Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1894-12-01
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
Full Text of Mevada's New
Election Law.
VOTERS SHOULD READ AND sTsOr ITS
PROVISIONS.
Fair and Clean Elections I'm she
ra,ure ~ N Law L. Observed.
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
TIE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.

THE SECRECY VI The DALLOA'
Approved March IS, 1871
The People Of the State Of Nevada, rep
resented 10 Senate and Assembly, do en-
.ct as follows:
sxorroS 1. All ballots cast 10 elections
or public officers within this State shall
ne nrinted and distributed at public ex-
psnse. a. hereinafter provided. Inc
printing OF general tickets and cards OF
instruction for the electors OF each county
and the delivery OF the same to the eiec-
tion officers. a. provided for in this ACT.
shall be Q county charge. the payment OF
which shall be provided for In the same
name as the payment OF otner county
expenses, and in case OF separate elections
for oity, town or district officers, the print
ing and delivery OF tickets and cards of
i~ossruction shall be charged apo the city,
tovn or district In which said tickets and
cards are 70 be used. the payment OF
which shall be provided for In the same
manner as the pay ment OF other CITY,
county or district expenses.
SEC q. ANY convention. as hereinafter
defined, held for the purpose OF making
nominations for public office, and also
electors to the number hereinafter speci-
fed, may nominate candidates for pubic
offices, TO be filed BY election within the
State, A convention within the meaning
Of This Act Is an organized assemblsge 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 poiit-
ical division, for which the nomination 10
made.
SEQ. 8. All nominations made by such
convention shall be certified IS follows:
The certificate OF nomination, which must
bs 10 writing, shall contain the name OF
each person nominated, bis residence and
onica for which he is nominated. aud shall
designate the party or principle when
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 the beet OF their knowledge and
belief, and a certificate OF the said oath
shall be annexed 10 said certificate oil
nomination.
SEQ. A.. A candidate for public Office
may be nominated otherwise than by Q
onvention in the manner following: A
erifcate Of nomination containing the
name OF the candidate TO be nominated,
with tho other Information required to be
given in the certificate provided for 10 Sec
ton three Of this Act, shall be signed bJ
e~lessors 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 tbs last preceding election in the State,
district or political division for which the
nominstion il to be made; provided. that
such certificate shall not be valid unless
signed by three voters. Said ~signatures
need not sl be appended to one paper. bu.
each signer shall add to his signature his
place Of residence. One Of the signers Of
each such certificate shall swear that tho
statements therein made are true to the
best Of his knowledge aud belief, anda GER
tifcate OF such oath shall be annexed.
Sach certificate OF nomination shall have
the same effect as a certificate of nomins-
ton made BY Z party convention.
SEC. s. Certificates OF nomination OF
candidates for offices TO be voted for by
the electors OF the entire State, shall be
fled with the Secretary of State. Certi-
icatss OF nomination Of candidates for all
othsr public office shall be fled with the
Clerks OF the rss peotive COUNTIES wherein
the officers are to be voted for, and where
adistrict embraces more than one county,
such certificates shall bs filed with the
CLERK OF each OF said counties.
SEQ. 8. No certificate OF nomination
shall contain the name Of more than one
candidate for each Office to be filled. No
person shall join 10 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
a~convention, either In person or by proxy.
- - wfnak . na.11ta Tor am nfEaa
shall join In nominating. Ia any manner,
any other nominee for that office. and no
person shall accept q nomination TO more
than one office.
Scot Certificates OF nomination re-
quired to be filed with the Secretary OF
State shall not be filed more than sixty
dsys nor less han 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
Ia made under the provisions OF section
four Of this Act. Should . 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
vention, or by . committee to which the
convention has delegated the power to
fill vacancies, or by petitions, as provide ed
in section four Of this Act. The Chair
man aud 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 10 fill such vacancy, the
office for which lie Is nominated. the name
OF the person for whom the new nominee is
il 10 be substituted, and such further infor.
nation as is required TO be given in an
original certificate Of nomination. When
such certificate is filed, the officer with
whom IL ia filed shall substitut To the name OF
The person therein for the ori yinal nomi
nae. by printing, il practicable. or by writ
ing the nam Of the person thus substi-
tuted.
SEQ. 8. 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-
ated. as specified in the certificate Of
nomination fled with him.
SEC. 8. Not loss than ten days before
an election to fill any public Office or Of
foes. the County Clerk shall cause to be
Published all the nominations certified to
or died With him. Said nominations shall
bs published in q newspaper printed with
in the county. When no newspaper 10
prin ted 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 n newspapers. stIeAst two publications
BY such newspapers shall be required. one
OF which shall appear in the last regular
Issue Of such paper before election day.
SEQ. 10. When a proposed Constitution.
constitutional amendment or other ques.
tioa Is to be submitted for popular vote.
the Secretary OF State shall certify the
sane TO the several County Clerks. and said
n..atu ClosLa ahaII nnhIiah the aama "A