The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-11-07
iUSTRALI N BALLOT.
Full Text of Nevada's
Election Law.
Voters Should Read and Study
It's Provisions.
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS
AND TO MORE FULLY SECURE
THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.

Approved March 10, 1884,
The People of the State of Nevada,
in Senate and Assembly,
do enact AS follows:
SECTION l. All ballots cast ia 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 rs 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. conven-
ton within the meaning of this Act is
an organized assemblage of delegates
representing a political party, which,
at the last election, before the holding
of such convention, polled at least
per cent of the entire vote cast in the
State, county, district or other politi-
cal division. Tor which the nomination
is made.
SEC. 3.-All nominations made by
such convention shall be certified as
follows: The certificate of nomina-
ton, which must be in writing, shall
contain the name ofeach person nomi-
mated, his residence and Office for which
he Is nominated, and shall designate
the party or principle which such con-
vention represents. 1t shall be signed
by the Chairman and Secretary of such
convention, who shall add to their sig
natures their respective place. 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
aud belief, and a certificate OF 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
be given in the certificate provided for
in section Of this Act, shall be signed
by electors residing within he district
or political division for which candi-
dates are to be presented, equal in num-
Der to at least per cent OF the entire
vote cast at the last proceeding election
in the State, district or political divis-
ion for which the nomination is to be
made; provided, that such certificate
shall not be valid unless signed by 8
voters. Said signatures need no. 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
best Of his knowledge and belief, aud u
certificate OF such oath shall be annex
ed. Such certificate of nomination
shall have the same effect as certifi.
cate of nomination made by party
convention.
Sec. S. 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. Ger
tificates of nomination of candidates
for all other public Offices shall be filed
with the Clerks of the respective coun-
ties wherein the officers are to be voted
fer, and wherea district embraces more
than one county, such certificates shall
be fled with the 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 filed
No person shall join in nominating,
under provision of sec. Of this Act,
moro than one nominee for each office
to be filled, 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
nomination to more than one office.
Sec. Z. Certificates of nomination re-
quired to be filed with the Secretary of