Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1894-02-10
AUSTRALIAN BlLLOT'
Full Text of Nevada's New
Election Law.
VOTERS SHOULD READ AND sTsof ITS
PROVISIONS.
Fair and Clean Elections In the
Future if the law L. Observed.
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
THE 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 prin,ed and distributed at public ex-
pence, as hereinafter provided. Tho
printing OF general tickets and cards oil
instruction for the electors OF each county,
and the delivery Of the same TO the cleo
lion officers, as provided for in this Act,
shsll be a county charge, the payment oil
which shall be provided for in the same
hammer az the payment OF other county
expenses, and 10 case Of separate elections
for oity. tow or district officers, the print
ing and delivery OF tickets and 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 oil other CITY,
county or district expenses.
SIC. q. Any convention, az hereinafter
defined. held for the purpose Of making
nominations for public office, and also
electors 20 the number hereinafter speci-
fed. may nominate candidates for public
offices, to be flled by election within The
State. A convention within the meaning
OF this ACT Is an organized assemblsge OF
delegates representing 9 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 polit-
ical division, for which the nomination 10
made.
SEC. 8. All nominations made by such
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The certificate OF nomination, which must
be 10 writing, shall contain the name OF
each person nominated, his residence and
orice for which he is nominated, aud shall
designate the party or principle which
suoh convention represents. 1t shall be
signed by the Ohair man and Secretary Of
such convention, who shall add to their
signatures their respective places OF resi-
dence, and make oath before an officer
authorized TO administer the same, that
the matters stated in such certificate are
true to the beat OF their knowledge and
belief. and q certificate OF the said oath
shall be annexed 10 said certificate OF
nomination.
SEQ. 4. A candidate for public Office
may be nominated other wise than by q
invention in the manner following: A
ertifcate OF nomination containing the
name OF the candidate TO be nominated,
with the other information required to be
given 10 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
TO 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
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 to tho
beat Of his knowledge and belief. and a GER
tifoate OF such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate OF nomination shall have
the same effect as q certificate OF nomina-
tion made by Q 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-
fcates OF nomination Of candidates for all
other public Offices shall be filed with the
clerks OF the respective counties wherein
the officers are to be voted for. aud where
O district embraces more than one county,
buou ctT tluUhted budh 10 Aio WIN tuo
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
she provision OF Section 4 OF this Act.
more than one nominee for each Office to
be filed. and no person who has voted In
convention, 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 no
person shall accept Q nomination 10 more
than one office.
SEQ z. Certificates OF nomination re-
quired to be filed 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 . convention, and not more than
sixty days nor less than thirty days before
the day Of election when the nomination
10 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
all 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
q 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
ia to be substituted, and such further infor-
nation o. lie required to be given in an
original certificate OF nomin alton. When
such certificate ia filed, the officer with
whom ii IL filed shall substitute 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-
tuted.
$50. s. 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
name OF the Office for which he Ia nomin-
ated. ss specified in the certificate Of
nomination fled with him.
SEC. 8. Not less than ten days before
an election to fill any public Office or OF.
fees. the County Clerk shall cause 10 be
published all the nominations certified to
or hled with him. Said nomina atoms shall
be published in . 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 10 9 public place in each election
precinct within the county. one OF which
copies shall be posted at the courthouse
door. When publication Ia 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
issue Of such paper before election day.
Sec. 10. When a proposed Constitution,
constitutional amendment or other ques.
tion 10 30 be submitted for popular vote.
the Secretary OF State shall certify the
TO the several County Clerks. and said
County Clerks shall publish the same a.
provided for in section 9 Of this Act.
SEC. IL. II ahall be the duty Of the