Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-10-22
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
Full Text of Mevada's New
Election Law.
VOTES SHOULD READ AND sTsur ITS
PROVISIONS.
Fair and Clean Elections Ban n
future ar n Law Is observed.
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.

The People OF the State OF Nevada rep
resented in senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
SECTION 1. All ballots cast in elections
for public officers within this State shat
be printed and distributed at public ex-
pense, as hereinafter provided. Inc
printing Of general tickets aud cards OF
instruction for the electors Of each county,
and the delivery Of the same to the cleo
ton officers, s. provided for 10 this Act,
shall be a county charge. the payment Of
which shall be provided for in the same
manner az the payment OF other county
expenses, and in case Of separate elections
for city, town or district officers, the print
ing aud delivery OF tickets aud 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
ann as the payment OF other city,
county or district expenses.
SIC. 2. Any convention, as hereinafter
defined. held for the purpose OF making
nominations for public office, aud also
electors &c the number hereinafter speci-
fed, may nominate candidates for public
offices, 10 be illed by election within The
State. A convention within the meaning
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delegates representing q political party,
which, al the last election, before the
holding of such ton, polled at
least three per cant Of the entire vote cast
in the STATE, county, district or other polit
ical division, for which the nomination 10
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
e.ch person nominated, his residence and
Office for which be is nominated, and shall
designate the party or principle which
such convention represents. IL 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 aud
belief, and q certificate OF the said oath
shall be annexed 10 said certificate OF
nomination.
SEC. 4. A candidate for public ofics
may be nominated otherwise than by a
. invention in the manner following: A
. srtifcate Of nomination containing the
name of the candidate to be Nominated,
with the other information requiredto be
given 10 the certificate provided for in Sec
ton 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 proceeding 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
signed 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
bsst OF his knowledge aud belief, and a GER
titicate OF such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate OF nomination shall have
the same effect as a certificate of nomina-
ton made by a party convention.
SEC. 5. Certificates OF nomination OF
candidates for offices TO be voted for By
the electors OF the entire State, shall be
filed with the Secretary OF State. Oerti-
icates Of nomination of candidates for all
other public offices shall be filed with tbs
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 filed. No
person shall join in nominating, unde
the provision OF Section 4 OF this Act.
more than one nominee for each Office to
be filed, and no person who has voted In
ac%onvention, either in person or by proxy,
for or against q candidate for any Office,
shall join in nominating, in any manner,
any other nominee for that office, and no
person shall accept q nomination to more
than n 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 is
made by q convention, and not more b
sixty days nor less than thirty days before
the day Of election when the alton
Is made under the provisions of section
four OF this Act. Should q vacancy occur
from any cause in the lisfof nominees for
any office, such vacancy may be filled at any
time before the day OF election by the con
v~ention. or by a committee to which ths
convention has delegated the power to
fill vacancies, or by petitions, as provided
in section four of this Act. The Chair
man and Secretary Of the convention, or
of such committee, or such petitioners
shall make and file with the proper officer
q certificate, setting forth the name Of the
person nominated to fill such vacancy, the
office for which he is nominated, the name
of the person for whom the new nominee il
is to be substituted, and such further infor
nation as ia required to be given in az
original certificate OF nomin alton. When
such certificate is filed, the officer with
whom il Is filed shall So Institute the name OF
the person therein for the orr yinal nomi
nee. by printing, il practicable. or by writ
ing the name of che person thus substi-
tuted.
SEC. s. Not less than 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, and the
name OF the Office for which be is nomin-
ated, as specified in the certificate Of
nomination filed with him.
SEC. 8. 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 filed with him. Said nominations shall
be published in a newspaper printed with
in the county. When no newspaper is
printed within the county. the publication
shall be made by posting a copy OF the
ballot in a public place in each election
precinct within the county. one OF which
copies shall be posted at the court house
door. When publication IL made by print
ing in newspapers, al 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 4 proposed Constitution,
constitutional amendment or other ques-
tion is to be submitted for popular vote.
the Secretary Of State shall certify the
same to the several County Clerks. and said
County Clerks shall publish the same a.
provided for 10 section 9 Of this Act.
SEC. IL. II shall be the duty OF the
County CLERK 10 provide printed ballots