Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1893-05-13
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
Text of Nevada's New
Election Law.
yortss SHOULD READ AND sraof ''s
PROVISIONS.
Fair and Clean Elections in 'he
ru,urc ~ n Law IL observed

THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.
Approved Marohl3 8, 1884,
The People Of the State OF Nevada rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
aos as follows:
SECTION 1. All ballots cast 10 eiections
for public officers within this state snsh
be printed and distributed 81 pupiio sA-
pense, as hereinafter provided. Ing
printing OF general tickets aud csrds OF
instruction for the electors Of each county,
and the delivery OF the same to the cleo
,ioo officers, as provided for in this Act.
sball be a county charge. the payment oil
which sbsll be provided for in the same
mapner az 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 oil
instruction shall be charged upon the city,
town or district in which said tickets sna
cards are to be used, the payment Oh
which shall be provided for In the same
manner as the payment OF other CITY,
county or district expenses.
sro q. Any convention, as hereinafter
defined. held for the purpose Of making
nominations for public office, and also
electors to the number hereinafter speci-
fad. may nominate candidates for pubic
offices, 10 be filed by election within the
State. A convention within tho meaning
of this Act is an organized Assem- blage OF
delegates representing 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 tho State, county, district or other polit-
jcal division, for which tho nomination ID
made.
SEC. 3. All nominations made BY 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
Office for which he is nominated, and shall
designate tho party or principle which
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, aud make oath before an officer
authorized to administer the same, that
the matters stated in such certificate are
true to tho best OF their knowledge and
belief, and a 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 a
onvention in tho manner following: A
ertifcate 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
ton three Of this Act, shall be signed by
electors residing within the district or
p~olitical division for which candidates are
to be presented, equal in number to at
least throe per cent Of tho entire vote cast
at the last preceding election in the State,
district or political division for which the
nomination is to be made; provided, that
auoh certificate shall not be valid unless
sign ed 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
boat OF his knowledge aud belief, and a GER
tiicate OF such oath shall BIO annexed.
Such certificate OF nomination shall have
tho same effect as a certificate of nomina
ton made by a party convention.
SEQ. 8. 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. Oerti-
ficates 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, and where
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 filled. No
person shall Join in nominating. unde
the provision OF Section 4 Of this Act,
more than one nominee for each Office to
be filed. aud no person who has voted In
aconvention, either in person or by proxy,
for or against q candidate for any office,
shall join In nominating. in any name
any other nominee for that office. and no
person shall accept q nomination to more
than one office.
SEC. Z. Certificates OF nomination re-
qnired to be filed with the Secretary OF
State shall not be filed more b sixty
days nor less than forty days before the
day OF election when the nomination is
made by O convention, and not more than
sixty days nor less than thirty days before
the day OF election when the nomination
Ia made under the provisions Of section
four OF this Act. Should Q vacancy occur
from any cause in the list Of nominees for
any Office, such vacancy may be filled at any
time befose the day OF election by the con-
v~ention, or by a 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 and 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 he is nominated. the name
of the person for whom the new nominee ia
Ia to be substituted, and such further infor-
nation as is required to be given in an
original certificate OF nomination. When
suoh certificate is filed, the officer with
whom it ia flied shall substitu to 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.
SEC. 8. Not less than twenty-five days
before al 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 Is nomin-
ated, as specified in the certificate Of
nomination filed with him.
SEC. 0. Not less than ten days before
an election to fill any public Office or Of
foes, tho County Clerk shall oause to 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 is
printed within the county. the publication
shall be made By posting q copy Of the
ballot in q 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
issue OF such paper before election day.
SEC. 10. When a proposed Constitution,
constitutional amendment or other ques-
tion ia TO be submitted for popular vote.
the Secretary OF State shall certify the
same to the several County Clerks, and said
County Clerks shall publish the same as
provided for in section . OF this Act.
SEC. IL. II shall be the duty of the J