Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-06-30
ACTS
OF THE
TWenty-fOudh General Assembly,
THE ELECTION LAW.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE
PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF
BALLOTS AT PUBLIC EXPENSE,
AND FOR THE NOMINATION OF
, CANDIDATES FOR PUBLIC OFFICES;
TO REGULATE THE MANNER OF
HOLDING ELECTIONS; AND TO EN-
FORCE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.
Be II enacted by The General assembly of the State
Of IoWd:
SECTION l. That in all elections to be
held after November |, 1892, in the state
for public officers Except those elected at
school elections), the voting shall be by
ballots printed and distributed at public
expense as hereinafter provided and no
other ballots shall be used.
SEC. 2. The printing and distributing of
ballots and cards of instruction to the
voters, as hereinafter described for any
general election, shall be at the expense Of
the county and shall be provided for in
the same manner as other county election
expenses; and the printing and distrIbu-
ting of ballots for use in city elections shall
be at the expense of the city or town in
which such election shall be held.
The term general election" as used in
this act, shall apply to any election held for
the choice of national, state, judicial,
district, county or township officers,
whether for the full term or for the filling
of a vacancy. The term ''city election"
shall apply to any municipal election held
in city or Incorporated town.
Sec. 3. Any convention of delegates,
primary, caucus or meeting of qualified
voters as hereinafter defined, and individu-
al electors to the number and in the
manner hereinafter specified, may nomi-
nate candidates for pubic Office whose
names shall be p a ed upon the ballots to
no furnished n < hnrninn nyOvilnd
SEC t. Any convention of delegates,
primary, caucus or meeting representing a
political party. which at the general eIec-
ton next preceding polled at least two GU
per cent of the entire vote cast in the state
or division thereof, or municipality for
which the nomination is made, may for
the state or division thereof, or municipal
ity for which the convention, primary eau
Gus or meeting is held, as the case may be,
by causing n certificate determination to be
duly filel, make one such nomination for
each office therein to b. filled at the cleo
lion. Every such certificate of nomina-
ton shall state such facts as are required
in section of this act, and shall be signed
by the presiding officer and by the score.
tary of the convention, caucus or meeting,
who shall add to their signatures their
places of residence. Where such nomina.
ton is made by q primary election, the
certificate shall be s!gnel by the board of
canvass rs, to which the returns of
such primary are made. Such certificate
shall be sworn to by them to be true, to the
best of their knowledge ard belief, and
certificate of the oath shall be annexed to
the certificate of nomination
SEC. ). Nominations for candidates for
any office to be fillel by the voters of the
state at large may also be made by nomi-
nation papers, signed in the aggregate for
each ca n tidate by II Dt less than five hun
dred (5O0J qualified voters of the state.
Nominations ofcandidates for offices to be
filled by the electors OF a county district or
other division less than Il state, may be
made by nomination papers, signed in the
aggregate for each candidate by not less
than twenty-five (2j) qualified voters OF
such county, district or division. Nomina-
lions of candidates for offices to be filled by
the electors of city, town, precinct or
ward may be made by nomination papers
signed in the aggregate for each candidate
by not less than ten 90 qualified voters of
such city, town, preclncs or ward; provid-
ed, that the name OF am candidate, whose
name may appear in an other place upon
the ballot, shall not he SO added by petition
for the same office. Each ele tor signing
certificate shall add to his signature hi;
place of business ana DO 3to!fice address.
SEC. 6. All certitica, of nomination or
nomination papers, shall, besides contain
ing the names of candidates, specify as to
each:
/. The office to which he is nominated
2. The party or political principle which
he represents, expressed in not more than
five (5) words.
3. His place of residence with street and
number thereof if any.
In the case of electors for President aud
Nice-President of the United States, the
names of the candidates for President aud
Aice-President may be added to the party
or political appellation.
Sec. z. Certificates of nomination, and
nomination papers for the nomination of
candidates for offices to be filed by the
electors of the entire state, or any division
or district greater than county, shall be
filed with the secretary o. state not more
than sixty days COZ and not less than thir-
ty 800 days before the day fixed by law for
the election for which the can lidates are
nominated. All other certificates for the
nomination of candidates shall be filed
with the county auditor of the respective
counties, not more than sixty O0) days and
not less than twenty COZ days previous to
the day of such election; provided that
certificates of nomination and nomination
papers for the nomination of candidates for
the offices in cities an Incorporated towns
shall be filed with the clerks or recorder of
the cities or incorporated towns not more
than forty (40) days and not less than ten
QO) days previous to such election.
SEE. s. Any person whose name has
been presented as a candidate may cause
his name to be withdrawn from nomina-
him and acknowledged before an officer
qualified to take acknowledgements of
deeds, and filed whistle secretary of state
not less than fifteen 15) days, or with
the proper auditor, clerk or recorder not less
than eight (S) days previous to the day of
election, and no name 50 withdrawn shall
be printed upon the ballots All certificates
of nomination and nomination papers,
when filed, shall he open, under the proper
regulation, to public inspection; and the
secretary of state and the several county
auditors, clerks and recorders having
charge Of domination papers shall preserve
the same in their respective offices for not
less than six months after the election
SEC. o. In case candidate who has been
duly nominated, under the provisions of
this act, die before election day or decline
the nomination as in this act provided, or
should any certificate of nomination be
held insufficient or imperative by the Off
Ger with whom they may be filed, the
vacancy or vacancies thus occasioned may
be filed by the political party or other per.
sons making the original nominations, or,
if the time is insufficient therefor, then the
vacancy may be filed, if the nomination
was by convention, primary or caucus in
such manner as the convention, primary
or caucus had previously provided, or in
case of no such previous provisions, then by
a regularly elected or appointed executive
or central committee, representing the po-
litical parry or persons holding such con-
yenticn primary meeting or caucus. Tho
certificates of nominations made to supply
such vacancy, shall state in addition to the
facts hereinbefore required by this act the
name of the original nominee, the date of
his death or declination of nomination, or
the fact that the former nomination has
been held insufficient or imperative and
the measures taken in accordance with the
above requirements for filling vacancy,
and it shall be signed and sworn to by the
presiding officer and secretary of the con-
vention, primary or caucus, or by the chair
man and secretary of the duly authorized
committee as the case may be.
SEC. TO- The certificates of nomination
and nomination papers being so fled and
being in apparent conformity with the pro-
visions of this act, shall be deemed to be
valid, unless obie ,tion thereto is duly made
in writing. Such objections or other ques-
tions arising in relation thereto in the case
of nomination of state officers or officers to
be elected by the voters OF a division less
than the state and greater than a county,