Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-10-29

FULL TEXT Of NEVADA'S NEW
ELECTION LAW.
Voters should Read and study Ats
Provisions.
N ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.

| THE SECRECH OF ldE bALLOl.
lApproved March 10, 1891
| The People Of the State OF Nevada, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
SECTION I. All ballots cast in elections
for public officers within this State shall he
printed and distributed at public expense, as
| hereinafter provided. The printing Of gen.
eral tickets and cards of instruction for the
electors of each county, and the delivery OF
the same to the election officers, as provided
| 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 instruction shall be q charge upon
the city, town or district in which said tick
| cts and cards are to be used. the payment OF
| which shall be provided for in the same
manner as the payment of other city, coun-
| ty or district expenses.
SEC. 2. 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-
venton 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.
CT the entire vote cast in the State, county,
district or other political division, for which
the nomination is made.
SEC. Z. 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 sigasSMes
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 g conven-
ton in the following manner: A certificat'
OF nomination containing the name Of the
candidate to be nominated, with the other
information required to be given in the GER
tiheate provided for in section three o. 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 diyis-
ion 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 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 a
certificate of such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate Of nomination shall have
the same effect as a certificate Of nomina-
ton made by party convention.
SEC. s. 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
HC oHCeS shall Oe Hleu Win INC Nie'ks vi
the respective counties wherein the officers
are to be voted for, and where district en-
braces more than one county, such certificate
shall be filed with the Clerk OF each of said
counties.
SEC. E. No certificate of nomination shall
| contain the name of more than one candi-
date for each Office to be filled. No person
shall join in nominating, under the provis-
ions Of section 4 Of this Act, more than one
nominee for each Office to be filed, and no
person who has voted in convention, eth
er in person or by proxy, for or against any
candidate for any office, shall join in nomi-
mating, in any manner, any other nominee
for that Office, and no person shall accept a
nomination to more than one office.
| SEC. 7. Certificates Of nomination re-
quired to be filed with the Secretary Of State
shall be filed not more than sixty days nor
less than forty days before the day OF cleo
ton, when the nomination is made by con-
vention, and not more than sixty days nor
less than thirty days before the day OF cleo
ton, when the nomination is made under
the provisions Of section four Of this Act.
Certificates Of nomination required TO be
filed with the County Clerks shall be filed
not more than fifty days nor less than thirty
days before the day of election, when the