Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-05-13
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
FULL TEXT OF NEVADA'S NEW
ELECTION LAW.
Voters should Read and study Its
Provisions.

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| THE SECRECY OF HE BALLOT.
| Improved March -, 1871
/ The People OF The State OF Nevada, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
| as follows:
! SECTION +. 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 Of
! 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 Innting 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, coun-
ly 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-
venton within the meaning of this Act is
an organized assembIage 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
person nominated, his residence and the
office for which he is nominated, and shall
designate the parry or principle which such
convention represents. 1t shall be signed
by the Chairman and Secretary Of such con-
ventioD, 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 OF
their knowledge and belief, and 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 a conven-
ton in the following manner: ceri6cat'
of nomination containing the name OF the
information required to We given in the Ger.
ti6cate 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. OF The
entire vote cast at the last preceding cleo
ton IN the State, district or political diviS-
ion for which the nomination is 10 be made;
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valid unless signed by three vo;ers. Said
signatures need not all be appended 10 one
paper, but each signer shall add to his sig
nature his place Of residence. One OF the
signers OF each such certificate shall swear
that The statements therein made true TO
the best Of his knowledge aud belief, and
certificate of such oath shall be annexed
Such certificate Of nomination shall have
The same effect as certificate OF nomlna-
lion made by party convention.
SEC. s Certificates OF nomination OF
candidates Tor Offices 10 be voted for by the
electors of the entire State, snail be filed
with The Secretary Of STATE Certificates OF
nomination of candidates for all other pub
lie offices shall be flied with the Clerks OF
the respective counties wherein the officers
are 10 be voted for, and where district en-
braces more than one county, such certificate
shall be filed with The Clerk OF each Of SAID
counties.
SEC 8. No certificate Of nomination shall
contain The name of more than one cand!-
date Tor each Office 10 be filled. No person
shall join in nominating, under the prov's-
ions of ction 4 Of this Act, more than one
nominee for each Office 10 BE- filled, and no
person who has voted in convention, eth
er in person or by proxy, for or against any
candidate for any office, shall join in noml-
mating, in any manner, any other nominee
for that Office, and 20 person shall accept
nomination TO more than one Office.
SEC 7. Certificates OF nomination re-
CURED 10 he hled 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-
vention and not more than sixty days nor
less Than thirty days before the day OF cleo
lion, when the nomination is made under
the provisions of section four OF this Act.
Certificates Of nomination required % be
| filed with the County Clerks shall be filed
not more Than hiiy days nor less than thirty
days before The day OF election, when he
nominauon IS made by convention, and
! not more than fifty days nor Hess than TWEEN
| " days before the day Of election, when the
NOMINATION is made under toe provisions OF
section -four Of his ACT. Should vacancy
occur, nom any cause, in the list Of nomi-
nees for any office, such vacancy may be
! il,d at any line before the day Of election
| by he convention, or by a committee to
which the Convention has delrgatrd the
| power 10 fill such vanancIes, OF by petition
ers, provided IN section four OF this Act.
| lhe harman and Secretary Of the conven-
ton or OF such Committee, or such petition
ers, shall make, and tile with the proper
officer, certificate, setting forth the name
Of the person dominated 10 all such vacancy,
| The office for which he is nominated. IN
name OF the person for whom he new nom-
nee is to b. substituted, and sSch further
information as is required 10 be gwen IN an
original certificate of nomination. When
such certificate is filed, the officer with
whom it is filed shall substitute the name
of the person therein for the original nom-
nee, by printing, if practicable, OF by writ
ing The name Of the person then substituted.
SEC. 8. Not less than twenty-five days
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