The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-09-29
Our New Election Law
An Act Relating to Elections and to
More Fully Secure the Secrecy
of the Ballot.
APPROVED MARCH 10, 1891.

State, shall be printed and distributed
at public expense, as hereinafter pro-
vided. The printing of general tickets
and cards of instruction for the electors |
of each county, and the delivery of the |
same to the election officers, as provid- |
ed for in this Act, shall be county |
charge. the payment of which shall be
provided for in the same manner as the
payment of other county expenses, and
in case of separate elections for city,
town or district officers, the printing
and delivery of tickets and cards OF in
struction shall be charge upon the
city, town OF 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. 2. Any convention, as herein
after defined, held for the purpose of
making nominations for public Office
and also electors to the number herein
after specified, may nominate candi-
dates for public offices, to be filled by
election within the State. A conven-
ton within the meaning of this Act is
an organized assemblage of delegates
representing political party, which, at
the last election, before the holding of
such convention, polled at least three
per cent. of the entire vote of the State,
county, district or other political divis-
ion, for which the nomination is.made.
Sec. 8. ALI nominations made by
any such convention shall be certified
as follows: The certificate of nomina-
ton, which must be in writing, shall
| contain the name of each person nomi-
mated, his residence and the Office for
| which he is nominated, and shall desig-
nate the party or principle which such
| convention represents. 1t shall be
signed by the Chairman and Secretary
| of such convention, 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 Of their
knowledge and belief, and certificate
| of the said oath shall be annexed to said
| certificate of nomination.
| Sec. A. A candidate for public office
may be nominated otherwise than by o
convention in the manner following: A
certificate of nomination containing the
name OF the candidate to be nominated,
with the other information required to be
given in the certificate 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 election in the
State, district or political division fol
which the nomination is to be made
provided, that such certificate shall moi
be valid unless signed by three voters
Said signatures need not all be append
ed to one paper, but each signer shall
add to his signature his place of resi-
dence. One of the signers of each sucl
certificate shall swear that the state
ments therein made are true to the bes
of his knowledge end belief, and cert
ficate of such oath shall be annexed
, Such certificate of nomination shal
have the same effect rs certificate O
nomination made by party convention
Sec. S. Certificates of nomination o
candidates for offices to be voted for b,
the electors of the entire State, shall b
filed with the Secretary of State. Ger
: tificates of nomination of candidates 70
all other public offices shall be file
with the Clerks of the respective coun
ties wherein the officers are to be vote
for, and where district embraces MOI
than one county, such certificate sha
be filed with the Clerk OF each of sal
counties.
Sec. 6. No certificate of nominate
shall contain the name of more than OF
: candidate for each Office to be filed \
person shall join in nominating, und
the provisions of section four of tn
;. Act, more than one nominee for eat
office to be filled. and no perse
who has voted in convention, either
IT person or by proxy, for or againt ca
didate for any Office, shall join in non
mating, in any manner, any other nom
- nee for that Office, and no person sh,
accept q nomination to more than o.
n Office.
ID Sec. z. Certificates of nomination /
quired to be filed with the Secretary
State shall be filed not more than sir
days nor less than forty days before t
day of election when the nomination
made by convention, and not mt
= than sixty days nor less than thirty do
before the day of election when
| -, 10 h.,
ions of section four Of this Act. Cel
ficates of nomination required to be Fl
with the County Clerks shall be e
10 not more than fifty days and not |
than thirty days before the day Of Gle
ion, when the nomination is made b
convention and not more than fifty d
nor less than twenty days before the {
of election, when the nomination
made under the provisions Of sect
four of this Act. Should a vacancy
cur from any cause In the list
nominees for any Office, such vacal
III may be filed at any time before the I
y Of election by the convention, or b
committee to which the convention
delegated the power to fill vacancies
by petitions, as provided in section I
\ OF this Act. The Chairman and Sec
y tary Of the convention, or Of such co
a mittee. or such petitioners. shall m
and file with the proper officer cert
cate, setting forth the name Of the per
= nominated to fill such vacancy, the OF
81 for which he is nominated, the nam,
I'll the person for whom the new nomi
II is 10 be substituted, and such further
n formation as is required to be giver
I an original certificate of nominate
When such certificate is filed, the off
with whom it is filed shall substitute
name of the person therein for the OF
nal nominee, by printing, If practica
or bv writing the name of the per