The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-08-22
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
Full Text of Nevada's
Election Law.
Voters Should Read and Study
lis Provisions.
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.

AMI III MIMI cOLLl oECOhL
THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.
CApproved March 10, 1871
The People of the State of Nevada,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
SECTION l. All ballots cast in cleo
tions for public officers within this State
shall be printed and distributed at
expense, as hereinafter provided. The
printing of general tickets and cards of
instruction for the electors OF each
county, and the delivery of the same to
the election officers, as provided for in
this Act, shall be county charge, the
payment of which shall be provided
for in the same manner as the payment
of other county expenses, and in case
OF separate elections for city town or
district officers, the printing and deli
very of tickets and cards of 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 of other city,
county or district expenses.
Sec. 2. Any convention as herein
after defined, held for the purpose of
making nominations for public Office,
and also electors to the number here.
matter specified, may nominate candi-
dates for public offices, to be filled by
election within the State. A conven-
ton within the meaning of this Act is
nf al
representing political party, which,
at the last election, before the holding
Of such convention, polled at least 3
per cent OF the entire vote cast in the
State, county, district or other politi-
cal division, Tor which the nomination
il made.
Sec. 3.-All nominations made by
such convention shall be certified as
follows: The certificate of nomina-
tlon, which must be in writing, shall
contain the name of each person nomi-
mated, his residence and Office for which
he Is nominated, and shall designate
the party or principle which such con-
vention represents. II shall be signed
by the Chairman and Secretary of such
convention, who shall add to their sig
natures 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 certificate o; the said
oath shall be annexed to said certificate
of nomination.
SEQ. 4. A candidate for public office
may be nominated otherwise than by
convention in the manner following: A
certificate Of nomination containing the
name of the candidate to be nominated,
with the other information required to
DO given in the certificate provided for
In section of this Act, shall be signed
by electors residing within the district
or political division for which candi-
dates are to be presented, equal in num-
Der to at least 3 per cent OF the entire
vote cast at the last preceding election
in the State, district or political divis-
lon for which the nomination is to be
made; provided, that such certificate
shall not be valid unless signed by 3
voters. Said signatures need not all be
appended to one paper, but each slgner
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
best of his knowledge and belief, aud a
certificate OF such oath shall be annex
cd. Such certificate Of nomination
shall have the same effect as a certiti
cate of nomination made by a party
convention.
SEQ. S. Certificates of nomination o
candidates for offices to be voted for by
the electors of the entire State, shall b,
fled with the Secretary of State. Ger
tiicates of nomination of candidates
for all other public offices shall be flee
with the Clerks OF the respective coun
ties wherein the officers are to be vote,
for, and wherea district embraces NOR
than one county, such certificates shall
be filed with the Clerk of each OF sal
counties.
SEC. 6, No certificate Of nomination
shall contain the name of more thai
one candidate for each Office to be filled
No person shall join in nominating
under provision of sec. of this Ac
more than one nominee for each offic
to be filled, and no person who ha
voted In convention, either In perso
or by proxy, for or against candidai
for any Office, shall join in nominating
in any manner, any other nominee IL
that Office, and no person shall acceE
nomination to more than one offic
Sec. Z. Certificates of nomination +
quired to be filed with the Secretary
State shall be filed not more than six
days nor less than forty days before Il
day Of election when the nomination
made by convention, and not mo
than sixty days nor less than thirty da
before the day of election when t
nomination is made under the provi
ions Of section four Of this Act. Ger
ficates OF nomination required to be fill
with the County Clerks shall be fiji
not more than fifty days and not Ii
than thirty days before the day OF ele
ion, when the nomination is made b.
convention and not more than fifty d.
nor less than twenty days before the
of election, when the nomination
made under the provisions of sect
four of this Act. Should a vacancy
cur from any cause in the list
nominees for any office, such vacar
NAV be filed at any time before the
Of election by the convention, or b
committee to which the convention
delegated the power to fill vacancies,
by petitions, as provided in section +
Of this Act. The Chairman and Sec
tary OF the convention, or of such CO
miitee, or such petitioners. shall m
and Ale with the proper officer GER
cste. setting forth the name of the per
nominated TO fill such vacancy, the OF
for which he is nominated, the nam
the person for whom the new NOM
Il 10 be substituted, and such further
Donation aa ia required to be glvel