Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-06-25
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
FULL TEXT OF NEVADA's NEW
ELECTION LAW.
Voters should Read and study Its
Provisions.
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND To MORE FULLY SECURE
THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.


GApproved March 70, 1891
The People of the State OF Nevada, repre-
scented in Senate and Assembly, do enac
as follows:
SECTION I. All ballots cast in elections
| for public officers within this State shall ht
printed and distributed at public expense, a!
hereinafter provided. The printing of gen
! eral tickets and cards of instruction for the
electors of each county, and The delivery o
the same to the election officers, as provided
for in this Act, shall be a county charge, the
payment of which shall be provided for II
the same manner as the payment OF othei
county expenses, and in case OF separate
elections for city, town or district officers,
the printing and delivery of tickets and
cards of instruction shall be a charge upon
the city, town or district in which said tick
cts and cards are to be used. the payment oil
which shall be provided for in the same
manner as the payment Of other city, coun-
ty or district expenses.
SEC. z. Any convention, as hereinafter
defined, held for the purpose of making
nominations for public Office, and also cleo
tors to the number hereinafter specified, may
nominate candidates for public Offices, to be
filled by election within the State. A con-
vention within the meaning OF this Act is
an organized assemblage Of delegates rep
resenting political party, which, at the
last election, before the holding Of such
convention, polled at least three per cent
Of the entire vote cast in the State, county,
district or other political division, for which
the nomination is made.
SEC. 3. All nominations made by any
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 the
office for which he is nominated, and shall
designate the party or principle which such
convention represents. 1t shall be signed
by the Chairman and Secretary Of such con-
vention, who shall add to their signatures
their respective places OF residence, and
make oath before an officer authorized to
administer the same, that the matters stated
IN such certificate are true to the best oil
their knowledge and belief, and certificate
of the said oath shall be annexed to said
certificate Of nomination.
SEC. 4. A candidate for public Office may
be nominated otherwise than by conyen.
ton in the following manner; certihcat'
Of nomination containing the name o! the
candidate to be nominated, with the other
information required to be given in the Ger.
tihIate provided for in section 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 cleo
ton IN the State, district or political dvis-
ion for which the nomination is 10 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 sig
nature 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
certificate of such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate of nomination shall have
the same effect as certificate Of nomina.
ton made by party convention.
SEC. {. 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. Certificates Of
nomination of candidates for all other pub.
lie offices shall be filed with the Clerks Of
Tue respective coun'es wnereh 'ne omce'S
are 10 DC Vo'eo io'' anu ~hefe ois'''ce en-
pIaIes more IMAM one county s9cn ce'linca.e
Snsii oe nieu Win Inc |'eik OIL each OIL S"'o
'ouu'.es:
De- y; NO eei',"ca'e Vi nomination Snaii
contain Tue name Vi more IMAM one cahui-
uS tu 'oi eacn ONCE 70 DC nllea. NO person
:nai joii III noiiilnatlhs' u"uel inc ProVls'
lo"S VI S;cl'on VI 'nis ACT more 'nAh one
'oliil"ee ,oi eseh o'i'1e 10 oe "''eu' anu no
Peiso" "no nsS voteu III eo"ven'loh' eltn-
~ sou Vi ny proxy ,or OF against any
eS"uiuA!e lol any ONCE sha'' JON IN homi-
ts','s' III any "iahhei' any otne, nominee
'o' tna' oihee' anu no person snaii accept
"' S"n " iioie .ha" ono oniee'
ohG' l. HI'',nea'eS o' NOMINATION. re-
qun.u 10 DC "ieu WIN inc secretary OF state
sna'' oe nleu ho' more 'nan sixty Gays nor
.' eSS nan MY uAyS oeioie inc Jay Oh e'ec'
''o", ~"en ,'e nomination ID maue Dy con-
,sa n', ~ anu no' Ho'e tha" sky uAys nor
80. 80 'laI .h'.ty u"ys oeiole inc uay VI eiec'
I'm "nen 'h' nomination Is 'hAue undei
1 Es. Paos,sons Vi SECTION loul OF ms Aet.
sIaa ,';'t ., VI non."S Hi REQUIRED 70 DC
~ 49, ~. WV" .t sne Sou"y N'eiNS shA, DC nleu
uo' ",o'e 'han my Gays nor less than thirty