Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-04-16
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
FULL TENT Of NEvADA'S NEW
ELECTION LAW.
Voters ShOnid Resd and study Ats
Provisions.
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND To MORE FULLY SCI UKE
THE SECRECY OF HE BALLOT.

as follows:
SECTION /. All ballots cast in elections
for public Ulcers within this sale shall he
printed and dIsrbuted al public expense, a.
| hereinafter provided he printing OF gen
yral uck ct> and cards of instruction for the
| electors Of each county, and the delivery Of
the same 10 the ectlon 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 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-
vention within the meaning Of this Act is
an organized assembage of delegates rep
resentng political party, which. at the
last election, before the holding of such
convention, polled at least three per cent
Of the entire vote cast in the State, county,
district or other political division, for which
the nomination is made.
SEC. 4. 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 foI 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 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 10 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 conven-
ton in the following manner: A certihcat
OF nomination containing the name Of the
candidate 10 be nominated, with the other
information required TO be given in the Ger
tihcate provided for in section three of this
Act, shall be signed by electors residing
within the district or political division for
| which candidates are 10 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 dvis-
ion for which the nomination is 10 be made;
provided, that such certihcate shall not be
valid unless signed by three voters. Said
signatures need not ali be appended to one
paper, but each signcr shall add TO his sig
nature his place of residence. One oil the
signers OF each such certificate shall swear
that the statements therein made are true TO
the best oil his knowledge and belief, and a
certincate of such oath shall be annexed
Such certificate Of nomination shall have
| the same effect as certificate Of nomina-
ton made by party convention.
| SEC. S Certificates OF nomination OF
candidates for offices 10 be voted for by the
electors of the entire State, snail be filed
with the Secretary OF SAFE Ceulhcates Of
nomination of candidates for all other pub
lie offices shall be filed with the Clerks OF
the respective counties wherein the officers
are 10 be voted for and where district en-
braces more than one county, such certificate
shall be flied with the Clerk OF each Of said
counties.
SEC 6. No certificate Of nomination shall
contain he name of more than one candl-
date Tor each office to be filled No person
shall join in nominating, under the provls-
ions of .cIlon 4 Of this Act, more than one
nominee Tor each Office TO be filled, and no
person who has voted IN convention, eth
er IN person or by proxy, Tor or against any
ca dldae for any Office, shall join in noml-
uatlng, IN any manner, any other nominee
Tor thar Office, and no person shall accept a
nomination 10 more than one office.
SEC. 7. CeTuhcates OF nomination re-
qured 10 he filed with the Secretary Of State
shall be filed not more than sixty days MOI
less than iorty days before the day OF cleo
ton, when the nomination is made by con.
venlion, and not more than sixty days MOI
less than thirty days before the day OF elec.
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 hfty days nor less than thirty
days before the day OF election, when the
nomination is made by convention, and
not more than fifty days nor less than TWEEN
ty days before the day OF election, when the
nomination is made under the provisions o
|
occur, from any cause, in the list OF nomi.
nees for any office, such vacancy may be
filled at any time before the day Of election
by the convention, or by a committee tC
which the convention has delegated the
power to fill such vanancies, or by petition
ers, as provided in section four OF this Act
The Chairman and Secretary of the conven
ton or OF such committee, or such petition.
ers, shall make, and file with the proper
officer. certificate. setting forth the name
of the person nominated to ill such vacancy
the oihce for which he is nominated the
name OF the person for whom the new nomi
nee is 10 be substituted, and such further
information as is required to be gwen in ar
original certificate OF nomination. When
such certificate is filed, the officer with
whom il is filed shall substitute the name
Of the person therein for the original nomi.
nee, by printing, if practicable, OF by whit
ing he name of The person then substituted
SEC. 8. Not less than twenty-five day,
before an election 10 fill any public ofiic,
the Secretary Of State shall certify TO the
County Clelk OF each county within The
Stale the name Of each person. and The