Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1893-12-23
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
Text of Nevada's New
Election Law.
voTlss SHOULD READ AND sTaof IT'S
PROVISIONS.
Fair aud Clean Eiections in she
Failure ~ h Low IL Observed.
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
TIE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.

Approved March 10, 1891.
The People OF the State OF Nevsds, rep
resepted in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
SECTION 1. All ballots cast 10 elections
or public officers within this State shall
ne printed and distributed at public ex-
pense, as hereinafter provided. Ihe
printing Of general tickets and cards oil
instruction for the electors OF each county,
and the delivery OF the same TO the cleo
ton officers. as provided for in this ACT.
shall be q county charge, the payment oil
which shall be provided for in the same
manner a. the payment OF other oounsy
expenses, and in case OF separate eiectons
for CITY, town or district officers, the print
ing and delivery OF tickets and cards OF
instruction shall be charged upon the city,
town or district in which said tickets M
cards are to be used, the payment OF
which shall be provided for in the same
manner as the pay 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, to be filed by election within me
State. A ton within the meaning
of this ACT is an organized Assem- oisge OF
delegates representing q political party
which, al 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 polit-
iosl division, for which the nomination 10
made.
SEC. 8. All nominations made by such
convention shall be certified as follows:
The certificate OF nomination, which must
bs in writing, shall contain the name OF
each person nominated, bis residence and
Office for which he is nominated, and shall
designate the party or principle which
such convention represents. IL shall Dc
signed By the Chairman and Secretary OF
suoh 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 in such certificate are
true to the beat OF their knowledge and
belief, and q 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 u
onvention in the 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
political division for which candidates are
to be presented. equal in number to at
least three per cent OF the entire vote cast
at the last preceding election in the State,
district or political division for which the
nomination il to be made; provided, that
such certificate shall not be valid unless
signed by three voters. Said signatures
need not all be appended to one paper, but
each signer 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
bsst OF his knowledge and belief, and a Ger
~tiicate OF such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate OF nomination shall have
the same effect as a certificate OF nomins-
sion made by a 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-
ficates OF nomination of candidates for all
other public off oes shall be filed with the
clerks OF tbs respective counties wherein
the officers are TO be voted for, aud where
q district embraces more than one county,
suoh certificates shall be filed with the
CLERK Of each of said counties.
SEQ. 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 filed. aud no person who has voted in
. convention, either in person or by proxy,
for or against q candidate for any office,
katl f4s. IL nA.nf2af2n 10 wnaa.A. /
any other nominee for that office, and no
person shall accept 9 nomination to more
than one office.
SEC. z. Certificates OF nomination re-
quired to be filed with the Secretary OF
State shall not be filed more than sixty
dsys moi less than forty days before the
day OF election when the nomination ia
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 Q 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. Is provided
in section four Of this Act. The Chair |
mar and Secretary of the convention. or
OF such committee, or such petitioners
shall make and file with the proper officer
Q 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 il
Ia TO be substituted, and such further infor-
nation az IL required to be given in an
original certificate OF nomin alton. When
such certificate is filed, the officer with
whom ID 10 filed shall su destitute the name OF
the person therein for the ori ,inal nomi.
nee, by printing, il practicable, or by writ
ing the name Of the person thus substi-
tuted.
SEC. s. Not 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 is nomin-
sted, az specified in the certificate OF
nomination filed with him.
SEC. 0. Not less than ten days before
fces, the County Clerk shall cause to be
published all the nominations certified to
or hled with him. Said nominations shall
be published in q newspaper printed with
10 the county. When no newspaper is
printed within the county. the publication
shall be made by posting 3 copy OF the
ballot in . 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
log 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 3 proposed Constitution,
constitutional amendment or other ques-
ton is to be submitted for popular vote.
sba Secretary OF State shall certify the
same 10 the several County Clerks, and said
Oaunty Clerks shall publish the same as
rrovided for In section Q Of this Act.
sEc. II. II shall be the duty OF the
connty CLERK TO provide printed ballots
arsrx a~iaation for public officers. in