Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-08-20
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
FULL TEXT Of NEvADAY NEW
ELECTION LAW.
Voters should Read and study Its
Provisions.


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 oil
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 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, conn
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 assemblage OF delegates rep
resenting a 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. 3. 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 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 oil
their knowledge and belief, and a 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 . conven.
ton in the following manner: A certificate
Of nomination containing the name OF the
candidate to be nominated, with the other
information required to be given in the Ger.
ti61ate 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
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