Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1895-05-11
AUSTRALIAN BiLLOY'
Full Text of Nevada's New
Election Law.
yorsss SHOULD READ AND sTa0y ITS
PROVISIONS.
Fair and Clean Elections in the
r.,ure ~ the Law Is observed.
ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.

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 ss follows:
SECTION 1. All ballots cast in elections
mr. pnblic officers within this State shall
ne printed and distributed at public ex-
psnse. as hereinafter provided. The
printing Of general tickets aud cards OF
instruction for the electors OF each county
and the delivery OF the same 70 the eiec-
ton officers, as provided for in this Act,
shall be . county charge, the payment OF
which shall be provided for In the same
manner a. the payment OF other county
expenses, and in case Of separate elecfions
Tor oity. town or district O icers, the print
ing and delivery Of tickets and cards oil
instruction shall be charged upoL the city,
town or district in which said tickets
cards are to be used, the payment OF
which shall be provided for In the same
manner as the pay OF otner CITY
county or district expenses.
SKo. q. Any convention. ss hereinafter
eined, held for the purpose OF making
nominations for public office, and also
electors 20 the number hereinafter speci-
fed, may nominate candidates for pubic
offices, 10 be filed by election within she
State. A convention within the mesning
of this Act Is an organized sssemoisge OF
delegates representing q political parry,
which, at the last election, before the
holding Of such convention, polled al
least three per cent OF the entire vote cast
in the state, county, district or other point
ical division, for which the nomination Is
made.
SEC. 8. All nominations made BY such
convention shall be certified IS foilows;
The certificate OF nomination, which must
be in writing, shall contain the name OF
each person nomin ated. his residence and
office for which he 10 nominated, and shall
designate the party or principle which
such convention represents. 10 shall be
signsd by the Chair ian 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 best Of their knowledge and
belief, and 9 certificate OF the said oath
shall be annexed 10 said certificate Of
nomination.
SEo. 4. A candidate for public ofice
may be nominated other wise than by a
~onvention 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 In 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 10 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 GER tiicate shall not be valid unless
signed by three voters. Said signatures
need not ell 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
bsst OF his knowledge and belief, and a cer-
tihcate OF such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate Of nomination shall have
the same effect as q certificate OF nomina-
ton 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
fled with the Secretary Of State. Certi-
fcatss 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
q district embraces more than one county,
such 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 filed. No
person shall join in nominating, under
the provision Of Section 4 Of this Act.
- N~a than ann MINI a for aaNb nAiaa ~
be filed, and no person who has voted in
q convention, either in person or by proxy,
for or against q candidate for any Office,
shall join In nominating. in any tanner,
any other nominee for that office, and no
person shall accept q nomination 10 more
than one office.
SEo.7 Certificates OF nomination re-
quired 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 Ia
made by q convention, and not more than
sixty days nor less than thirty days before
the day Of election when the nomination
IL made under the provisions OF section
four OF this Act. Should a vacancy occur
from any cause in the list Of nominees for
any office, such vacancy may be filled al any
time before the day Of election by the CON-
vention, or by q 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
Q certificate, setting forth the name Of the
person nominated to fill such vacancy, the
office for which lie il nominated, the name
Of the person for whom the new nominee 10
ia to be substituted and such further infor.
nation as is required to be given in an
original certificate OF nomin alton. When
suoh certificate is filed, the officer with
whom ii is filed shall substitute the name OF
the person therein for the original nor.i.
nee. by printing, If practicable. or by writ
ing the name OF the person thus substi-
tuted.
SEC. 8. Not less thar 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 filed with him.
SEC. Q. Not less than ten days before
an election to fill M public Office or Of
fees, the County Clerk shall cause to be
published all the nominations certified to
or hled 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 a 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 ia made by print
ing in newspapers. tleast 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 proposed Constitution.
constitutional amendment or other ques-
ton is to be submitted for popular vote.
the Secretary OF State shall certify the
same TO the several County Clerks. and said