Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-08-20
NOMINATIONS.
The Election Laws of Ari-
 ZOna.
The Sections That Control Party Nominatious.-How and When Nominations May be
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Be It enacted by tue Le6islotiUe
 Assembly of tue Territory Of
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 SECTION l. The registration of voters, the location of voting precincts, and all requisites for the proper conduct of elections shall be as provided for by ex- isting laws, except SO far as the same may be modified by the requirements of thIs Act.
 SEC. 2. All ballots cast in elections for public offices within the Territory shall be printed and distributed at pub lie expense. The printing of ballots and cards of instructions for the voters in each county. and the delivery of the game to the clerks and election officers, as hereinafter provided. shall be 6 county charge, the payment of which shall be provided for In the same man her IS the payment Of other county ex- penses, but the expense of printing and deliveIiug the ballots and cards of in- structions to be used in local elections shall be charge upon the city, town or village in which such local election shall be held.
 SEC. 3. Candidates for public office to be filed by elections within this Terri tory may be nominated in the following manner:
 Every political party which at the last election for Territorial or county officers polled at least one per cent. of the entire vote cast in the Territory or county may, at any conventio of or ganlZsd delegates or voters representing such political party, make nominations to public ofiice; and such convention may also authorizs a committee ap- DO nted by such convention to make nominations to public office by resolu- tions passed 5y such convention.
 SEC. f. Ali nominations made by such convention or committee shall be certified as follows: The certitcsts
 
 the name of the office for which each perso on is nominated, his name and place Of residence; and shall designate i ] not mora than three words, the party which such convention or committee represent. It shall be signed by the presiding ffi cer and the secretary of such convention or committee, who shall add the sigEa- lures, theIr places of residence and make oath to the truth of the same be- fore an officer qualified 10 administer an oath, and such officer shall make a cer- tificate that such oath was duly admin istered, which certificate sEall be at tached to such certificate of nomIna- tiOn, when the nomination is made by committee the certificate of nominations shall contain a copy of the resolutIOns authorizing the committee to make such nominations.
 SEC. ,. Certificates of nomination of candidates for offices to be filled by the voters of the entire Territory Of any division larger than county, shall be filed with the secretary of the Territory For officers to be filled by the voters of an entire county such certificate shall be filed in the board of supervisors office of the county in which such an election
 
 town offices, such certificate shall be filed with the recorder or clerk of the city, village or town in which such election Is to be held.
 SEC 6. Candidates for public office may be nominated otherwise than by cOnv9nti-n n or c, mmi tee, in the manner following: X certificate of nomination n containing tce mama Of a candidate for bo offfca to ha filed such infOrmati' n as is requir d to be given in rtitica;es provided for in See tiOn four of this Act (except that said certifca'e shall designate, in not more than three words. instead of he party the pOliti al or other name WI ich the s gners shall seIectl. shall be signed by v0 CTS resid ng within tte political diyi- sion in and for which the officer or officers, are to be elected to the numt CT of at least one per centum of the entire vote cast a the last proceed ng election, in such political division for which such nomination is made. The signatures 70 the certificate of nominat on need not all be appended to ooe paper Earh voter signing such certihca'e shall add his place of residence. Such certificate when so executed may be filed as pro- vided for in Section five of ths Act. in the same manner and with the same effect, as a certificate of nOminat on made by party convention or con- mi'tee.
 SEC. T. No certificate of nOmination shall contain the names of more candi- l dates for any office than there ara per sons 10 be elected to such office and no person shall sign more than one certifi- | cate of nomination for any office
 SEC. s. The Secretary of the Terri l tory, the Board of Supervisors and the ! Recorder or C ty Clerk of any city. vii age | or town hereinbefOTe named. shall pre- serve in their respective offices all cer- ! tificates of nomination filed therein. | under the provisions of this Act All | such certificates shall be open to public | inspection, the same as other public | documents.
 SEC. Certificates of nOmnation to | bs filed with the Secretary of the Ter | ritOry and the County Board of Super | visO:s, shall be filed no more than fifty l nor less than twenty days before ihe day | fixed by law for the election of the per sons nominated. The certificate of nom ination to he filed with the city, village or town recorders or clerks shall be fed not more than twenty nor less than ten days befo'e the day fixed by law for the e!ect on of Ihe persons nominated.
 SEC 10. The Secretary of the Terri tory upon expiration of the time within which such cert ficates of nomination may be filed with him shall immediately