ar
,onranoapts sha II he such that neither