Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1894-10-06
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
Full Text of Nevada's New
Election Law.
VOTERS SHOULD READ AND sTdpS us
PROVISIONS.
Fair and Clean Elections TN she
Future ~ the Law is observed
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.

Approved March IS, 1891.
The People Of the State of Nevada rep
resented in senase and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
SECTION l.. All ballots cast in elections
or public officers within this State shall
DC printed and distributed at public ex-
pence, as hereinafter provided. Inc
printing Of general tickets and cards OF
instruction for the electors OF eacn county
and the delivery Of the same to the cleo
tion officers, as provided Tor IN tnis Act,
shall be q county charge, tue paymen OF
which shall be provided Tor In the sans
manner as the payment OF other county
expenses. aud in case Of separate elections
for city, town or district officers. the print
ing and delivery of tickets aud cards oil
instruction shall be charged upon the CITY.
town or district in which said tickets and
cards are to be used, the payment OF
which shall be provided for in the same
manner as The payment OF other city,
county or district expenses.
SEC, q. Auy convention, as hereinafter
defined, held for the purpose Of making
nominations for public Office, also
electors &c the number hereinafter speei-
ied, may nominate candidates for public
offices, to be- filed by election wlshin tne
state. A convention within the meaning
of this Act is an organized assemblage OF
delegates representing a political party,
which. al the last election, before the
holding Of such convention, polled st
Iess, three per cent OF the entire vote cast
in the State, county, district or other polit-
ical division, for which the nomination IL
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 OF
each person nominated, his residence and
office for which he ia nominated, and shall
designate the 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, and make oath before an ofticer
authorized to administer the same, that
the matters stated in such certificate are
true to the beat Of their knowledge and
belief, and a 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
onvention in the manner following: A
ertiicate of nomination containing the
name OF the candidate to be nominated,
with the other information required 10 be
given in the certificate provided for in SEQ
sion three OF this Act, shall be signed "
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 proceeding election in The State,
district or political division for which the
nomination is to be made; provided, that
a,1b oorttHaofa ohafI moi ha valid nnleaa
signed by three voters. Said signatures
need not all be appended to one paper. but
each signer shall add 10 his signature his
place OF residence. One OF the siRners OF
each such certificate shall swear that the
statements therein made are true to the
best Of his knowledge and belief, and a GER
tifcate Of such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate OF nomination shall have
the same effect as a certificate of nomins-
ton made by o 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. Oerti-
fcases OF nomination Of candidates for all
other public offices shall be filed with the
Clerks OF the respective counties wherein
tha officers are TO be voted for, and 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 filled. 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
convention, 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 a nomination 10 more
than mi Office.
SEo.7. Certificates Of nomination re-
CURED to be fled 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, aud not more than
sixty days nor less than thirty days before
the day Of election when the nomination
is 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 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
a 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 is
is to be substituted, and such further infor-
nation as is required to be given in an
original certificate OF nomination. When
a-~l o..kE Aaka IL A1n1 &ka nAeAar nf<A
whom il is filed shall substitute the name OF
the person therein for the original nomi.
nee. by printing, II practicable, or by writ
ing the name Of the person thus substi-
tuted.
SEQ. 8. Not less than twenty-five days
before an election 10 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
maine OF the Office for which he is nomin-
ated, a. specified in the certificate OF
nomination filed with him.
SEC. u. Not less than ten days before
an election to fill any public Office or Of
fees, the County Clerk shall cause to be
published all the nominations certified to
or died 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
OF such paper before election day.
SEo. 10. Whena proposed Constitution, |
constitutional amendment or other ques-
is 10 be submitted for popular vote.
he Secretary OF State shall certify the
TO the several County Clerks, and said
Jounty Clerks shall publish the same as
for in section 9 of this Act,