Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1893-07-01
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
Text of Mevada's New
Election Law.
VOTERS SHOULD READ AND Study I1s
PROVISIONS.
Fair. aud Clean Elections La 'he
Fusure if the . Is Observed.

THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.
tApproved March Is. 1871
The People Of the State Of Nevada. rep
resented In Senate and Assembly, do en-
act 90 follows:
SECTION 1. Ali ballots cast 10 elections
for pnblio officers within this State shall
be printed and distributed at public ex-
pense. ss hereinafter provided. The
printing OF general tickets and CARDS OF
instruction for the electors OF each county,
and the delivery OF the same TO the eiec-
zion officers, as provided for In this Act.
shall be . county charge. the payment OF
which shall be provided for In the same
hammer as the payment OF other county
expenses, and In case Of separate elections
for oity, town or district officers. the print
ing and delivery OF tickets and cards oil
instruction shall be charged upon the city,
town or district In which said tickets and
cards are 10 be used, the payment OF
which shall be provided for In the same
manner Is the pay ment OF other CITY,
county or district expenses.
SEQ. q. Any convention, as hereinafter
defined, held for the purpose Of making
nominations for public Office, and also
electors 10 the number hereinafter speci-
fed. may nominate candidates for public
Offices, 10 be filled by election within the
State, A convention within the meaning
of this Act Ia an organized assemblsge OF
delegates representing q political party,
which, at the last election, before the
holding Of such convention, polled ct
least three Der cent OF the entire vote cast
in the state, county, district or other polit-
ical division, for which the nomination 10
made.
SEQ. 8. All nominations made BY such
convention shall be certified as follows:
The certificate OF nomination, which must
be in writing, shall contain the name oil
each person nominated, his residence and
oGice for which he is nominated. and shall
designate the party or principle WHOM
such convention represents. IL shall be
signed by the Chairman and Secretary OF
such convention, who shall add to their
signatures their respective places OF resi-
dence, and make oath before an officer
authorized TO administer the same. that
the matters stated 10 such certificate are
true to the best OF their knowledge and
belief. aud q certificate OF the said oath
shall be annexed TO said certificate OF
nomination.
SEC. 4. A candidate for public ofics
may be nominated otherwise than by q
onvention in the mann following: A
erufcate Of nomination containing the
name OF the candidate TO be nominated,
with the other information required TO be
given In the certificate provided for In Sec
tiou three OF 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
as the last proceeding election in the State,
district or political division for which the
nomination is to be made; provided. that
such certificate shall not be valid unless
signe ID 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
statements therein made are true to the
best Of his knowledge aud belief. n d GER
tiicste Of such oath shall be annexed.
Suoh certificate OF nomination shall have
the same effect as q certificate of nomina-
ton made by Q party convention.
SEC. 5. 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-
fcstes OF nomination OF candidates for all
other public Offices shall be filed with tho
Clerks OF the respective counties wherein
the officers are 10 be voted for, aud where
Q district embraces more than one county,
such certificates shall be filed with the
CLERK Of each of said counties.
SEC. 6. No certificate OF nomination
shall contain the name OF more than one
candidate for each Office to be filed. 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. and no person who has voted In
aco~nvention, either in person or by proxy,
for or 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 10 more
than one ofice.
SEQ z. Certificates OF nomination re-
quired to be filed with the Secretary Of
State shall not be filed more than sixty
days nor less than forty days before the
day OF election when the nomination is
made by Q convention, and not more than
sixty days nor less than thirty days before
the day Of election when the nomination
IL made under the provisions OF section
four Of this Act. Should . vacancy occur
from any cause in the list Of nominees for
any office, such vacancy may be filled at any
time before the day Of election by the CON-
v~ention, or by q committee to which the
convention has delegated the power to
fill vacancies, or By petitions, as provided
In section four OF this Act. The Chair
man aud Secretary Of the convention, or
OF such committee, or such petitioners
shall make and file with the proper officer
certificate. setting forth the name Of the
person nominated TO fill such vacancy, the
office for which lie is nominated, the name
OF the person for whom the new nominee il
is TO be substituted, and such further infor.
nation as is required to be given in an
original certificate OF nomination. When
such certificate Ia filed, the officer with
whom II is filed shall substitute the name Of
the person therein for the original nomi
nee. by printing, il practicable, or by writ
ing the name OF the person thus substi-
tuted.
SEQ. 8. MOI less than twenty-five days
before an election to fill any public office
the Secretary OF State shall certify TO the
County Clerk Of each county within the
State the name OF each person. and the
name OF the Office for which he Ia nomin.
ated, 90 specified in the certificate OF
nomination filed with him.
SEC. o. Not less than ten days before |
an election to fill any public Office or Of |
fees. the County Clerk shall cause to be
published ell the nominations certified to
or died with him. Said nominations shall |
be published in 9 newspaper printed with
IN the county. When no newspaper is
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 al the courthouse
door. When publication ia 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
Issue Of such paper before election day.
SEC. 10. whena proposed Constitution, |
constitutional amendment or other ques-
tion is TO be submitted for popular vote, |
che Secretary OF State shall certify the
same 70 the several County Clerks. and said
County CLERKS shall publish the same a.
provided for in section Q Of this Act.