Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-04-30
AUSTRALIAN BiLLOT.
Full Text Of Nevada's New
Election Law.
yoItas SHOULD READ AND sTaor ITS
PROVISIONS.
Fair aud Clean Injections In the
r,sure ~ the Law h observed.

AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
TIE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.
Approved March IS, 1884,
The People Of the State Of Nevada rep
resented In Senate and Assembly. do en-
act % follows:
Section 1. All ballots cast In elections
for public officers within this State shall
be printed and distributed at public ex-
pense, as hereinafter provided. Ihe
printing OF general tickets and cards oil
instruction for the electors OF each county
and the delivery OF the same to the cleo
ton officers, as provided for In this Act,
shall be Q county charge, the payment oil
which shall be provided for In the same
manner a. the payment Of other county
expenses and In case of separate elections
for city, town or district officers, the print
ing and delivery OF tickets and cards Of
instruction shall be charged upon the city,
town or 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 pay ment OF other city'
county or district expenses.
SEC. 2. Any convention, as hereinafter
defined, held for the purpose OF making
nominations for public office, aud also
electors 70 the number hereinafter speci'
fed, may nominate candidates for public
Offices, 10 be filed by election within The
State. A convention within the meaning
of this Act Is an organized assemblsge oil
delegates representing q political party,
which, at the last election. before the
holding OF such convention, polled a.
least three per cent OF the entire vote cast
in the State, county, district or other polit-
ical division, for which the nomination Is
made.
SEC. 3. All nominations made by such
convention shall be certified IS follows:
The certificate Of nomination, which must
be in writing, shall contain the name Of.
each person nominated, his residence and
office for which he Is nominated, and shall
designate the party or principle which
such convention represents. IL be
signed by the Chairman and SecrefHa of
such convention, who shall add to their
signatures their respective places OF resi-
dence, and make oath before an officer
authorized 10 administer the same, that
the matters stated in such certificate are
true 10 the best OF their knowledge and
belief. and o certificate Of the said oath
shall be annexed 10 said certificate OF
nomination.
SEC. A. A candidate for public office
may be nominated otherwise b BY u
convention In the AMI following: A
certificate OF nomination containing the
name OF the candidate 10 be nominated,
with the other information required TO be
given in the certificate provided for In sec
ton three OF this Act, shall be signed by
electors residing within the district or
political division for which candidates are
10 be presented, equal 10 number 20 at
least three per cent Of the entire vote cast
al the last preceding election in the State,
district or political division for which the
nomination ia 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 siguer shall add TO his signature his
place Of residence. One OF the signers OF
each such certificate shall swear that the
ststements therein made are true TO the
bSst ofhis knowledge and belief, and a GER
tiicate Of such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate OF nomination shall have
the same effect as q certificate OF pomina
ton made by q party convention.
SEQ. 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. Certi-
icates OF nomination Of candidates for all
other public offices shall be filed with the
Clerks OF the respective counties wherein
the officers are TO be voted for, aud where
a district embraces more than mi county,
such certificates shall be filed with the
Clerk Of each of said counties.
SEC. g.. No certificate OF nomination
shall contain the name OF more than one
candidate for each Office to be filled. No
person shall Join in nominating. under
the provision OF Section 4 OF this Act,
more than one nominee for each office to
be filled, aud no person who has voted 10
q convention, either in person or by proxy,
for o. against q candidate for any Office,
shall Join In nominating. in any manner
any other nominee for that Office, and no
person shall accept Q nomination 70 more
than one office.
SEQ. z. Certificates OF nomination re.
quired to be filed with the Secretary o.
State shall not be filed moro than Sixty
days nor less than forty days before TIT
day OF election when the nomination II
made by q convention, and not more thar
sixty days nor less than thirty days before
the day Of election when the nomination
is made under the provisions OF section
four of this Act. should Q vacancy occur
from any cause In the list Of nominees foi
any office, such vacancy may be filled at am
time before the day OF election by the con
v~ention, or by q committee to which tb'
convention has delegated the power Il
fill vacancies, or by petitions, as provided
in section four OF this Act. The Chair
man and Secretary of the convention, OF
OF such committee. or such petitioner,
shall make and file with the proper office
q certificate, setting forth the name OF tn
person nominated to fill such vacancy, III
ofice for which lie IL nominated. the nam
of the person for whom the new nominee i
Ia TO be substituted, and such further infor
nation as ia required to be given in al
original certificate OF nomination. WheI
such certificate is flied, the officer will
whom 1t is filed shall So bstitute the name o
the person therein for the original nomi
nee. by printing, il practicable. or by writ
ing the name OF the person thus substi
tuted.
SEC. 8. Not less than twenty-five day
before an election 10 fill any public Office
the Secretary OF State shall certify to tn,
County Clerk OF each county within thu
State the name of each person, and th,
name OF the Office for which he is nomin
ated, as specified in the certificate ol
nomination filed with him.
SEC. 8. Not less than ten days before
An election to ill any public Office or Of.
fees. the County CLERK shall cause 10 be
published all the nominations certified to
or filed with him. Said nominations shall
be published In q newspaper printed with
in the county. When no newspaper 10
printed within the county. the publication
shall be made by posting . copy OF the
ballot In . public place In each election
precinct within the county. one Of which
copies shall be posted at the courthouse
door. When publication Is made by print
ing In newspapers. at least two publications
by such newspapers shall be required, one
Of which shall appear In the last regular
OF such paper before election day.
SEC. 10. When a proposed Constitution.
constitutional amendment or other ques-
IioR 10 to be submitted for popular vote.