Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-04-22
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
FUEL TENT OF NEVADA's NEW
ELECTION LAW.
Voters should Read and study Ats
Provisions.

sepIed III Senate and Assembly, do enac
as follows:
| SECTION /. All ballots cast in election.
for public officers within this State shall b,
printed and distributed at public expense, a.
hereinafter provided. The printing Of gen
eral tickets and cards Of instruction for the
| electors Of each county, and the delivery o
the same 10 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 Separa {
elections for city, town or district officers
the printing and delivery Of tickets and
cards of instruction shall b.. charge upon
the city, town or district in which said tick.
cts and cards are to be used. the payment o.
which shall be provided for in the same
manner as the payment of other city, coun-
ly or district expenses.
SEC 2. Any convention, as hereinafter
detped, 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-
venton within the meaning of this Act is
an organized assembage of delegates rep
resenting political party, which. at the
last election, before the holding Of such
convention. polled at least three per cent
Ct 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
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Office for which be 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 10 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 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 a conven-
ton in the following manner: A certincate
OF nomination containing the name OF the
candidate to be nominated, with the othcI
Information required TO We given in the CIR.
tihSate provided for in section three of this
Act, shall be signed by electors residing
within the district or political division tOr
which candidates are to be presented, equal
| in number to at least three per cent oil the
entire vote cast at the last preceding cleo
ton IN the State, district or political divi,-
ion for which the nomination is 10 be male
provided, that such cerlihcate shall not be
valid unless signed by !hrre voters. Said
signatures need not ali be appended to one
paper, but each Signer shall add 10 his sig
nature 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 and belief, and a
certificate of such oath shall be annexed
Such certificate Of nomination shall have
the same effect as a certificate OF nomna-
lion made by party convention.
SEC & Certificates OF nomination OF
candidates for offices 10 be voted for by the
electors Of the entire State, snail he filed
with the Secretary OF Safe Certificates OF
nomination OF candidates for all o!her pub
ic Offices shall be filed with the Clerks o.
the respective counties wherein The olhce's
are to be voted for, and where district en-
b, aces mos than one county, such certificate
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 candl-
date Tor each Office 10 be hlled. No person
shall Join in nominating, under the provis-
ions Of ction 4 Of this Act, more than one
nominee for each Office 10 be filled, and 10
person who has voted in convention, eth
er in person or by proxy, for or against any
Candidate for any office, shall join in nomi-
naiing, in any manner, any other nominee
FOR that office, and no person shall accept a
nomination 10 more Than one Office.
SEC. T. Certificates OF nomination re-
quired 10 be filed with The Secretary OF State
shall be filed not more than sixty days nor
less than forty days before the day OF cleo
ton, when the nomination is made by con-
venlion, and not more than sixty days nor
less than thirty days before the day OF cleo
ton, when the nomination is made under
the provisions of section four OF this Act.
Certificates Of nomination required 10 be
filed wuh The County Clerks shall be filed
not more than Gfy 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 OF
occur, from any cause, in the list Of nomi-
nees for any office, such vacancy may be
filled at any lime before the day of election
by The convention, or by a commitlee TO
which the convention has delegated the
power 10 fill such vanancies, OF by petition
ers, as provided in section four OF this Aci.
Ihe hartman and Secretary Of the conven-
ton or OF such committee, or such petition
e,s, shall make, and hle with the prop,
officer, cerlihcate, setting forth The name
Of the person nominated TO I'LL such vacancy,
the Office for which he is nominated, the
name OF the person for whom the new nomi-
nee is to be substituted, and such further
information as is required 10 be given in an
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, il practicable, OF by wit
ing he name of The person then substituted
SEC. 8. Not less than twenty-five days
before an election 10 fill any public Office
the Secretary OF State shall certify TO the
County Clelk OF each county within the
State the name of each person, and the
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