Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1894-01-27
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
Text of Nevada's New
Election Law.
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Fair aud Clean Elections I'm the
rutwre if the Law IL Observed.

AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.
Approved March Is. 1911
The People Of the State OF Nevada rep
resented In Senate and Assembly do en-
act as follows:
SECTION 1. All ballots cast in elections
or nublio officers within this State shall
ne printed and distributed at public ex-
pense, as hereinafter provided. inc
printing Of general tickets and cards oil
Instruction for the electors OF each county,
and the delivery OF the same TO the elec-
siou officers, a. provided for in this Act.
shall be 9 county charge, the payment OF
which shall be provided for In the same
hammer az the payment OF other county
expenses, and in case of separate elections
for oity. 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 and
cards are 10 be used, the payment oil
which shall be provided for in the same
manner as the payment OF other city,
county or district expenses.
SEC. L. Auy
defined, held for the purpose Of making
nominations for public office, aud also
electors 10 the number hereinafter speci-
6ed. may nominate candidates for public
Offices. TO be filed by election within the
State. A convention within the meaning
OF this 40. is an organized assem bisge OF
delegates representing q political party
which, at 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-
ical division, for which the nomination IL
made.
SEC. 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 aud
Office for which he ia nominated, aud shall
designate the party or principle which
suoh 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 officer
authorized 10 administer the same, that
the matters stated in such certificate are
true to the best OF their knowledge and
bolief, and a certificate OF the said oath
shall be annexed 10 said certificate OF
nomination.
SEQ. 4. A candidate for public Office
may be nominated otherwise b by n
invention in the manner following: A
ertidcate OF nomination containing the
name OF the candidate TO be nominated,
with the other information required to be
given in the certificate provided for 10 Sec
ton three OF This Act, shall be signed by
electors residing within the district or
political division for which candidates are
10 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 is to be made; provided. that
suoh certificate shall not be valid unless
signe 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
beat OF hia knowledge and belief, and a GER
tiioate OF such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate OF nomination shall have
ths same effect as a certificate Of nomins-
ton 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-
fcates OF nomination of candidates for all
other public offices shall be filed with thu
Clerks OF the respective COUNTIES wherein
the officers are TO be voted for, and where
q district embraces more than one county,
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