Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1894-12-08
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
Full Text of Nevada's New
Election Law.
yortss SHOULD READ AND srdoT ITS
PROVISIONS.
Fair. and Clean Elections In the
rusurc if the Law IL Observed.

AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
TIE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.
Approved March IS. 1871
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 public officers within this State shall
ma printed aud distributed at public ex-
psnss, as hereinafter provided. Ibe
printlng Of general tickets and cards OF
instruction for the electors OF each county,
and the delivery Of the same 10 the cleo
ton officers. as provided for in this Act.
shall be 9 county charge, the payment OF
which shall be provided for in the same
manner IS the payment OF other county
expenses, and in case OF separate eiections
for CITY, togn or district officers, the print
ing and delivery OF tickets aud cards OF
iu~s,ruction shall be charged upon the city,
town or district in which said tickets and
cards are to be used. the payment Oh
which shall be provided for in the same
manner as the pay ment OF other CITY,
county or district expenses.
SEc. 2. Any convention, as hereinafter
defined, held for the purpose OF making
nominations for public Office. and also
electors 10 the number hereinafter speci-
ded. may nominate candidates for public
Off ces, to be filled by election within the
State. A convention within the meaning
OF this Act 10 an organized assembisge OF
delegates representing 9 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 10
made.
SEC. 8. All nominations made By such
convention shall be certified IS follows:
The certificate OF nomination, which must
be in writing, shall contain the name oil
each person nominated, his residence and
ofice for which he 10 nominated, aud 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-
dencs, and make oath before an officer
authorized 10 administer the same. shat
the matters stated in such certificate are
true to the beat OF their knowledge and
belief, aud 8 certificate OF the said oath
shall be annexed 10 said certificate OF
nomination.
SEC. 4. A candidate for public Office
may be nominated otherwise than by q
onvention in the manner following: A
ertiicate 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 cen 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
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 10 the
best of his knowledge and belief, n q GER
tiicate OF such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate OF nomination shall have
the same effect ~ a certificate Of nomina.
ton made BY = party convention.
SEC. 5. Certificates of nomination OF
candidates for Offices to be voted for by
the eleotors OF the entire State, shall be
fled with the Secretary OF State. Certi'
fcates OF nomination of candidates for all
other public ofioes shall be fled with the
Clerks Of the respective counties wherein
the officers ara TO bs voted for. and where
q district embraces more than one county,
sach certificates shall be 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 in nominating. undo
the provision OF Section 4 Of this Act,
more than one nominee for each office to
be filled. and no person who has voted Ia
aconvension, either in person or by proxy
for or against . candidate for any office,
shall Join In nominating. IN any manner
any other nominee for that office. and nc
person shall accept Q nomination TO more
than one Office.
SEQ z. Certificates OF nomination re-
quired to be died 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 Il
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 Q ban cy occur
from any cause in the list Of nominees fol
any office. such vacancy may be filled at any
time before the day Of election by the con
v~ention. or by Q committee 10 which the
convention has delegated the power tc
fill vacancies. or by petitions. as provided
In section four OF this Act. The Chair
man and Secretary OF the convention, OF
OF such committee. or such petitioners
shall make and file with the proper Officer
.a~tdoafa sofffpU forth tbo papaa ~ the
person nomiuated to fill such vacancy, the
office for which lie Ia nominated, the name
of the person for whom the new nominee il
is TO be substituted, and such further infor.
nation as ia required to be given in an
original certificate Of nomin alton. When
such certificate ia filed. the officer with
whom Ii Is filed shall su bstitute the name OF
the person therein for the original nomi-
nee. by printing, IL practicable. or by writ
Ing the name OF the person thus substi-
tinted.
SEQ. 8. Not less than twenty five days
before an election to Gil any p5biic 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-
a.ed. a. specified in the certificate Of
nomination fled with him.
SEC. 9. Not less than ten days before
an election to fill any public Office oil Of
fees. the County Clerk shall oause TO be
published all the nominations certified to
or filed with him. Said nominations shall
be Published in q newspaper printed with
In the county. When no newspaper 10
printed within the county. the publication
shall be made by posting . copy Of the
ballot in Q public place in each election
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copies shall be posted at the courthouse
door. When publication 10 made by print
log in newspapers. at least two publications
by such newspapers shall be required. one
OF which shall appear 10 the last regular
iasua OF sueh paper before election day.